Computers Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/computers/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png Computers Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/computers/ 32 32 146320098 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again! http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/#respond Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:06:25 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=15904 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/feed/ 0 15904 The Scourge of Windows Millennium Edition http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/09/the-scourge-of-windows-millennium-edition/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/09/the-scourge-of-windows-millennium-edition/#respond Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:00:41 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14506 MSDOS-based versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 95 and Windows 98, had notorious stability problems, due in large part to their mixing of 16-bit and 32-bit application code (in order to maintain compatibility with [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/09/the-scourge-of-windows-millennium-edition/feed/ 0 14506 Loading… Ready, RUN for your life! http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/08/loading-ready-run-for-your-life/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/08/loading-ready-run-for-your-life/#respond Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:00:52 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14492 Welcome to our computer laboratory of horrors! Come as we take a tour of some of 8-bit computing’s most unloved monstrosities. Our terrors today come in two categories: First, you may not know this, but [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/08/loading-ready-run-for-your-life/feed/ 0 14492 Gremlins, Goonies and Ghostbusters: A Trio of Terrifying Movie Games http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/05/gremlins-goonies-and-ghostbusters-a-trio-of-terrifying-movie-games/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/05/gremlins-goonies-and-ghostbusters-a-trio-of-terrifying-movie-games/#respond Sun, 04 Oct 2020 14:00:44 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14464 The 1980s are famous for its horror-action-comedy movies, three of the most well-recognised being Gremlins, Goonies and Ghostbusters. Of course, given their popularity, they all had computer games made for them as well! Let’s take [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/05/gremlins-goonies-and-ghostbusters-a-trio-of-terrifying-movie-games/feed/ 0 14464 A Nightmare on Retro Street: Horror at Home http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/02/a-nightmare-on-retro-street-horror-at-home/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/02/a-nightmare-on-retro-street-horror-at-home/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:00:52 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14422 People love to be scared, and the forms of media we consume reflect that. From Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein to Capcom’s Resident Evil series, audiences have actively sought out fear in its various incarnations. It’s [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/02/a-nightmare-on-retro-street-horror-at-home/feed/ 0 14422 The Business of Computer Graphics: Desktop Publishing and Computer-Aided Design http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/the-business-of-computer-graphics-desktop-publishing-and-computer-aided-design/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/the-business-of-computer-graphics-desktop-publishing-and-computer-aided-design/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2020 06:38:31 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=12569 HOW TO MAKE MONEY USING COMPUTERS… sounds like the title of a bargain book, but in the late 1980s it was a dream-come-true for many a budding desktop publisher. Or it was for some of [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/the-business-of-computer-graphics-desktop-publishing-and-computer-aided-design/feed/ 0 12569 Paleotronic’s Pirate Booty http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/paleotronics-pirate-booty/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/paleotronics-pirate-booty/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2020 05:50:43 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=12534 Early computer and videogame magazines often featured comics. Here’s a few we’ve found researching for our articles…

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/paleotronics-pirate-booty/feed/ 0 12534 Paleotronic’s Light Pens and Plotters http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/paleotronics-light-pens-and-plotters/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/paleotronics-light-pens-and-plotters/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2020 05:31:42 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=12513 So, it’s 1983 and you’ve saved up and bought yourself a shiny new computer with state-of-the-art graphics capabilities, and you’re ready to become a digital Picasso. But then you realise the only way you can [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/06/02/paleotronics-light-pens-and-plotters/feed/ 0 12513 The Amazing Amiga http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/18/the-amazing-amiga/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/18/the-amazing-amiga/#respond Sat, 18 Jan 2020 03:11:17 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=10278 The Amiga represented an evolutionary leap forward in computing’s creative potential. While colour computer graphics were not a new invention, the Amiga provided a video mode capable of displaying 4096 colours – previously unprecedented in [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/18/the-amazing-amiga/feed/ 0 10278 The Story of Jack and Jay: An 8-Bit Fairy Tale http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/12/the-story-of-jack-and-jay-an-8-bit-fairy-tale/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/12/the-story-of-jack-and-jay-an-8-bit-fairy-tale/#respond Sun, 12 Jan 2020 04:44:47 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=10177 Once upon a time… …in a land far away lived Jack and Jay. Jack was the Commander of an armada known as  Commodore, while Jay was a Grand Wizard in the royal court of the [more...]

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