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Month: October 2018

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Arrgh Me Hearties: 1980s Pirates’ Letters of Marque

October 31, 2018 paleotronic 0

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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Horsen Around: An Interview with Teletext Artist Horsenburger

October 30, 2018 paleotronic 0

Paleotronic had a chat with prolific teletext artist Steve Horsley, aka Horsenburger, about how and why he got into teletext art. Thanks for agreeing to answer our questions! When did you first encounter teletext? What [more…]

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It’s Not Just Your Lawn: Why Retro-Computing Belongs To Their Future, Not Your Past.

October 29, 2018 paleotronic 0

Recently we experienced some negative feedback on a public forum from an individual who took issue with our exuberance in announcing new features in microM8, calling them unimportant or defective, accusing us of stealing some [more…]

Consumer Electronics

The Adventures of Captain Midnight: An Early History of Pay TV Scrambling

October 28, 2018 paleotronic 0

While the advertising model adopted by free-to-air television more than covered station-owners costs, media companies have always searched for solutions aimed at getting viewers to pay for programming directly. Telemeter was one such solution. An [more…]

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microM8 Update: Apple II+ emulation and SpiraDisc support

October 27, 2018 paleotronic 0

Once again, Apple II super-cracker 4am has provided us with a challenge. SpiraDisc was a complicated copy-protection system used with some Apple II games such as Frogger and Jawbreaker to prevent piracy. Every quarter-rotation of [more…]

Consumer Electronics

Women in Tech: Rosie the Riveter becomes Tracy the TV Assembler

October 21, 2018 paleotronic 0

During the Second World War, American women were recruited to fill factory roles previously occupied by men who had gone off to fight in Europe and in the Pacific. While many of these roles involved [more…]

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Point & Click: Welcome to Macintosh

October 18, 2018 paleotronic 0

A large, rectangular canvas bag sits in the middle of a huge oaken conference table, a gaggle of journalists assembled around it, while Steve Jobs talks Walkman. “It’s amazing”, Jobs says, “only about that thick.” [more…]

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The Wonder from Down Under: The Fairlight CMI Digital Sampling Synthesiser

October 16, 2018 paleotronic 0

After Sydney-native Peter Vogel graduated from high school in 1975, his classmate Kim Ryrie approached him with the idea of a creating a computer microprocessor-driven electronic musical synthesiser. Ryrie was frustrated with his attempts at [more…]

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The Noise Channel: Hearing and Cheering the AY-3-8910

October 12, 2018 paleotronic 0

THE ARCADE games of the 1970s used dedicated circuits for sound – even the sound chip in the Atari 2600 only had a set of pre-defined sound effects and an oddly-tuned tone generator. Realising that [more…]

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CP/M, GEOS, Dazzle Draw come to microM8

October 11, 2018 paleotronic 0

The latest release of microM8 includes a few new features. First, GEOS is now usable inside microM8. Quoting Wikipedia: “GEOS (Graphic Environment Operating System) is a discontinued operating system from Berkeley Softworks (later GeoWorks). Originally [more…]

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Our Holiday issue explored The Print Shop, Christmas and Party games and much, much more!

turtleSpaces 3D Logo Interpreter

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Electrons in Motion: CRTs in Aircraft

November 16, 2018 0

Cathode-ray tubes weren’t just useful for radar – all sorts of aircraft indicators were displayed with them. For example, CRTs were used in the displays of radio detection finders, which used radio “beacons” broadcasting from [more…]

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