Month: December 2016

Retro Computing Roundtable
Computers

RCR Episode 143: Acquisitions of 2016

December 18, 2016 Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, and Carrington Vanston Host’s Topic: Acquisitions of 2016 Acquisitions of 2016 – What were your favourite finds for the 2016? Any surprises, good or bad? Are you looking for anything in particular for 2017? Retro Computing News: AtariCrypt magazine MAGIC-1 TTL-based computer LNW-80 …

Eaten by a Grue
Games

Ballyhoo

December 16, 2016 Eaten by a Grue

Welcome to Ballyhoo, Infocom’s circus mystery. Can these johnny tin plates foil the grift and save the circus? Or is the cherry pie just too much for a pair of side-walling lot loafers? Hosts: Kevin Savetz and Carrington Vanston Find links, notes, and more episodes of Eaten By A Grue …

Eaten by a Grue
Games

Zork I

December 16, 2016 Eaten by a Grue

Kevin and Carrington discuss Zork I, the first text adventure from Infocom. From the highs of its incredible parser to the lows of its unfair puzzles, it all comes down to one burning question: are you a TAKE person or a GET person? Hosts: Kevin Savetz and Carrington Vanston Find …

Apple II

Shipping fees now charged on back issues & software

December 31, 2016 Juiced.GS

Juiced.GS has several business practices that make us unique. One is that our subscriptions follow the calendar year: instead of starting when you subscribe, they begin in March of the year you’ve subscribed to. Although not an industry-standard model, synchronizing everyone’s subscriptions makes them easier to manage — which is

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Open Apple
Apple II

Open Apple #66 (December 2016) : Glenda “The Atom” Adams

December 28, 2016 Open Apple

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Glenda Adams, better known on the Apple II as The Atom. She was a cracker of some note back in the 1980s, and she shares great stories with us of her exploits in boot tracing, cracking, and distributing software in the glory

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Blogs

Determining Scale and Room Size

December 28, 2016 ReturnToRom

We cannot create 3D visuals of a 2D world without deciding ahead of time how to convert the 2D pixel units to actual feet.  In the case of Temple of Rom, this job is made easier by an exact pixel map recently made available by Starxxon@lv_tone after he pulled the …

ANTIC
Atari

ANTIC Interview 259 – Wynn Smith, Mosaic Electronics

December 28, 2016 ANTIC

Wynn Smith, Mosaic Electronics

Wynn Smith was co-founder of Mosaic Electronics, a company that produced memory upgrade cards for the Atari 400 and 800 computers, as well as the Commodore 64 and VIC-20. He started at Tektronix, where be wrote code for the OEM graphics division at the age of

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