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...
https://bytecellar.com/2024/02/17/qd-enjoying-some-demos-on-the-amiga-2000/
‘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 (whic...
https://bytecellar.com/2023/12/24/have-a-helping-of-8-bit-holiday-cheer-2023-edition/
I’ve been buying a copy of Maximum PC magazine at the airport newsstand on every long-distance trip I’ve taken over the past two decades. I’m primarily a Mac user but Maximum PC, which star...
https://bytecellar.com/2023/12/23/the-era-of-american-computer-magazines-has-drawn-to-a-close/
November marked the 40th anniversary of Turbo Pascal, the first Integrated Development Environment (or IDE), which allowed a user to quickly and easily write a program in the Pascal programming l...
https://bytecellar.com/2023/12/04/thinking-back-on-turbo-pascal-as-it-turns-40/
It was in the late summer of 1985 when I first heard of the Amiga. I learned about the forthcoming system in an issue of Personal Computing magazine that featured the Amiga on its cover and conta...
Readers can find quite a few posts on this blog about my enjoyment of modern-day BBSing — “dialing in” to online Bulletin Board Systems that can still be found out there on the net. I consi...
https://bytecellar.com/2023/01/25/muffinterm-a-great-new-terminal-emulator-for-iphone-ipad-and-mac/
‘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 (whi...
https://bytecellar.com/2022/12/25/have-a-helping-of-8-bit-holiday-cheer-2022-edition/
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 keyboar...
https://bytecellar.com/2022/12/23/its-a-midi-christmas-with-the-atari-st-for-holiday-music-week-x/
As regular readers are aware, I enjoy spending time logged in to a few personal favorites of the myriad telnet bulletin board systems that are presently online and serving as discussion communiti...
https://bytecellar.com/2022/11/28/configure-your-mac-to-allow-vintage-computers-to-dial-in/
Lately I’ve been spending time on Mastodon for … reasons. Here’s my link: https://oldbytes.space/@blakespot. In my recently active time on the platform, I have found quite a few excellent r...