- 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 replaced the cracked case of my Tandy 1000HX with a "new" one, while in there upgraded the Siemens 8088-2 with an NEC V20, and replaced the LOUD fan with a small, quiet unit. All day, lovely project.
#todayInTheByteCellar I opened the 486-class PC and reconnected power (oops) to the CDROM drive so I could play Dark Forces again. Did a good bit of BBSing on the Amiga 1000. Wrote a blog post asking for opinions on capacitor failure.
#todayInTheByteCellar I did some BBSing on the 1000HX. It'd been a few weeks.
#todayInTheByteCellar I played two hours of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter on the N64. Never finsihed back in the day, started over tonight.
#todayInTheByteCellar I moved one of the WiFi232 modem to the Apple IIe and did a good bit of BBSing on it. Its composite display is clearer than the Tandy 1000HX's CM-5 RGB monitor, interestingly. Also played some Atari 8-bit games. New PSU for Playstation ordered.
Category Archives: BBS
‘Twas No Post, But Poetry! (At 300 Baud)
It is not every day that BBSing moves a man to poetry…. But, there are occasions where it does, as reddit user u/droid_mike proved this past weekend as r/Retrobattlestations‘ BBS Week IV competition drew to a close. The competition rules required … Continue reading
Quickie: A Little PETSCII BBS Fun on a Saturday Morning
Just quickie here. I thought I’d take the Amiga 1000 out for a spin on a few Commodore 64 / PETSCII bulletin board systems this weekend. Thanks to @AmigaL0ve for providing links to two Amiga terminal programs that are up … Continue reading
BBSing on a Virtual NeXT Cube, Thanks to “Previous 2.0”
I’ve been having a lot of fun lately spending time BBSing with many of my vintage systems. One of the systems in my collection that I have not yet used to login is my NeXTstation Turbo Color slab. Its a … Continue reading
Modern-Day BBSing on the Epson PX-8 CP/M Laptop, Circa 1984
Regular readers and those who follow me on twitter have seen me talking a lot about my new hobby: spending time online logged in to telnet Bulletin Board Systems or BBSs around the net. Here on the blog I recently … Continue reading
Four Colors Into Sixteen: Terminal Innovation on the Atari ST
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the growing telnet BBS world lately and it’s really been a blast. I’ve been “dialing” in to my favorite BBSs by way of Paul Rickard’s WiFi232 Internet Modems (which I covered in … Continue reading
The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has (Literally) Never Been Easier
Over the past year or so, I’ve been loading up SyncTerm and logging in to various telnet-accessible BBSs here and there — nothing too consistent. But, thanks to a piece of kit released by Paul Rickards, over the past month … Continue reading
Gearing Up For Proper BBSing With the Raspberry Pi
A few recent retro challenges I’ve undertaken had me wanting to spend a bit more time logged in to BBS’s strewn here and there about the web. I’ve spent an enormous amount of time on BBS’s over the years, nearly all of it long ago … Continue reading
The ‘Real Genius’-Inspired BBS Challenge
Regular readers will have noticed that I have frequently joined in on the fun of r/Retrobattlestations‘ weekly and monthly retro challenges. I’ve done so with such frequency that I recently had to create an r/Retrobattlestations post category on this blog. These … Continue reading
Computer Users’ Groups of My Past [Updated]
I’ve spent the past couple of months procuring parts and assembling a 486-class DOS PC that is more or less a replica of the 486 PC I had back in college, in 1994. That’s the machine that first delivered the … Continue reading
