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The Lunar Code: Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer

June 9, 2019 paleotronic 0

  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…]

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Surviving on the Moon in Millennium 2.2

April 30, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

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1980s 8-Bit 3D Adventures with Freescape

April 26, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

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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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Lunarcy: A Lunar Lander in Apple Logo

March 16, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

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A New Lunar Lander for the ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000

March 14, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

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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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Gadget Graveyard: The IBM System/360

February 4, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

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Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of the Telephone (1977)

January 30, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

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The Diskee: Apollo’s most important crewmember

January 22, 2019 paleotronic 0

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

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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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