Hidden on the back side of the Print Shop Color Apple II disk is a series of dynamic artworks by Print Shop developer Martin Kahn. They are quite something, considering the extremely primitive nature of [more…]
Paleotronic had a chat with prolific teletext artist Steve Horsley, aka Horsenburger, about how and why he got into teletext art. Thanks for agreeing to answer our questions! When did you first encounter teletext? What [more…]
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…]
Any computer that was going to use a command line interface desperately needed a character set, and despite their ultimate monstrous graphical capabilities, Commodore’s machines were no exception. As was usually the case (cf. SHARPSCII, [more…]
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