Uncategorized Archives - Paleotronic Magazine http://paleotronic.com/category/uncategorized/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Mon, 12 Oct 2020 02:14:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png Uncategorized Archives - Paleotronic Magazine http://paleotronic.com/category/uncategorized/ 32 32 146320098 The Oregon Trail of DEATH! http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/17/the-oregon-trail-of-death/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/17/the-oregon-trail-of-death/#respond Sat, 17 Oct 2020 01:58:17 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14847 The Oregon Trail is an 3490 km route from Kansas City, Missouri to the Willamette Valley in what was the Oregon Territory, now Oregon State. The trail covers the modern-day American states of Kansas, Nebraska, [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/17/the-oregon-trail-of-death/feed/ 0 14847 Tut-Tut – a new game for the ZX Spectrum http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2019 06:58:16 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=8693 (Editor’s Note: David has also created a ZX81 version of Tut-Tut which is available from his blog: https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/2019/10/zx81-game-tut-tut.html) It’s coming to the end of 1921’s digging season in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Your excavations have [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/feed/ 0 8693 BBSes: Partying Online Like It’s 1989 http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/04/bbses-partying-online-like-its-1989/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/04/bbses-partying-online-like-its-1989/#respond Wed, 04 Sep 2019 03:22:53 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=6638 While the Internet would eventually bring computer-based telecommunications to the masses, by the late 1980s more tech-savvy individuals were already meeting new people and having all sorts of discussions ‘on-line’ – and in some cases [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/04/bbses-partying-online-like-its-1989/feed/ 0 6638 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Nine: 1988 http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/20/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-year-nine-1988/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/20/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-year-nine-1988/#respond Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:51:00 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2870 Our ninth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Nintendo Entertainment System (it really became popular in 1988!), Mario, all sorts of arcade games like Afterburner, and the Korg [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/20/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-year-nine-1988/feed/ 0 2870 Arrgh Me Hearties: 1980s Pirates’ Letters of Marque http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/31/arrgh-me-hearties-1980s-pirates-letters-of-marque/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/31/arrgh-me-hearties-1980s-pirates-letters-of-marque/#respond Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:12:07 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1982 Yo Ho Ho and a Box of Copied Floppies! Here be a proverbial rogues’ gallery of clippings just in time for Hallowe’en from 1980s computer magazines such as Byte, Analog, Creative Computing, CoCo Mag, Computers [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/31/arrgh-me-hearties-1980s-pirates-letters-of-marque/feed/ 0 1982 We See Facts: The BBC’s Ceefax Teletext Service http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/09/we-see-facts-the-bbcs-ceefax-teletext-service/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/09/we-see-facts-the-bbcs-ceefax-teletext-service/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:49:20 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1714 In the 1960s, the BBC experimented with the idea of broadcasting a newspaper to hard-copy printers in homes during the early hours of the morning. It worked by rasterising (converting into lines) text, sending it [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/09/we-see-facts-the-bbcs-ceefax-teletext-service/feed/ 0 1714 The Bard’s Inn: The First Graphical Role-Playing Games http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/07/the-bards-inn-the-first-graphical-role-playing-games/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/07/the-bards-inn-the-first-graphical-role-playing-games/#respond Sun, 07 Oct 2018 01:48:11 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1704 RPGs, no, it’s probably not what your thinking of – rocket propelled grenades.  Although those kind of RPG’s sure are cool and a very useful weapon in today’s current gaming environment.  What RPG stands for [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/07/the-bards-inn-the-first-graphical-role-playing-games/feed/ 0 1704 The Entertainment Centre: CRT Television Through the Years http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/21/the-entertainment-centre-crt-television-through-the-years/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/21/the-entertainment-centre-crt-television-through-the-years/#respond Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:00:38 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1498 One of the original televisions offered for sale at the start of UK television service in 1936, the Marconi model 702 had such a long cathode-ray tube that it needed to be stood on end, [more...]

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