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The Oregon Trail of DEATH!

October 17, 2020 paleotronic 0

The Oregon Trail is an 3490 km route from Kansas City, Missouri to the Willamette Valley in what was the Oregon Territory, now Oregon State. The trail covers the modern-day American states of Kansas, Nebraska, [more…]

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Tut-Tut – a new game for the ZX Spectrum

November 5, 2019 paleotronic 0

(Editor’s Note: David has also created a ZX81 version of Tut-Tut which is available from his blog: https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/2019/10/zx81-game-tut-tut.html) It’s coming to the end of 1921’s digging season in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Your excavations have [more…]

Computers

BBSes: Partying Online Like It’s 1989

September 4, 2019 paleotronic 0

While the Internet would eventually bring computer-based telecommunications to the masses, by the late 1980s more tech-savvy individuals were already meeting new people and having all sorts of discussions ‘on-line’ – and in some cases [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Nine: 1988

December 20, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our ninth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Nintendo Entertainment System (it really became popular in 1988!), Mario, all sorts of arcade games like Afterburner, and the Korg [more…]

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Arrgh Me Hearties: 1980s Pirates’ Letters of Marque

October 31, 2018 paleotronic 0

Yo Ho Ho and a Box of Copied Floppies! Here be a proverbial rogues’ gallery of clippings just in time for Hallowe’en from 1980s computer magazines such as Byte, Analog, Creative Computing, CoCo Mag, Computers [more…]

History

We See Facts: The BBC’s Ceefax Teletext Service

October 9, 2018 paleotronic 0

In the 1960s, the BBC experimented with the idea of broadcasting a newspaper to hard-copy printers in homes during the early hours of the morning. It worked by rasterising (converting into lines) text, sending it [more…]

History

The Bard’s Inn: The First Graphical Role-Playing Games

October 7, 2018 paleotronic 0

RPGs, no, it’s probably not what your thinking of – rocket propelled grenades.  Although those kind of RPG’s sure are cool and a very useful weapon in today’s current gaming environment.  What RPG stands for [more…]

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The Entertainment Centre: CRT Television Through the Years

September 21, 2018 paleotronic 0

One of the original televisions offered for sale at the start of UK television service in 1936, the Marconi model 702 had such a long cathode-ray tube that it needed to be stood on end, [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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