Retro Blog

History of computers and games

  • Роздуття коду стало астрономічним
    Nick
    26jun'22
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    Переклад, авт. оригіналу cliffski (англ.): https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2022/06/05/code-bloat-has-become-astronomical/

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  • Creating a BASIC Tenliner Game
    Nick
    09jun'22
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    The annual BASIC 10-liner competition was invented in 2011 by Gunnar Kanold, a retrocomputing enthusiast who is teaching STEM disciplines at a secondary school in Friedrichstadt, Germany. The goal of the contest is to write the most exciting computer game in just 10 lines of BASIC, without machine code subroutines. There are three categories limiting the maximum line length allowed: PUR-80, PUR-120, and PUR-256. There is also SCHAU-256 category for non-game software, and WILD for submissions not fitting into any other category. Program should run on a 8-bit computer — such as Atari, for which an emulator exists.

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  • Apple Macintosh Classic - Review
    alk0v
    21may'22
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    Apple Macintosh Classic - Review

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  • Computer archeology: word processors
    Nick
    19may'22
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    In the late 1970s, the first personal microcomputers appeared, as well as a separate class of devices - word processors. These were microcomputers with specialized software focused exclusively on editing and printing texts.

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  • Osborne 1 - Review
    alk0v
    17may'22
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    Історія виникнення Osborne 1

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  • LAND — the game for rare PDP-11 Soviet clone. Windows reincarnation.
    Andriy S'omak
    16may'22
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    In far 1988, being a sixth-grader, I became for the first time, acquainted with the computer. The DVK-3M with the integrated black-and-white display and two five-inch disk drives; gorgeous but not for now. My first acquaintance took place with games from ASP corp. ─ three young programmers who had specialized in computers of the DVK family.

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  • April 1, 1976 - Apple is born
    GrandMaster
    01apr'21
    244
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    The company was founded in California by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak, who built their first personal computer based on the "MOS Technology 6502" processor in the mid-1970s.

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  • 1961 - Sinclair Research Ltd
    GrandMaster
    17mar'21
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    Sinclair Research Ltd is a British consumer electronics company founded by Clive Sinclair in Cambridge.

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  • Atari is born - 1972
    GrandMaster
    05mar'21
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    Atari is an American computer game production and publishing company. Atari had a huge impact on the emergence of the video game industry as a promising economy in the 1970s, and until 1984 held a leading position in the video game market.

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  • Intel исполнилось уже пол века
    GrandMaster
    18jul'18
    260
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    Сегодня у большой компании юбилей, Intel исполнилось ровно 50 лет

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