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Apple II

Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas (Combined Download)

December 26, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our tour of electronic Christmas gifts past has concluded, but if you missed it, don’t worry! You can catch up by downloading all of the episodes in a single file via the link below. Download [more…]

Consumer Electronics

Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Twelve: 1991

December 24, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our twelfth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Super Nintendo, Sonic the Hedgehog and Lemmings! Click on each image for the full-sized copy or download the PDF Version

Computers

Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Eleven: 1990

December 24, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our eleventh instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the TurboGrafx 16, Super Mario 3, Populous and the Macintosh LC.  Click on each image for the full-sized copy or download [more…]

Atari

Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Ten: 1989

December 23, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our tenth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Sega Megadrive / Genesis, handheld consoles, funky joysticks, Tetris and much more! Click on each image for the full-sized copy [more…]

Nintendo

Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Nine: 1988

December 20, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

Apple II

Spending a Retro-Christmas with microM8

December 19, 2018 paleotronic 0

Christmas graphics and sound demos were common software for 1980s home computers. Most of them were public domain and circulated by users groups, while there were a few commercial offerings, such as the Ziggy Christmas [more…]

Computers

A Christmas Cover Story: 55 Classic Computer and Video Game Magazine Covers

December 18, 2018 paleotronic 0

December was a big time for 1980s computer and video-game magazines. Their shiny covers stood out at newsagents and magazine stands, hoping to encourage Christmas shoppers to purchase them as stocking stuffers for friends, relatives [more…]

Atari

Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Eight: 1987

December 17, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our eighth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Commodore Amiga, Atari XEGS, Yamaha SHS-10 Keytar and plans for an electronic Christmas tree! Click on each image for the [more…]

microM8

microM8 Update: Some microLink services are now active…

December 16, 2018 paleotronic 0

microLink has been around for a while, but it hasn’t really done anything (well). However, it’s recently been upgraded, and now has functional message forums, chat rooms and ten ‘cloud emulators’ that allow for multi-user [more…]

Apple II

Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Seven: 1986

December 15, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our seventh instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Atari 7800, Sega Master System, the Color Computer 3 and more! Click on each image for the full-sized copy or [more…]

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A 1980s Quantum Link to a modern-day Mutiny

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Visitors to the Commodore booth at the 1986 Consumer Electronics Show were not only introduced to the newly restyled Commodore 64C and GEOS, but also a colourful new information service called Quantum Link. Typical 1980s [more…]

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