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Month: March 2019

Apple II

microM8 Update: High-Contrast UI Mode and Filled Triangles in microLogo

March 30, 2019 paleotronic 0

We love our colour text but it can be difficult for visually impaired people to read, many of whom chose the Apple II back in the day because it didn’t have multi-coloured text or background [more…]

History

An Interview with Atari 2600 developer and Imagic Co-Founder Rob Fulop

March 29, 2019 paleotronic 0

Paleotronic had the great fortune to chat with Atari 2600 developer and Imagic co-founder Rob Fulop about life as a rockstar videogame developer in the early 1980s, and what came after. We’ve read in other [more…]

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Flying to the Moon and crashing back to Earth: the meteoric rise and fall of Imagic

March 20, 2019 paleotronic 0

Upon viewing Moonsweeper for the first time the word ‘wow’ just doesn’t seem to do it justice, yet it’s the first word to form in most people’s brains. It just seems to trite, so simple, [more…]

Apple II

Lunarcy: A Lunar Lander in Apple Logo

March 16, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

Coding

A New Lunar Lander for the ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000

March 14, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

Apple II

There’s a 3D Flying Dragon inside microM8’s [Applesoft] microBASIC Interpreter!

March 12, 2019 paleotronic 0

It made a sort of logical sense that if our microM8 Apple II emulator rendered in 3D (it does) and it had its own Applesoft-compatible BASIC interpreter (it does), we should make a 3D graphics [more…]

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microM8 Update: Super Hi-Res (SHR) support

March 11, 2019 paleotronic 0

John Brooks’ VidHD video card for the Apple II renders Apple II graphics in 1080p, but it also allows the Apple IIe to use the Apple IIGS’s colour-indexed Super High-Resolution modes (320×200 and 640×200). So [more…]

Announcements

Issue 5 Update: Creative Computing

March 6, 2019 paleotronic 0

In order to free up some time to organise GORF, the release of issue 5 has been delayed until Q2 2019. In the meanwhile, here’s some of what we’re working on for the next issue: [more…]

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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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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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