- 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
Tag Archives: demoscene
Q&D: Enjoying Some Demos on the Amiga 2000
Over the recent holiday, I spent some time upgrading, working on projects with, and generally polishing off a few of the vintage systems in my collection and, as such, ended up having some pretty great retro fun with them. Not … Continue reading
Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2022 Edition)
‘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
Fun With System Power Monitoring on the Apple IIe
One of my favorite vintage systems in the “Byte Cellar” is my 128k enhanced Apple IIe. It is also one of the most frequently used; I fire it up for IRC or BBS sessions several times a week, and game … Continue reading
Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2021 Edition)
‘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
Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2020 Edition)
‘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
Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2019 Edition)
‘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
Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2018 Edition)
‘Tis the season, and that means it’s time to push out the eighth 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
Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2017 Edition)
‘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
Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2016 – 2011 Editions)
‘Tis the season, and that means it’s time to push out the sixth 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
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