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Teleblivion: March 2009
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Windows 7 (and Windows 1 through 3). Mean Hamster takes up Crossbow. Save the Shell Users. So Much to Read. View my complete profile. Friday, March 27, 2009. Windows 7 (and Windows 1 through 3). Today's slideshow shows some of the design considerations undertaken in the forthcoming Windows 7, which we're all hopeful will help us forget Vista. heh. And it includes some images from Windowses past (see slide 3, 4, etc.). Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Mean Hamster takes up Crossbow. Sunday, March 22, 2009.
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Teleblivion: July 2010
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A Friend at 25. So Much to Read. View my complete profile. Saturday, July 31, 2010. A Friend at 25. The Amiga celebrated its 25th birthday. A few days ago. Kind of mind-bottling to think this number is only going to get bigger. The link has a nice video of Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry, though - check it out! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Teleblivion: August 2010
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So Much to Read. View my complete profile. Friday, August 6, 2010. Today we have a special treat here on the blog - a guest post from my father. He's provided some memories of my first video arcade trip. The time was 1977, an important year - the Apple II. Went on sale in June, the Atari. Home game system came out in October, and of course even before those, Star Wars. Was released in May and changed everything. You were totally enthralled, as if you had just stumbled into Wonderland.
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Teleblivion: March 2011
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So Much to Read. View my complete profile. Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Benj Edwards of Vintage Computing and Gaming. Has written a good piece on modems for PC World. Here's a review of the Smartmodem 1200. From a 1983 issue of Infoworld. The original Smartmodem came out in July 1981, a month before the IBM PC. The Smartmodem 1200 followed the next year. Pictured: the 9600 model, from 1988. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Teleblivion: June 2009
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Cant Stop the Blocks. So Much to Read. View my complete profile. Saturday, June 6, 2009. Can't Stop the Blocks. Tetris, an incredibly simple and compelling game, turns 25 today. People still play it. It's one of the most widely recognized tropes in gamedom. Even Google honored it in its Google Doodle:. Meaning four. Each of the shapes ("tetronimoes") that drop contains four squares in various configurations. As for the "-is," apparently that's a nod to creator Alexey Pajitnov. S favorite sport, Tennis.
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Teleblivion: August 2008
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Demise of the Disc. Goodbye old friend. the twilight of the music ca. So Much to Read. View my complete profile. Friday, August 22, 2008. By simply writing a check for half a million dollars. A similar situation occurred a few years later with a system known as "Rusty n Edie's." Having survived an FBI probe aimed at stopping piracy of commercial software offered online for free, Rusty's board apparently did not withstand its second challenge, this time from Playboy. Tuesday, August 19, 2008. And their no...
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Teleblivion: January 2009
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Naughty Games: Female and Male Perspectives. So Much to Read. View my complete profile. Tuesday, January 6, 2009. Lending truth to the idea that you can find anything on the internet, I've just turned up a page dedicated to a game I read about but never saw over 25 years ago. That game is Randamn. A brief mention of Randamn in EG. An ad for the game. According to the page, some of the Magnum team are now heading a project called MCF III. Monday, January 5, 2009. Naughty Games: Female and Male Perspectives.
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Teleblivion: Luna City R.I.P.
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Luna City R.I.P. So Much to Read. View my complete profile. Monday, October 24, 2011. Luna City R.I.P. He is Peter Hirschberg, and you will not find a man more dedicated to the atmosphere of the early 80s arcade. His Vector Dreams, he once said, would emulate the smell of heated particle board if it could. He's done a lot of fun things with programming and such, but probably what he's best known for is his home arcade, Luna City. You can browse his site. To learn more, and see some fun videos on youtube.
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Teleblivion: February 2009
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Artwork of the Primitives. You kids get off my lawn! So Much to Read. View my complete profile. Friday, February 27, 2009. Artwork of the Primitives. Time now for a look back at artwork analogous to cave paintings, in terms of the digital world. Of course we all see high-def graphics on our computer screens every day. But it was not always so! For your perusal - BBS ads! Contains some girlie pictures. Nothing incredibly NSFW on the first page.). Thursday, February 12, 2009. You kids get off my lawn!
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Teleblivion: March 2010
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Tanks, for the memories. I dont know what this is, but I like it already. So Much to Read. View my complete profile. Thursday, March 25, 2010. Tanks, for the memories. Not very "green", but a good way to ensure your game was saved for posterity (though who would save such a thing? You can get an excellent idea of the game play of one of these Ur-tillery games via this BASIC listing in the Atari archives. Wendell Hicken breathed new life into the genre with Scorched Earth. Mike released Pocket Tanks.
