moon Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/moon/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sun, 09 Jun 2019 01:13:33 +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 moon Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/moon/ 32 32 146320098 The Lunar Code: Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer http://paleotronic.com/2019/06/09/the-lunar-code-inside-the-apollo-guidance-computer/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/06/09/the-lunar-code-inside-the-apollo-guidance-computer/#respond Sun, 09 Jun 2019 01:13:33 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4703   The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a fascinating design for its time, and demonstrated many concepts that would take hold be used for many years to come. The 512Khz master signal (derived from a [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/06/09/the-lunar-code-inside-the-apollo-guidance-computer/feed/ 0 4703 Android Dreams: The Werewolf of Schenectady http://paleotronic.com/2019/06/02/android-dreams-the-werewolf-of-schenectady/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/06/02/android-dreams-the-werewolf-of-schenectady/#respond Sun, 02 Jun 2019 04:03:23 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4642 “Your ghost stories don’t scare me…” Jamie Silicon’s voice betrayed a certain lack of confidence, and his older sister seized on it like a wolf lunging for a rabbit. “Did you know that one night, [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/06/02/android-dreams-the-werewolf-of-schenectady/feed/ 0 4642 Lunar Rangers: Discovering just what, exactly, the Moon was made of… http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/24/lunar-rangers-discovering-just-what-exactly-the-moon-was-made-of/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/24/lunar-rangers-discovering-just-what-exactly-the-moon-was-made-of/#respond Fri, 24 May 2019 07:09:05 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4568 Before one could land on the Moon, one needed to learn more about it. What was  the surface made of? What was the terrain like? Where would we land? The Ranger missions hoped to assist [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/24/lunar-rangers-discovering-just-what-exactly-the-moon-was-made-of/feed/ 0 4568 Surviving on the Moon in Millennium 2.2 http://paleotronic.com/2019/04/30/surviving-on-the-moon-in-millennium-2-2/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/04/30/surviving-on-the-moon-in-millennium-2-2/#respond Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:07:14 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4312 You just don’t see good old space simulators like this one for computers now-adays. If you have not heard of or played Millennium 2.2 before, it’s everything that’s good about being stuck on a lonely [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/04/30/surviving-on-the-moon-in-millennium-2-2/feed/ 0 4312 Lunarcy: A Lunar Lander in Apple Logo http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/16/lunarcy-a-lunar-lander-in-apple-logo/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/16/lunarcy-a-lunar-lander-in-apple-logo/#respond Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:44:33 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3752 Lunarcy is a fun and simple lunar lander game written in Apple Logo and compatible with microM8’s microLogo, a vector-based OpenGL re-implementation. You control a lander with a joystick (or the keyboard’s arrow keys) and you [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/16/lunarcy-a-lunar-lander-in-apple-logo/feed/ 0 3752 A New Lunar Lander for the ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000 http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/14/lunar-lander-for-the-zx81-timex-sinclair-1000/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/14/lunar-lander-for-the-zx81-timex-sinclair-1000/#respond Thu, 14 Mar 2019 05:17:08 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3716 In late 1972, as Apollo Space Missions were winding down a burgeoning virtual space race was busily preparing for launch. A sub-genre of simulation games soon to be known as Lunar Landers was taking to [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/14/lunar-lander-for-the-zx81-timex-sinclair-1000/feed/ 0 3716 The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions, lunar science-fiction, and dreams of a future there… http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/20/the-moon-tube-1969-televisions-lunar-science-fiction-and-dreams-of-the-future/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:35:30 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3446 What better to watch the Moon landing on than your brand-new 1969 television set? RCA, Magnavox and Zenith all debuted new TV lines that year, each with their own unique selling point. Televisions themselves were [more...]

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]]> 3446 Rockets and Rovers: Getting to the Moon and getting around on its surface http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/07/rockets-and-rovers-getting-to-the-moon-and-getting-around-on-its-surface/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/07/rockets-and-rovers-getting-to-the-moon-and-getting-around-on-its-surface/#respond Thu, 07 Feb 2019 05:48:04 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3339 Getting the Apollo spacecraft all the way to the moon was going to take power – a lot of power. And to build a rocket of such magnitude was going to take a great deal [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/07/rockets-and-rovers-getting-to-the-moon-and-getting-around-on-its-surface/feed/ 0 3339 The Mystery of the Missing Moon Tapes http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/29/the-mystery-of-the-missing-moon-tapes/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/29/the-mystery-of-the-missing-moon-tapes/#respond Tue, 29 Jan 2019 03:08:52 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3243 A desire to have the moon walk broadcast during prime-time US viewing hours, after the moon set there,  meant that NASA would have to rely on a dish in a sheep paddock in Australia to [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/29/the-mystery-of-the-missing-moon-tapes/feed/ 0 3243 Live from the Moon: One Giant Transmission for Humankind http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/25/live-from-the-moon-one-giant-transmission-for-mankind/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/01/25/live-from-the-moon-one-giant-transmission-for-mankind/#respond Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:17:10 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3210 The impact the live broadcast of the Moon walk had on the populace of Western countries cannot be overstated. Witnessing such a momentous event live made people feel they were a part of it, and [more...]

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