Tag: Byte Cellar
Blake Patterson has posted on his excellent blog “The Byte Cellar,” an excellent article where he talks about his 35 years as an amiga user. As he says initially, it is a “meandering and reminiscent” type of post, which I’d say is one of the best types of reading when we feel walking down memory lane for an extra dose…
Byte Cellar’s Blake Patterson has published a new post where he talks about his “task” for the BASIC month held by Reddit’s r/Retrobattlestations last July. He decided to type-in Pearl Harbor, a game from Electronic Fun with Computers & Game magazine, published in 1983. Although Blake “cheated” by not typing the game in the TI-99 directly, he didn’t go all wrong since he…
Blake Patterson has published a blog post and a demo video about a new device that a lot of people in our retro community have been talking about: the Wifi232, an inexpensive device that lets you BBS the way it was meant to be done, on hardware from the golden age of the Bulletin Board System. Since the device connects…
Blake Patterson has published on ByteCellar Vintage Weblog showing off his take on the best Christmas demos for several different platforms, including MSX, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and more. “I got my first computer, a TI-99/4A, on Christmas morning, 1982. I was 10 years old, and from that Christmas on, it was games and hardware I wanted Santa to leave…
Blake Patterson from Byte Cellar had recently his collection featured on PC Magazine website, and today he wrote a new article on his weblog (even calling it weblog is vintage, right?). The article is mostly about his story with computers, and his experience at school, etc… If you are around 40 years old you can probably related a lot to…
We are always pleased to see some of the major news outlets talking about retro-computers. This time, PC Magazine website has published today a slideshow displaying 7 great Vintage Computer Collections, some of them from people we know well from the “retro scene”, like Byte Cellar, Nightfall Crew, etc… If you are thirsty for more, you can visit some of…
