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Introducing The Print Shop Club!

July 13, 2021 paleotronic 0

We’re working on a new web-based Apple II emulator (a fork of microM8) called CyanIIde, and we realized that you can do nifty things with browser-based emulators, such as generate and download PDF files of [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again!

December 14, 2020 paleotronic 0

Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more…]

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Loading… Ready, RUN for your life!

October 8, 2020 paleotronic 0

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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Pumpkin’ Playas: More Tricks than Treats

October 7, 2020 paleotronic 0

Pac-Man was the hottest arcade game of 1981 and Atari saw an opportunity to capitalise on it with a VCS version… By the end of that year, people had pumped more money into Pac-Man machines [more…]

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Kill a Happy Face: The Mayhem of MIDI Maze, the first FPS

September 28, 2020 paleotronic 0

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…]

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The Story of Jack and Jay: An 8-Bit Fairy Tale

January 12, 2020 paleotronic 0

Once upon a time… …in a land far away lived Jack and Jay. Jack was the Commander of an armada known as  Commodore, while Jay was a Grand Wizard in the royal court of the [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Returns!

December 14, 2019 paleotronic 0

Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more…]

Atari

Christmas Lemmings!

December 13, 2019 paleotronic 0

My task, should I accept (and you did – Ed) was to write an article about Christmas Lemmings as a segue into Lemmings in general. The reason behind this, is simply to meet my brief [more…]

Atari

Top Ten Retro Party Games!

December 10, 2019 paleotronic 0

At the time of writing, the holidays are almost upon us. At this time of year we usually have friends over for some food, talk and games. This is where it gets a bit awkward, [more…]

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A Bicycle Named Stella

October 11, 2019 paleotronic 0

The second prong of Bushnell’s two-pronged effort to bring arcade games to more children was a secret project codenamed Stella. In 1975 Atari had successfully converted its smash-hit Pong arcade machine into a home version, [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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Confessions of a Disk Cracker: the secrets of 4am.

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Why did you choose to start aggressively de-protecting, archiving and re-distributing Apple II software? It’s tempting to rewrite history and give myself some noble purpose for starting this hobby, but in this case the truth [more…]

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