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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again!

December 14, 2020 paleotronic 0

Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [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…]

Apple II

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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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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Flying to the Moon and crashing back to Earth: the meteoric rise and fall of Imagic

March 20, 2019 paleotronic 0

Upon viewing Moonsweeper for the first time the word ‘wow’ just doesn’t seem to do it justice, yet it’s the first word to form in most people’s brains. It just seems to trite, so simple, [more…]

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Live from the Moon: One Giant Transmission for Humankind

January 25, 2019 paleotronic 0

The impact the live broadcast of the Moon walk had on the populace of Western countries cannot be overstated. Witnessing such a momentous event live made people feel they were a part of it, and [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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No Software Required: How Atari Made Its First Video Games Without A Computer

October 5, 2018 paleotronic 0

In the early 1970s, computers were expensive! Like, really expensive, man! So if you were a young Nolan Bushnell entranced by Spacewar and you wanted to bring it to the masses, how could you do [more…]

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From the Computer Lab to the Arcade: The Journey of Space War

September 25, 2018 paleotronic 0

Paul Monopoli takes a look back at the very first video game, and its influence on what would become one of the world’s most popular pasttimes. In 1961 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was to [more…]

Education

Radio Waves: How the Wireless Made Television

September 17, 2018 paleotronic 0

So you’ve invented a video camera (or a scanner) and you’ve got something to reproduce the picture on, but how do you get the signal from one to the other? Well, you could do it [more…]

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

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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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