- Boing Boing: No Man's Sky as a Commodore Amiga slideshow
- Gameplaying: Sean Murray impressed by No Man’s Sky on Amiga computer
- Hack A Day: BBSing with the ESP8266
- Retro Gamer mag: On Being Featured in Retro Gamer’s “Collector’s Corner”
- Polygon: Meet the guy who spent over $4,000 on No Man’s Sky
- NewEgg- HardBoiled: The Science Behind 3 Inspiring PC Battlestations
- PC Mag: 7 Amazing Vintage Computer Collections
- HLN: Inside the 'Byte Cellar': 30 years with Apple
- Forbes: Steve Jobs In The Flesh
- Lifehacker: The Byte Cellar: A Geeked-Out Ode to Computers and Video Games
- Engadget: Blake Patterson's Byte Cellar: the ultimate man cave for aspiring geeks
- TechHive: The Byte Cellar Is the Ultimate Geek Dream Den
- Gadget Review: The “Byte Cellar” Contains 122 Video Game Machines
- Apartment Therapy: Blake's Byte Cellar Workstation With 4 Different Monitors
- CNN (video): Apple's Mac Turns 25
- Engadget: Apple IIc as a Serial terminal to a Mac Mini
- Newton Poetry: Profile: Blake Patterson of ‘Touch Arcade’
- TUAW: Flickr Find: Digital Steve Jobs on a bookshelf
- Cult of Mac: Steve Jobs left an imprint on tech and the skin of some devoted fans
Today in the ByteCellar
Load More...#todayInTheByteCellar I spent a great deal of time with the Atari 130XE. It has some amazing Galaxian-like games, Galaxian itself as a title being quite notably awesome. Wizard of War was in the mix also - great version.
#todayInTheByteCellar I got the ISA adapter from Australia I’d been waiting for and so now have serial and HD both installed in the 640K Tandy 1000HX so it’s my main #BBS machine. Lots of character in this 8088 PC, I must say.
#todayInTheByteCellar I moved 20 floppies of Tandy apps and games I filled over the holidays to the CF IDE volumes now on the 1000HX and put the floppies back into circulation. Lots of good mid-80s fun, there. Once I replace its cracked case, I’ll be set.
#todayInTheByteCellar (well, last night) I got a 512MB CF card in the Tandy 1000HX acting as an IDE HD and began loading it out. XTree Gold, Deskmate, Demos, etc. Waiting for arrival of another PLUS-to-ISA riser to mount serial card alongside lo-tech IDE controller.
#todayInTheByteCellar I determined my CF cards are no liking the lo-tech so ordered a "new" one. Sawed part of an ISA serial board off and then fit it into the Tandy 1000HX. BBSed on the Tandy. Contemplated DOS 5.0 vs 3.3 as the best 640K 8088 fit. Hmm...
Category Archives: Apple II
As God Is My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly
When it comes to the holidays, I get rather sentimental as well as nostalgic, these days. Holidays as a kid are some of the best memories any of us have, really. And having been an avid computer geek during the … Continue reading
Brief Encounters of the Home Computing Kind
Back in the “home computer” days, I was something of a serial platform jumper; the list of systems I’ve owned is long. I would have a certain system and be happily using it and then become intrigued by a different … Continue reading
Highlighting My Bedside Apple //c for “Wedge Week” at r/RetroBattlestations
This week was “Wedge Week” at r/RetroBattlestations and I chose to focus on my Apple //c which I recently moved to a bedside configuration for leisurely retrocomputing BBS and IRC usage. This //c has lived in two D.C. offices and … Continue reading
To Upgrade, or Not to Upgrade, That Is the Question
The other day I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, the Retro Computing Roundtable, when the host topic really struck a chord in me. In this episode, no. 148, Paul Hagstrom was hosting and his topic for discussion … Continue reading
Remembering the Apple IIgs Sales Demo
It was a Saturday morning in September when we saw the Apple IIgs for the first time. By “we,” I mean those of us who headed to local authorized Apple dealers across the country (which for me was Chaney Computer … Continue reading
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 text/graphic adventure Transylvania — one of my favorites … Continue reading
Computer Printout Photo Album from 1986
I got such a positive reaction from my last post about the 33 year old recovered photos of my first home computer setup that I became motivated to finally get a photo album I had spoken of in an earlier … Continue reading
33 Year Old Roll of Film Offers a Glimpse of My Vintage Computing Beginnings
I got my first home computer on Christmas morning in 1982. It was a TI-99/4A with 16K of RAM. In the years that followed, I moved on fairly frequently to a new system, selling the old to fund it. I … Continue reading
KFest Funk Gonna Give It To Ya!
I get closer and closer to attending KansasFest every year. All the after-reports I hear on the various retrocomputing podcasts I listen to confirm it’s the ultimate blast for a hardcore Apple II fan. I was talking about it with … Continue reading
The French Touch Releases “Pure Noise” Music Disk for Apple IIe + Mockingboard
The French Touch is at it again. Grouik of The French Touch has just contacted me to let me know about the Apple II demo / hacking group’s latest production, Pure Noise, a music disk for the 128K Apple IIe. It requires a … Continue reading
