When animator Don Bluth agreed to animate an obscure laserdisc videogame tentatively titled “The Dragon’s Lair”, little did he know it would become one of his biggest successes… Dragon’s Lair… Dragon’s Lair… ah yes Dragon’s [more…]
HOW TO MAKE MONEY USING COMPUTERS… sounds like the title of a bargain book, but in the late 1980s it was a dream-come-true for many a budding desktop publisher. Or it was for some of [more…]
The graphics and music in videogames may be an art-form all their own but while videogame consoles provide their owners with an opportunity to appreciate them, they are not generally designed to also give those [more…]
So, we’ve seen that digital creativity in the 1980s had a few avenues that could be explored: Logo let you draw to the screen programatically with the turtle, you could paint on the CRT with [more…]
Early computer and videogame magazines often featured comics. Here’s a few we’ve found researching for our articles…
So, it’s 1983 and you’ve saved up and bought yourself a shiny new computer with state-of-the-art graphics capabilities, and you’re ready to become a digital Picasso. But then you realise the only way you can [more…]
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