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The Theremin: Sounds from Outer Space… and the future

May 4, 2019 paleotronic 0

It was 1927, the height of the Roaring Twenties and America had well-and-truly shaken off the yoke of Victorian conservatism, embracing more liberal social and artistic norms. The relatively recent technologies of audio amplification and [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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The Business: Apollo Executive Group

April 9, 2019 paleotronic 0

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organise and measure the [more…]

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An Interview with Atari 2600 developer and Imagic Co-Founder Rob Fulop

March 29, 2019 paleotronic 0

Paleotronic had the great fortune to chat with Atari 2600 developer and Imagic co-founder Rob Fulop about life as a rockstar videogame developer in the early 1980s, and what came after. We’ve read in other [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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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 Mystery of the Missing Moon Tapes

January 29, 2019 paleotronic 0

A desire to have the moon walk broadcast during prime-time US viewing hours, after the moon set there,  meant that NASA would have to rely on a dish in a sheep paddock in Australia to [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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Read our Holiday issue Free!

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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microM8 Update: Introducing microTracker

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 Sound was never the Apple II’s strong suit – designed in the mid-1970s, it came with a simple ‘beeper’ that could typically only produce simple sound effects, and certainly not music of any reasonable [more…]

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