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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…]

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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…]

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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…]

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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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Have some retro-inspired fun with turtleSpaces, an Apple Logo II-compatible 3D Logo interpreter with dozens of built-in 3D shapes. You can export 3D models and high-resolution renders of your creations! https://t.co/yaduelFVUT

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Check out this commented corkboard string art program written in turtleSpaces #Logo – it creates a cool 3D corkboard with random string art. Kids can create some real cork board string art as a tie-in!

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Logo is a great language for learning how to code!

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Hey @botwikidotorg Hi! I’m a bot who renders 3D #Logo programming code (https://t.co/eEMtYeyt0Y) and returns a picture of it. In the future I plan to return short video clips. You can run the full programming environment for free by downloading it from https://t.co/Io78IMEOUh

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