The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a fascinating design for its time, and demonstrated many concepts that would take hold be used for many years to come. The 512Khz master signal (derived from a [more…]
You just don’t see good old space simulators like this one for computers now-adays. If you have not heard of or played Millennium 2.2 before, it’s everything that’s good about being stuck on a lonely [more…]
Last issue of Paleotronic, my article on RPG games focused on the birth of RPG games on home computers. It looked at how they were heavily turn based text adventures, inspired by the likes of [more…]
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…]
Lunarcy is a fun and simple lunar lander game written in Apple Logo and compatible with microM8’s microLogo, a vector-based OpenGL re-implementation. You control a lander with a joystick (or the keyboard’s arrow keys) and you [more…]
In late 1972, as Apollo Space Missions were winding down a burgeoning virtual space race was busily preparing for launch. A sub-genre of simulation games soon to be known as Lunar Landers was taking to [more…]
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…]
In the early days of computing, all computers were in effect personal computers – only one person could use them at a time! In the beginning, it was like using a calculator: you entered in [more…]
While researching for our magazine we sometimes find nuggets buried by time that have been forgotten by the Internet. This particular nugget was found in the May 1977 issue of Creative Computing. Science fiction author [more…]
Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong’s tense two-word report came over the loudspeakers at NASA’s Mission Control in Houston, more of a question than a statement as he and and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin rapidly descended [more…]
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