While Asian manufacturers were feverishly working on perfecting videotape, American RCA was working on a videodisc system – not a laserdisc system, which did not contact the surface of the disc, but instead a system [more…]
Realising that an entity of pure logic might pose a threat to humanity, science fiction author Isaac Asimov penned the above three laws for robots… they seem sensible enough, but what if, when the time [more…]
People love to be scared, and the forms of media we consume reflect that. From Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein to Capcom’s Resident Evil series, audiences have actively sought out fear in its various incarnations. It’s [more…]
In the beginning, there was the void. The void was black nothingness. Then, there was the pixel. It was white (or orange, or green) and there could be more than one of them (but all [more…]
What is art? It’s not an easy question to answer, as art being a form of expression is open to interpretation by the individual. Historically art has been defined by something physical, a painting, or [more…]
Charting the rise of Nolan Bushnell’s Atari from its humble beginnings building arcade game, to a Warner owned company that turned over billions of dollars in sales. The Atari story is a lesson in the [more…]
The following is an excerpt from the machine learning guide to computation self expression, the origins of this enlightening yet cautionary tale are unknown, as the bytes have been passed down from motherboard to daughterboard, [more…]
By 1983 the consumer was spoiled for choice when it came to purchasing a home micro-computer. Apple, Atari and Commodore all had their own systems in the mix, along with those from smaller companies. With [more…]
In the previous two issues of Paleotronic I have written about RPG games, their origins, the games credited with being the first of their kinds on home computers in the RPG video gaming category. Midi [more…]
There are five senses: touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. Computers have always been tactile – you have to touch them in order to use them (at least until relatively recently.) You can twiddle knobs, [more…]
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