- Hack A Day: A Handy Guide to the Humble BBS
- Boing Boing: No Man's Sky as a Commodore Amiga slideshow
- VG24/7: 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 [Archive]
- PC Mag: 7 Amazing Vintage Computer Collections
- CNN HLN: Inside the 'Byte Cellar': 30 years with Apple [Archive]
- 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
- PC World: The Byte Cellar Is the Ultimate Geek Dream Den
- Gadget Review: The “Byte Cellar” Contains 122 Video Game Machines [Archive]
- The Games Shed: Retro Gaming Collections – Blake Patterson – The Retro Story Guy [Archive]
- Apartment Therapy: Blake's Byte Cellar Workstation With 4 Different Monitors [Archive]
- 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 [Archive]
- Cult of Mac: Steve Jobs left an imprint on tech and the skin of some devoted fans
Category Archives: DOS / Win PC
Thinking Back on ‘Turbo Pascal’ as It Turns 40
November marked the 40th anniversary of Turbo Pascal, the first Integrated Development Environment (or IDE), which allowed a user to quickly and easily write a program in the Pascal programming language and see it compiled and linked — all in … Continue reading
A Look at the Short-Lived 3-Inch Compact Floppy Disk
I was recently listening to the latest episode of Retro Computing Roundtable podcast during which there was mention of a 3-inch floppy disk. No, not 3.5-inch, but 3-inch. These disks are known as Compact Floppy Disks (also “CF2”) and were … Continue reading
My First Taste of CGA “Composite Color”
As a long-time Apple II users I am quite familiar with the technique of generating color video by way of NTSC “artifact color” (also sometimes referred to as “composite color”). The 8-bit Apple II series is incapable of outputting any … Continue reading
My Skylake Gaming PC Build [Updated]
A month ago I shared my feelings about Hello Games’ space exploration game No Man’s Sky. (Spoiler: I loved it — and still do, about 150 hours in.) In the post I mentioned that parts were in the mail for … Continue reading
Holiday Music Week III at r/Retrobattlestations
Once again the season is upon us, and that means it’s Holiday Music Week over at /r/Retrobattlestations. Holiday Music Week III, to be precise. While I fired up the Apple IIgs for a previous HMW, this year I’ve put the … Continue reading
Behold: The 5×86 System Build Is Complete!
Back in November I became inspired by the knowledge that my favorite old school DOS MODplayer had “recently” received an update, and expressed my intention (part 1) to more-or-less recreate the 486-class DOS PC upon which I enjoyed many, many … Continue reading
DOS Box Build: Update #1
A few weeks back I wrote a post detailing my desire to build a 486-class DOS box. In the time since then, I’ve been actively digging parts out of my storage shelves and scanning eBay for the remaining, needed items. … Continue reading
Setting Out to Build a 486-Class DOS Box
[UPDATE: This turned into a three-part post, with a video of the build process at the end. So, read on!] This is a quick post to lay out the plan for a retro project that has recently struck me and … Continue reading
Chips & Technologies’ WINGINE Graphics Subsystem
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