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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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Android Dreams: The Werewolf of Schenectady

June 2, 2019 paleotronic 0

“Your ghost stories don’t scare me…” Jamie Silicon’s voice betrayed a certain lack of confidence, and his older sister seized on it like a wolf lunging for a rabbit. “Did you know that one night, [more…]

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Lunar Rangers: Discovering just what, exactly, the Moon was made of…

May 24, 2019 paleotronic 0

Before one could land on the Moon, one needed to learn more about it. What was  the surface made of? What was the terrain like? Where would we land? The Ranger missions hoped to assist [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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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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The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions, lunar science-fiction, and dreams of a future there…

February 20, 2019 paleotronic Comments Off on The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions, lunar science-fiction, and dreams of a future there…

What better to watch the Moon landing on than your brand-new 1969 television set? RCA, Magnavox and Zenith all debuted new TV lines that year, each with their own unique selling point. Televisions themselves were [more…]

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Rockets and Rovers: Getting to the Moon and getting around on its surface

February 7, 2019 paleotronic 0

Getting the Apollo spacecraft all the way to the moon was going to take power – a lot of power. And to build a rocket of such magnitude was going to take a great deal [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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So it’s fair to say we might have gone a little crazy tricking out the turtle in microM8‘s OpenGL Apple Logo implementation… New Graphical Primitives: Wireframe: Reminder: SETPC color – sets the ‘pen’ colour SETPOPA [more…]

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