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Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2024 Edition)

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Blake Patterson

‘Tis the season, and that means it’s time to push out the thirteenth 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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Q&D: Enjoying Some Demos on the Amiga 2000

Posted on February 17, 2024 by Blake Patterson

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 →

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Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2023 Edition)

Posted on December 24, 2023 by Blake Patterson

‘Tis the season, and that means it’s time to push out the twelfth 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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My First Taste of CGA “Composite Color”

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Blake Patterson

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 →

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