Month: September 2020

Scene World
Blogs

Video interview with Randy Farmer

September 10, 2020 Scene World

Randy farmer is a pioneer in online gaming, he created the first MMOPRG in 1986 aka Habitat while he worked for Lucasfilm Games (Later Lucas Arts), he has worked for Yahoo, Google, worked on Second Life and a lot more. Join us as we go through the history of time, …

Jeremy Rand's Bejeweled
Apple II

BuGS Weekly Update

September 4, 2020 Jeremy Rand

I didn’t get as much time this week to work on it as I wanted but I did implement some of the ideas from last week’s discussion.  I changed the array of structs to structs of arrays.  This was a minor win really since I did a bunch to reduce …

Paleotronic Magazine
Apple II

Paleotronic’s Hallowe’en Spooktacular

September 30, 2020 Paleotronic Magazine

In the beginning, there was the void. The void was black nothingness. Then, there was the pixel. It was white (or orange, or green) and there could be more than one of them (but all [more…] The post Paleotronic’s Hallowe’en Spooktacular appeared first on Paleotronic Magazine. …

FloppyDays
Computers

Floppy Days 101 – The BBC Micro, Part 2

September 30, 2020 FloppyDays

The BBC Micro, Part 2 Hello, and welcome to episode 101 of the Floppy Days Podcast for September, 2020.  The year is 1981 and we are talking about the legendary BBC Micro.  In this episode and next we will fully cover this incredible machine; from tech specs, peripherals, and books/magazines/software …