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- A Glimpse of the Elusive ‘Time Bandit’ for the Sanyo MBC 550
- My First Computer Thought It Was a Sewing Machine
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- An Inside Look At OS/2…And Why It Failed
- A Phone Call I’ve Remembered These 28 Long Years…
- One of the Finest iPad Apps Is No More – Thanks for the Update, Twitter
- The Tandy CoCo to Get Its Own ‘Soul of a New Machine’
- Susan Kare’s 32×32 Pixels of Steve Jobs…On My Flesh and Forever
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- Christmas Morning, 1979 — A Pivotal Moment Captured on Film
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Games
- A New Photo Panorama of The “Byte Cellar” for 2012
- Liber809 – The Motorola 6809 Gets a New Platform
- CFFA3000 for Apple II: Look Ma, No Disks!
- My First Printer. What Was Yours?
- Glowing Pixels Replace Swirls of Paint at the Smithsonian
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- Derek Etnyre on Found Photo: Me and My Apple QuickTake 200 Camera
- Piku on My First “Homepage” and Email “Sigs” of Olde
- Piku on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- Marc Johnson on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
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- Marc Johnson on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C | Byte Cellar on An Apparent Keyboard Geek Finally Learns to Type
- Karl Olinde on “Picasso” Macintosh Logo Poster
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- Seems Twitter Ticker does not run on orig iPad with 5.1.1. Shame, I like it better than Trickle. The latter will do, tho. 07:39:28 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
- So I let iTunes update my iPad 1 from 5.0.1 to 5.1.1 -- and I’m in a cyclical cannot restore scenario. I should have left well enough alone. 06:56:17 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
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- Is Sony trying to grab defeat out of the jaws of victory? 05:37:26 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
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- I must’ve been in the loo. So iOS 7 comes with a flashlight app? 05:12:11 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Correction: This is the SIXTH Apple Store coming w/ in 30 mins of home (I’m in Alexandria, VA) — not the fifth. 04:20:10 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Nice, a fifth Apple Store is coming to my area. (All within 30 mins (most within 15 mins) of my house.) http://t.co/WXclB78VlW 04:13:03 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
- The voice in the new Apple TV spots sounds a little bit like Ben Affleck. 03:47:43 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
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Monthly Archives: March 2007
distellamap: Atari 2600 code brought into view
A few weeks ago I ran across an extremely cool nod to retro computing, but wanted to wait to pass it along until I had one in my hands to show. I am referring to Ben Fry’s distellamap project. Having … Continue reading
Posted in Atari, Gaming
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Found New Time Bandit for Atari ST Retail Pacakge
Ever since I first played it back on my Atari 520ST back in 1986, I’ve loved the game Time Bandit. A few weeks ago, at the request of a reader, I scanned the game’s short manual that I’d kept all … Continue reading
The NeGcon: Gaming with a Twist
My last post concerned my Wipeout collection. As any Wipeout fan is aware, when it comes to getting champion track times, the 4-way digital pad is out. But when the original Playstation and Wipeout came out, that’s all there was, … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming
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WipEout Collection
Apparently I really like WipEout. I posted a pic of my computer room on Amiga.org and a reader saw, in the foreground, the original “long box” of WipEout for the Playstation. He wrote to tell me it’s very rare. Is … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming
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The “Newly Digital” Distributed Early Computing Anthology
In May of 2003, Adam Kalsey sent out the call to 11 people to submit the personal stories of their early experiences with computing technology, and send him the links. The stories were posted on the individuals’ own blogs and … Continue reading
Posted in Just Rambling
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Kroah’s Retro Game “Decompilation” Effort
I have recently stumbled across one of the most impressive, hardcore retro computing efforts I’ve ever encountered. A reader, Kroah, broke into chat with me the other day, indicating that he had been searching for months and months for the … Continue reading
Posted in Multi-Platform
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Time Bandit Manual Available As PDF Document
I have scanned the Time Bandit instruction manual at 300 dpi and put the pages together in an eight page PDF document for anyone, like me, who loves the game and would like a digital version of the manual. If … Continue reading
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AmigaOS 4 Reviewed
I got my first Amiga back in October of 1985. As I understand it, it was the first Amiga 1000 sold in the state of Virginia. 4096 colors, 4-channel stereo sampled sound, fast 16/32-bit processor, lightweight UNIX-like OS with preemptive … Continue reading
8-bit Video Game Art Show
What could be finer than an 8-bit video game art show? Little, as can be seen in the pictorial posted at Fort90 of just such a phenomenon. Artistic homages to Pac-Man, Mario, Q*Bert, Dig Dug — the list goes on, … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming
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