Monthly Archives: November 2016

My SGI O2: Down Off the Shelf and Back On the Desk

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Blake Patterson

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 proposition) … Continue reading →

Posted in SGI, UNIX | 7 Comments

Procedural Planetary Exploration Across the Decades

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Blake Patterson

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 PC I built specifically to … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming, No Man's Sky | 9 Comments

The Year that ‘Starglider’ and the Atari ST Saved Halloween

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Blake Patterson

(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 that’s been on my mind lately, but is not … Continue reading →

Posted in Atari, Down Memory Lane, Gaming | 9 Comments

Getting Spooky with the Apple IIe for October

Posted on November 6, 2016 by Blake Patterson

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 text/graphic adventure Transylvania — one of my favorites … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple II, r/Retrobattlestations | 1 Comment