Category Archives: Multi-Platform

Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2022 Edition)

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Blake Patterson

‘Tis the season, and that means it’s time to push out the eleventh annual Byte Cellar vintage computer Holiday demo roundup so everyone can feel that warm, fuzzy, pixellated holiday glow (which I think we could all especially use this … Continue reading →

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Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2021 Edition)

Posted on December 24, 2021 by Blake Patterson

‘Tis the season, and that means it’s time to push out the eleventh annual Byte Cellar vintage computer Holiday demo roundup so everyone can feel that warm, fuzzy, pixellated holiday glow (which I think we could all especially use this … Continue reading →

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Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2020 Edition)

Posted on December 19, 2020 by Blake Patterson

‘Tis the season, and that means it’s time to push out the tenth annual Byte Cellar vintage computer Holiday demo roundup so everyone can feel that warm, fuzzy, pixellated holiday glow (which I think we could all especially use this … Continue reading →

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Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2019 Edition)

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Blake Patterson

‘Tis the season, and that means it’s time to push out the ninth annual Byte Cellar vintage computer Holiday demo roundup so everyone can feel that warm, fuzzy, pixellated holiday glow. With scanlines. Enjoy! I’ve been a computer geek for … Continue reading →

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How I Got Started in Vintage Computing

Posted on November 23, 2019 by Blake Patterson

I was recently listening to the celebratory 200th episode of my favorite vintage computing podcast, the Retro Computing Roundtable, which has been running for nine years. Marking the occasion, the early hosts of the show were in attendance and much … Continue reading →

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Computer Classifieds Dating Back Over 35 Years, Uncovered

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Blake Patterson

As often happens, I got an idea for a blog post about a place of my past that readers may find interesting, and jumped online to scour the search engines for some tidbit of history I could use to prop … Continue reading →

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A Baker’s Dozen for High Score Week

Posted on May 2, 2019 by Blake Patterson

The subreddit r/Retrobattlestations is one of my favorite vintage computing project outlets on the net. The sub runs frequent competitions, and last week’s compo was High Score Week. During a High Score Week, members pick a game for their favorite … Continue reading →

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A Look at the Short-Lived 3-Inch Compact Floppy Disk

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Blake Patterson

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 →

Posted in Apple II, Atari, DOS / Win PC, Multi-Platform, Tandy / TRS-80 | 7 Comments

Have a Helping of 8-bit Halloween Horrors!

Posted on October 28, 2018 by Blake Patterson

I was at my Amiga 2000 the other night loading this and that scenedemo (demoscene productions) at random, many of which I’d not watched in years, when I ran across a little 40K intro featuring some nifty Halloween-themed elements. With … Continue reading →

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Brief Encounters of the Home Computing Kind

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Blake Patterson

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 →

Posted in Amiga, Apple II, Atari, Commodore 64/128, Multi-Platform | 3 Comments