Monthly Archives: February 2007

Got My Micro Mate 520 STation for Atari ST!

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Blake Patterson

Back in the fall of 1986 I moved from an Apple IIe to an Atari 520ST. I quite enjoyed that ST. One particularly nice and uncommon thing about my ST setup was the system stand I found and ordered out … Continue reading →

Posted in Atari | 3 Comments

Chips & Technologies’ WINGINE Graphics Subsystem

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Blake Patterson

I’ve gone through a lot of computers since I got my first for Christmas in 1982 (age 10). A few were PCs. Of the PCs I’ve owned, one had a particularly interesting feature that I’ll wager no one reading this … Continue reading →

Posted in DOS / Win PC, NeXT | 3 Comments

S-Video to RCA Chroma, Luma Cable

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Blake Patterson

This may seem like a somewhat obscure and certainly not very exciting post, but I want it to get into the search engines. One of the nicer non-RGB monitors ever made is the Commodore 1702, released in the early 80s. … Continue reading →

Posted in Multi-Platform | 5 Comments

Apple’s Subpixel Font Rendering is Bugged in Mac OS X

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Blake Patterson

On September 20, 2006 I submitted the following Mac OS X bug report to Apple via the ADC Bug Reporter. The bug has to do with OS X’s subpixel font rendering, which is activated if the font smoothing style (in … Continue reading →

Posted in Macintosh | 13 Comments

My Media PC Gives Up the Ghost

Posted on February 3, 2007 by Blake Patterson

So my media PC died. The core of my entertainment center is a Shuttle XPC i8600 (3.2GHz P4 HT) running Meedio under Windows XP. It’s great. It’s my main DVD player and it lets me sit on the couch with … Continue reading →

Posted in Windows | 1 Comment