Getting Spooky with the Apple IIe for October
October was Spooky Month over at r/Retrobattlestations. The contest required submitting a photo of a vintage machine playing a Halloween or “spooky” video game. As you can see, I fired up Polarware’s...
View ArticleThe Year that ‘Starglider’ and the Atari ST Saved Halloween
(The U.S. presidential election took place yesterday, and today I am greatly in need of some serious distraction, so I thought I’d write a post about a particular computing memory from decades past...
View ArticleProcedural Planetary Exploration Across the Decades
Regular readers are surely aware that I’m rather addicted to the space exploration game No Man’s Sky by Hello Games. I recently detailed my love for the title and gave an account of the high-end gaming...
View ArticleMy SGI O2: Down Off the Shelf and Back On the Desk
A quick update regarding the SGI O2 system I’ve written about a few times over the years. I grabbed an O2 setup on eBay back in 2003 (went in looking for an Indy, but the O2 seemed a better...
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