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Have a Retro-Holiday with the Print Shop Club!

December 20, 2021 paleotronic 0

Make your own Christmas and holiday cards using the original Apple II version of The Print Shop with no emulators or downloads required at theprintshop.club Created by David Balsam and Martin Kahn, The Print Shop [more…]

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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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In a digital world, what is art?

September 28, 2020 paleotronic 0

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…]

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The Artistic Worlds of CD-ROM

September 28, 2020 paleotronic 0

The multimedia boom of the 1990s saw an influx of computer programs released on compact discs. With the extra storage allowed by the format, games could begin to provide gamers with a far richer experience [more…]

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Build a No-Slot MIDI Interface on the Apple ][ Game I/O Socket

July 5, 2020 paleotronic 0

In today’s world of plug-and-play peripheral devices, it is difficult to understand the fundamentals of what is happening at the lower levels.  How does the computer connect to the device?  How does it communicate with [more…]

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Lasers, Discs and Dragons: Remembering Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair

June 6, 2020 paleotronic 0

When animator Don Bluth agreed to animate an obscure laserdisc videogame tentatively titled “The Dragon’s Lair”, little did he know it would become one of his biggest successes… Dragon’s Lair… Dragon’s Lair… ah yes Dragon’s [more…]

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The Business of Computer Graphics: Desktop Publishing and Computer-Aided Design

June 2, 2020 paleotronic 0

HOW TO MAKE MONEY USING COMPUTERS… sounds like the title of a bargain book, but in the late 1980s it was a dream-come-true for many a budding desktop publisher. Or it was for some of [more…]

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Mario Paint: Trying to make the Super Nintendo ‘productive’…

June 2, 2020 paleotronic 0

The graphics and music in videogames may be an art-form all their own but while videogame consoles provide their owners with an opportunity to appreciate them, they are not generally designed to also give those [more…]

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Videotex: An Early Experiment in Art Delivered Digitally

June 2, 2020 paleotronic 0

So, we’ve seen that digital creativity in the 1980s had a few avenues that could be explored: Logo let you draw to the screen programatically with the turtle, you could paint on the CRT with [more…]

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Paleotronic’s Light Pens and Plotters

June 2, 2020 paleotronic 0

So, it’s 1983 and you’ve saved up and bought yourself a shiny new computer with state-of-the-art graphics capabilities, and you’re ready to become a digital Picasso. But then you realise the only way you can [more…]

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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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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Two: 1981

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Our second instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas includes the ZX81, TI99/4A. BBC Micro and more… Click on each image for the full-sized copy or download the PDF Version

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