The Oregon Trail is an 3490 km route from Kansas City, Missouri to the Willamette Valley in what was the Oregon Territory, now Oregon State. The trail covers the modern-day American states of Kansas, Nebraska, [more…]
by Melody Ayres-Griffiths Trick or treaters had been coming and going all night, but their flow had slowed to a trickle after the skies over Schenectady, New York had opened up, drenching anyone who dared [more…]
We have a Hallowe’en-themed electronic project for you: a motion-activated “screaming” audio generator for your Jack O’Lantern or other spooky decoration. Ghosts, goblins and integrated circuits? Electronic devices are a fairly common part of Hallowe’en [more…]
As a child born in the seventies and who grew up in the eighties one of my biggest memories is of the long running BBC science fiction show Doctor Who. It was pretty much always [more…]
No other video game franchise screams Halloween more than Castlevania. 33 years of Dracula whipping fun, quirkiness and extreme frustration has spanned more than 30 game releases of hunter versus vampire killing across various arcade, [more…]
In 1999, the Internet went nuclear over an Macromedia Flash animation that allowed the user to microwave a cartoon gerbil until it exploded! Joe Cartoon was a website created by Joseph Shields that featured crude [more…]
The words “electroshock therapy” tend to conjure images of darkened rooms in insane asylums where inmates are mercilessly tortured via electrocution. But this is largely an unfair construction of Hollywood movies and television shows, out [more…]
As this issue of Paleotronic magazine is Halloween themed, being asked to write an article discussing the history of arcade horror games fits perfectly, even if you are not a big fan on the horror [more…]
MSDOS-based versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 95 and Windows 98, had notorious stability problems, due in large part to their mixing of 16-bit and 32-bit application code (in order to maintain compatibility with [more…]
Welcome to our computer laboratory of horrors! Come as we take a tour of some of 8-bit computing’s most unloved monstrosities. Our terrors today come in two categories: First, you may not know this, but [more…]
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