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deusx : Marshall Alexander - "Growing up in the seventies and eighties, my childhood memories basically consist of videogames, bright plastic toys and TV cartoons. Any time that was left I spent drawing and programming games for my Commodore 64. At a later age a few of my childh
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deusx : Molten Core - Gamer’s University » Games - "Gamer’s University Games Proudly (finally) Presents… An April Fools joke you thought was dead… Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft THE MOLTEN CORE"
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Andy Baio : Bad Hacks, a repository of vulgar ROM hacks - including Super Nazi Bros., and Naked Metroid, and Zelda as erotic fanfic [via]
deusx : Bad Hacks - "If you came here hoping to find a well executed difficulty hack for Super Mario World, a lovingly crafted graphics hack of Zelda 3 or maybe an accurate translation of a Japanese RPG, prepare to be disappointed. This site solely caters for crass muti
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deusx : Inside the Commodore 64 - PC World - "This pioneering PC made instant geeks out of millions of people back in the 80s. But what lies within the Commodore 64's fetching brown shell?"
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deusx : pagetable.com » Blog Archive » Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows - now Open Source - "Today, we are releasing Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language - it works on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 (Intel and PowerPC), and you even get the source, so you can adapt it to other operating systems and CPUs."
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deusx : Atari 8Bit and Mac - Atari800MacX - "This is the home page of the Macintosh OS X Port of David Firth's Fantastic Atari 800 Emulator. I have ported the SDL version of the Atrari800 emulator to Mac OS X, and added a full native Cocoa interface, including Preferences, Menus, File Ass
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deusx : ATARI SDrive - "The SDrive is a device that connects to Atari XL/XE's serial (SIO) port and simulates an Atari floppy disk drive with full read/write access to programs and data stored on a SecureDigital flash card (SD)."
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1 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : Oldskooler Ramblings - The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind [via]
deusx : The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler Ramblings - "The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is
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2 month ago
joshua : Category:Obsolete biological theories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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3 month ago
deusx : The Stupid Gamer » Extremely rare Atari 2700 prototype sells on eBay - "It’s pretty awesome seeing ultra rare and collectable stuff show up for sale, and this one is a true gem. Earlier today, an Atari 2700 prototype sold on eBay for over $5,000. It sounds crazy that someone would bid that much, but the winning bidder
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3 month ago
deusx : Atari 2700 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Atari 2700 (also referred to as the Atari Remote Control VCS) was an unreleased console by Atari. Intended for release in 1981, its main standout features were wireless controllers that featured a combination of a joystick and paddle. The fire b
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3 month 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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3 month ago
joshua : Plan59 > 1950s Art > The Retro Graphics Archive
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4 month 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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4 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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5 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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5 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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6 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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6 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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6 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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6 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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6 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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7 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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