Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:49:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/ 32 32 146320098 Web-based Applesoft BASIC and Apple Merlin Editors now available… http://paleotronic.com/2022/08/06/web-based-applesoft-basic-and-apple-merlin-editors-now-available/ http://paleotronic.com/2022/08/06/web-based-applesoft-basic-and-apple-merlin-editors-now-available/#respond Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:49:53 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=22527 We’ve created two new web-based interfaces for our cyanIIde Apple II webassembly emulator! The first allows you to load and edit Applesoft BASIC programs using a CodeMirror-based editor with syntax highlighting and colon line separation. [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2022/08/06/web-based-applesoft-basic-and-apple-merlin-editors-now-available/feed/ 0 22527 Have a Retro-Holiday with the Print Shop Club! http://paleotronic.com/2021/12/20/have-a-retro-holiday-with-the-print-shop-club/ http://paleotronic.com/2021/12/20/have-a-retro-holiday-with-the-print-shop-club/#respond Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:22:15 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=19279 Make your own Christmas and holiday cards using the original Apple II version of The Print Shop with no emulators or downloads required at theprintshop.club Created by David Balsam and Martin Kahn, The Print Shop [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2021/12/20/have-a-retro-holiday-with-the-print-shop-club/feed/ 0 19279 cyanIIde Web-Based Apple IIe Emulator http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/28/cyaniide-web-based-apple-iie-emulator/ http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/28/cyaniide-web-based-apple-iie-emulator/#respond Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:43:20 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=17861 cyanIIde is a subset of our microM8 Apple II emulator meant to run on lower-power systems such as the Raspberry Pi and in the browser. This page contains an early release of the WebAssembly version. [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/28/cyaniide-web-based-apple-iie-emulator/feed/ 0 17861 Run BBC BASIC… on the Apple II! http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/22/run-bbc-basic-on-the-apple-ii/ http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/22/run-bbc-basic-on-the-apple-ii/#respond Thu, 22 Jul 2021 02:25:43 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=17803 The BBC Microcomputer made by Acorn UK apparently has a central API by which its language ROMs communicated with the hardware inside the computer. This means that by creating a series of shims, one can [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/22/run-bbc-basic-on-the-apple-ii/feed/ 0 17803 Introducing The Print Shop Club! http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/13/introducing-the-print-shop-club/ http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/13/introducing-the-print-shop-club/#respond Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:20:07 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=17716 We’re working on a new web-based Apple II emulator (a fork of microM8) called CyanIIde, and we realized that you can do nifty things with browser-based emulators, such as generate and download PDF files of [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/13/introducing-the-print-shop-club/feed/ 0 17716 Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Programming Language (Part 1) http://paleotronic.com/2021/05/22/past-and-future-turtles-the-evolution-of-the-logo-programming-language-part-1/ http://paleotronic.com/2021/05/22/past-and-future-turtles-the-evolution-of-the-logo-programming-language-part-1/#respond Fri, 21 May 2021 19:31:07 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=17300 When I was a young child, one of my best friends was a turtle. Not a real turtle, although that would have been fun, but a virtual one. My turtle lived inside of an Apple [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2021/05/22/past-and-future-turtles-the-evolution-of-the-logo-programming-language-part-1/feed/ 0 17300 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 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 The Devilish Case of the Portable Computer http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/16/the-devilish-case-of-the-portable-computer/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/16/the-devilish-case-of-the-portable-computer/#respond Fri, 16 Oct 2020 01:47:52 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14839 by Melody Ayres-Griffiths Trick or treaters had been coming and going all night, but their flow had slowed to a trickle after the skies over Schenectady, New York had opened up, drenching anyone who dared [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/16/the-devilish-case-of-the-portable-computer/feed/ 0 14839 Halloween Electronics Project: Screaming Jack http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/15/halloween-electronics-project-screaming-jack/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/15/halloween-electronics-project-screaming-jack/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2020 01:25:41 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14828 We have a Hallowe’en-themed electronic project for you: a motion-activated “screaming” audio generator for your Jack O’Lantern or other spooky decoration. Ghosts, goblins and integrated circuits?  Electronic devices are a fairly common part of Hallowe’en [more...]

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