spacewar Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/spacewar/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Fri, 05 Oct 2018 02:16:59 +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 spacewar Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/spacewar/ 32 32 146320098 No Software Required: How Atari Made Its First Video Games Without A Computer http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/05/no-software-required-how-atari-made-its-first-video-games-without-a-computer/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/05/no-software-required-how-atari-made-its-first-video-games-without-a-computer/#respond Fri, 05 Oct 2018 02:15:08 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1668 In the early 1970s, computers were expensive! Like, really expensive, man! So if you were a young Nolan Bushnell entranced by Spacewar and you wanted to bring it to the masses, how could you do [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/05/no-software-required-how-atari-made-its-first-video-games-without-a-computer/feed/ 0 1668 Ancient Tongues: Logo Spacewar! http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/27/ancient-tongues-logo-spacewar/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/27/ancient-tongues-logo-spacewar/#respond Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:00:34 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1526 You can duke it out with a friend, but be careful not to fall into the star in this exclusive Spacewar clone written in Apple Logo. Seymour Papert’s Logo programming language is perfect for a [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/27/ancient-tongues-logo-spacewar/feed/ 0 1526 From the Computer Lab to the Arcade: The Journey of Space War http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/25/from-the-computer-lab-to-the-arcade-the-journey-of-space-war/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/25/from-the-computer-lab-to-the-arcade-the-journey-of-space-war/#respond Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:00:42 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1520 Paul Monopoli takes a look back at the very first video game, and its influence on what would become one of the world’s most popular pasttimes. In 1961 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was to [more...]

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