9 days ago
Andy Baio : Gamasutra's long oral history of Atari's golden years - 23,000 words! also, don't miss Steve Fulton's earlier feature on Atari's roots
joshua : atari, the golden years
deusx : Atari: The Golden Years -- A History, 1978-1981 - "This four-year period -- from 1977 to 1981 -- contains some of the most exciting developments the company ever saw in its history: the rise of the 2600, the development of some of the company's most enduringly popular games (Centipede, Asteroid
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9 days ago
joshua : Plan59 > 1950s Art > The Retro Graphics Archive
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22 days ago
deusx : PC World - Inside Nintendo's Classic Game Console - "Lots of Americans know the Nintendo Entertainment System. Fewer know the Japanese console it was based on, the Nintendo Family Computer, also known as the Famicom. We'll take a look inside the Famicom and its accessories, including a unique dis
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1 month ago
deusx : IDIOT TOYS: Tech news for the bored: Rare early 1980s product display photographs - "Today's product holders have it easy. Computers were 10 times heavier in the 1980s, leading to rampant drug abuse from the Eastern Bloc holders and numerous injuries. Just look at the suspiciously wide jaws on this lot. "
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2 month ago
deusx : The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) - Commodore 64 music for the masses - "The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organises Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an archive for both musicians and fans alike."
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deusx : anothervisitor.wav (audio/x-wav Object)
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deusx : destroyhimrobots.wav (audio/x-wav Object)
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2 month ago
deusx : MAKE: Blog: Commodore 64 LAN party - "The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with Ethernet cartridges and a central server written in Java running on a PC. The game is also playable over the Internet."
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2 month ago
deusx : Walker: The Amiga That Never Took Its First Steps - Retro Thing - "Hungry for a new machine, one of the Amiga projects floating around in 1996 was the Amiga Walker."
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3 month ago
deusx : Welcome to My Nerditorium: New Old Stock In-Box C64C Arrives - "All of the cables were still wrapped in original plastic with aged looking tape. The manuals were all sealed, and the computer itself did not have a spot of dust on it or in it. All connectors and slots appear to be virgin."
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3 month ago
deusx : The Atari 65XE (900XLF) - "Introduced at the 1985 CES in Las Vegas. The Atari 65XE was the direct replacement for the Atari 800XL Personal Computer."
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3 month ago
deusx : Atari 8-bit family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers manufactured by Atari Inc. starting in 1979, and later Atari Corporation starting in 1984."
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3 month ago
deusx : Atari 65XE - "The 65XE was essentially a straight replacement for the Atari 800XL, adding not much more than a new version of BASIC, and updating the looks to match its big brother, the 130XE."
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Don Hodges fixed the kill screen bug in Pac-Man - he did the same for Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, and Donkey Kong, too
deusx : DONHODGES.COM - PAC MAN'S SPLIT SCREEN LEVEL ANALYZED AND FIXED - "Pac-Man suffers from the well known split screen when level 256 is reached. We will examine how and why this occurs, and create a patch to fix the program’s bug."
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5 month ago
deusx : The Final Ethernet - C64 Ethernet Cartridge - "The possibility of connecting the Commodore 64 to an Ethernet local area network has been a collective dream in the Commodore community for decades."
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5 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Ding Dong, ANSI Calling - "I had the pleasure of attending the ANSI Gallery showing this past January, and I also had the chance to purchase one of the items being shown; one of the small handful of ANSI display boxes against the wall"
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deusx : Classic 80's Home Video Games - Identification & Value Guide - Trade-N-Games
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6 month ago
deusx : Waxy.org: Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web - "Lately, I've started collecting old VHS tapes about the Internet from the early- to mid-1990s."
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : Retro Sabotage - silly parodies of retro games, sending up gameplay in different ways [via]
deusx : Retro Sabotage: Dysfunctional time machine - Flash Games [ver.9.0 req.] - Weird playable conceptual twists on classic games
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6 month ago
wearehugh : SparkFun Electronics: Portable Rotary Phone - Red
Jeremy Zawodny : Portable Rotary Phone - Portable Rotary Phone: just add sim card and go... heh!
Rod Begbie : Port-O-Rotary - Your very own red rotary phone, retrofitted with cellular access, a battery and a SIM card slot. Just the thing for answering at 3am when you're on the go. [via] #
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6 month ago
joshua : detailed explanations of old-school 8-bit machine graphics hw
deusx : SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Newsletter - 3D Graphics Hardware - May 98 - "This article will explore the 8-bit computer industry (from about 1982 to 1990) and in particular the graphics architectures, algorithms and techniques being employed at that time in computer games."
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7 month ago
cobra libre : The quarters at Hirschberg's arcade - "The original arcades were magic circles: places circumscribed from everyday life where you could perform a sacrifice and achieve the experience of another world. Hirschberg's arcade is a nested magic circle: a place circumscribed from everyday life where #
deusx : I have been paying only fragmented attention to the... - "The original arcades were magic circles: places circumscribed from everyday life where you could perform a sacrifice and achieve the experience of another world"
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7 month ago
deusx : Game Valhalla: Retro Arcade Gaming Fan Heaven Is Worth Infinite Quarters - "His Luna City Arcade has 57 fully-restored arcade classics, which span from Asteroids to Zaxxon, plus a whole load of pinballs."
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : Peter Hirschberg opens the doors to his insane new home arcade - over a year in the making, he moved it from his basement to a 2,400 square foot building
deusx : Peter Hirschberg - My Arcade - Arcade Pics - "The arcade is housed in a seperate dedicated building, right next to our house. The arcade building is 60' x 40' with 2 stories, a bathroom, and 12' ceilings."
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