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A Tongue-In-Cheek Look Back at Broderbund’s ‘The Print Shop’

August 20, 2019 paleotronic 0

In the early 1980s, if you wanted posters to advertise a yard sale or a party, your options were pretty limited. You could get some blank sheets of paper and some crayons or felt markers [more…]

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The Tech Class: The Computer Enters the 1980s Classroom

April 9, 2019 paleotronic 0

School kids today may all have tablets, but in the early 1980s you were lucky if your classroom had its own computer! More likely, there was only one (or maybe two) for the entire school. [more…]

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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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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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The Big Cheese: How a Pizza Rat changed the image of video arcades from famously fiendish to family friendly

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Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell was facing a serious conundrum. His ‘video computer system’, a cartridge-based home video-game console designed to play versions of popular Atari arcade games, was certain to be a big hit, but [more…]

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