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The Bard’s Inn: The First Graphical Role-Playing Games

October 7, 2018 paleotronic 0

RPGs, no, it’s probably not what your thinking of – rocket propelled grenades.  Although those kind of RPG’s sure are cool and a very useful weapon in today’s current gaming environment.  What RPG stands for [more…]

Atari

No Software Required: How Atari Made Its First Video Games Without A Computer

October 5, 2018 paleotronic 0

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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Going Back in History to Swat Bugs: microM8’s New Web-Based Time-Bending Debugger

October 4, 2018 paleotronic 0

Call it the ‘butterfly debugger’. People at KansasFest 2018 were excited by the development possibilities of microM8’s ‘rewind’ feature – the one that lets you cheat at games by going back before you made a [more…]

Apple II

Colour Without Colour: Apple II Computer Graphics

October 3, 2018 paleotronic 0

Released in 1977, the Apple II was one of the first personal computers marketed towards households rather than businesses. It was a complete computer – it had a keyboard for data entry and the ability [more…]

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An Interview With ZX Spectrum Designer Richard Altwasser

October 1, 2018 paleotronic 0

Richard Altwasser is a British engineer responsible for the hardware design of the ZX Spectrum. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge with an engineering degree in 1978, he was hired by Sinclair Research in 1980. [more…]

Computers

Colour Clash: The Engineering Miracle of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

September 29, 2018 paleotronic 0

April 1982 saw the launch of Sinclair Research’s most successful micro-computer, the ZX Spectrum. The Spectrum was not the first Sinclair computer to make it big, it was however the the first to go massive. In [more…]

Apple II

Ancient Tongues: Logo Spacewar!

September 27, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

Features

From the Computer Lab to the Arcade: The Journey of Space War

September 25, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

Consumer Electronics

The Crystal Ball: CRT ‘Innovation’ Flops

September 23, 2018 paleotronic 0

Telephone Television The “Space Phone” built into some Zenith System 3 TVs from the 1970s to the 1990s unfortunately didn’t let you call space, but it did let grandma call her grandkids without having to [more…]

Consumer Electronics

The Entertainment Centre: CRT Television Through the Years

September 21, 2018 paleotronic 0

One of the original televisions offered for sale at the start of UK television service in 1936, the Marconi model 702 had such a long cathode-ray tube that it needed to be stood on end, [more…]

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Read our Holiday issue Free!

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

turtleSpaces 3D Logo Interpreter

turtleSpaces is a new expanded implementation of LCSI Apple Logo II that features 3D OpenGL graphics, shapes, lights, cameras, location detection, multiple turtles and much, much more! Great for teaching kids how to code. Check it out at turtlespaces.org

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Atari 800 vs. Commodore 64 – The Brief Tale of Two 8-Bit Home Computers

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The Commodore 64, introduced at the 1982 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, was a significant improvement on the VIC-20, and would become the best-selling computer model of all time. In early 1981, Commodore-subsidiary MOS Technology began [more…]

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