Tag Archives: Atari

It’s a MIDI Christmas With the Atari ST for “Holiday Music Week X”

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Blake Patterson

As I type this we are in the middle of the tenth annual Holiday Music Week over at r/Retrobattlestations. For this season’s contest, I decided to interface my wife’s Radio Shack music keyboard with my Atari 520ST using its built-in … Continue reading →

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Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2017 Edition)

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Blake Patterson

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

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33 Year Old Roll of Film Offers a Glimpse of My Vintage Computing Beginnings

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Blake Patterson

I got my first home computer on Christmas morning in 1982. It was a TI-99/4A with 16K of RAM. My parents purchased it from a sewing machine retailer. In the years that followed, I moved on fairly frequently to a … Continue reading →

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The Mockingboard Sings a Few New Songs

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Blake Patterson

I remember feeling that one of the coolest things about my Apple IIe setup back in 1986 was the 6-voice sound card with which I outfitted it. The Apple II line (aside from the IIGS with it’s superb Ensoniq DOC … Continue reading →

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A Look at VM Labs’ NUON — A Modern Retrospective

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Blake Patterson

As regular readers are aware, my own basement “Byte Cellar” is host not only to many different home computers that span the decades but to game consoles of varying vintage, as well. Among these, my most unique and treasured is without question … Continue reading →

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