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GORF: The Great Oz Retro-Technology Festival

February 12, 2019 paleotronic 0

Spend four days enjoying the company of other retro-technology enthusiasts at GORF: the Great Oz Retro-Fest, at Urban Camp in Melbourne, Australia from April 24th-28th 2019. Modelled after the wildly-successful US KansasFest event, GORF is [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas (Combined Download)

December 26, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our tour of electronic Christmas gifts past has concluded, but if you missed it, don’t worry! You can catch up by downloading all of the episodes in a single file via the link below. Download [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Eight: 1987

December 17, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our eighth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Commodore Amiga, Atari XEGS, Yamaha SHS-10 Keytar and plans for an electronic Christmas tree! Click on each image for the [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Seven: 1986

December 15, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our seventh instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Atari 7800, Sega Master System, the Color Computer 3 and more! Click on each image for the full-sized copy or [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Six: 1985

December 12, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our sixth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Atari ST, Commodore 128, The Goonies, Knight Rider and Teddy Ruxpin! Also, the eighth wonder of the world: The Clapper. [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Three: 1982

December 6, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our third instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas includes ET: The Extra Terrible, the Colecovision, Spectrum, Commodore 64 and much, much more… Click on each image for the full-sized copy or download the PDF Version [more…]

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Retro Reviews: Commodore 64 accessories!

November 30, 2018 paleotronic 0

uCassette + tapDancer Loading tape games on a C64 can be a hassle.  Assuming you can find a working datasette for the system, the chances are that a lot of tapes have degraded to the [more…]

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Viva Amiga! An Interview with a Sound Tracker

July 4, 2018 paleotronic 0

Background While the SID chip in the Commodore 64 was a classy piece of tech, it was really complicated to program. If you were a budding musician but not a serious chip hacker, your options [more…]

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A 1980s Quantum Link to a modern-day Mutiny

July 1, 2018 paleotronic 0

Visitors to the Commodore booth at the 1986 Consumer Electronics Show were not only introduced to the newly restyled Commodore 64C and GEOS, but also a colourful new information service called Quantum Link. Typical 1980s [more…]

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Atari 800 vs. Commodore 64 – The Brief Tale of Two 8-Bit Home Computers

June 30, 2018 paleotronic 0

The Commodore 64, introduced at the 1982 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, was a significant improvement on the VIC-20, and would become the best-selling computer model of all time. In early 1981, Commodore-subsidiary MOS Technology began [more…]

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Released in 1980, the VIC-20 was the world’s first low-cost computer, at a list price of under US$300. Compared to other computers of the time, the VIC-20 had a tiny memory (5 kilobytes) and an [more…]

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Modelled after the wildly-successful US KansasFest event, GORF is an ‘unconference’ that brings together 8 and 16-bit computer enthusiasts, classic console hackers and arcade collectors to celebrate a pivotal era in the development of modern electronics in a communal ‘stay and play’ environment where attendees sleep over at the venue.

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