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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