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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…]

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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…]

Atari

Arcade Rats on the Moon!

February 27, 2019 paleotronic 0

During the 1960s the world was experiencing space fever. It was an ailment for which there was no cure, nor did anybody want one. During the 1950s the United States and Soviet Union had sent [more…]

Space

The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions, lunar science-fiction, and dreams of a future there…

February 20, 2019 paleotronic Comments Off on The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions, lunar science-fiction, and dreams of a future there…

What better to watch the Moon landing on than your brand-new 1969 television set? RCA, Magnavox and Zenith all debuted new TV lines that year, each with their own unique selling point. Televisions themselves were [more…]

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GORF: The Great Oz Retro-Technology Festival

February 12, 2019 paleotronic 0

Spend four days enjoying the company of other retro-technology enthusiasts at GORF: the Great Oz Retro-Fest, at Urban Camp in Melbourne, Australia from April 24th-28th 2019. Modelled after the wildly-successful US KansasFest event, GORF is [more…]

Apple II

New microM8 release supports WOZ2, DHGR artifacting

February 12, 2019 paleotronic 0

The latest microM8 release supports the Applesauce WOZ2 format, has improved DHGR rendering (with NTSC artifacting) and a refactored VM manager for increased speed and better reliability, among a number of other fixes and enhancements. [more…]

Space

Rockets and Rovers: Getting to the Moon and getting around on its surface

February 7, 2019 paleotronic 0

Getting the Apollo spacecraft all the way to the moon was going to take power – a lot of power. And to build a rocket of such magnitude was going to take a great deal [more…]

Computers

Gadget Graveyard: The IBM System/360

February 4, 2019 paleotronic 0

In the early days of computing, all computers were in effect personal computers – only one person could use them at a time! In the beginning, it was like using a calculator: you entered in [more…]

Computers

Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of the Telephone (1977)

January 30, 2019 paleotronic 0

While researching for our magazine we sometimes find nuggets buried by time that have been forgotten by the Internet. This particular nugget was found in the May 1977 issue of Creative Computing. Science fiction author [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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The Pro Shop: CRTs in Medicine

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Back in the 1950s, when your surgeon wasn’t concentrating on his golf swing, he was probably concentrating on his cardioscope – or at least you hoped he was! The cardioscope was essentially a specialised oscilloscope [more…]

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