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<Now Go Bang!> Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC)

www.masswerk.at
2019-02-21T05:13:36.000Z
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The time it takes for the phosphor to become fully activated is actually longer than the pulse representing the timing to draw a single pixel (40 nanoseconds). Meaning, if we were to attempt to display just a single pixel, the phosphor on this particular spot will never reach its full activation level resulting in a fuzzy image of varying brightnesses between dimmer, thin strokes and heavier, thick strokes. So the typography has to adjust for this, by streching the pulses to double width (80 ns), at least, in order to provide an even image and legible text and to work around the shallow flanks of the screen intensification.

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VC&G | Wikipedia is Deleting BBS Game History

www.vintagecomputing.com
2012-12-10T04:27:09.000Z
to:fb history bbs gaming vintage imported:pinboard

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As we speak, certain vigilante Wikipedia users are hard at work erasing whatever scraps of little-known BBS door game history that resides in Wikipedia's databases. The first casualty in this war was the entry for Space Empire Elite, which was deleted early this morning.

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Vintage food

kottke.org
2011-10-26T18:11:02.000Z
food vintage photos imported:pinboard

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A trip down memory lane and beyond at Vintage Computer Fest - Ars Technica

arstechnica.com
2009-09-17T13:50:43.000Z
vintage computer festival east retro oldschool imported:pinboard

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"A photo essay featuring some hardware you may remember, some you may have only heard of, and a few things that you were probably never aware existed. One thing we learned: the older a computer is, the more likely it is to be blue."

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A trip down memory lane and beyond at Vintage Computer Fest - Ars Technica

arstechnica.com
2009-09-17T13:50:43.000Z
vintage computer festival east retro oldschool imported:raindrop

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"A photo essay featuring some hardware you may remember, some you may have only heard of, and a few things that you were probably never aware existed. One thing we learned: the older a computer is, the more likely it is to be blue." A photo essay featuring some hardware you may remember, some you may have only …

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pagetable.com » Blog Archive » Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows - now Open Source

www.pagetable.com
2008-11-05T16:11:10.000Z
oldschool basic c64 scripting holycrap nifty vintage opensource retro commodore64 imported:pinboard

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"Today, we are releasing Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language - it works on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 (Intel and PowerPC), and you even get the source, so you can adapt it to other operating systems and CPUs."

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The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler Ramblings

trixter.wordpress.com
2008-11-02T20:11:46.000Z
filesystems disks c64 ibm badsectors pc gaming hacks retro geek vintage commodore imported:pinboard

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"The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is IBM and the other side is C64 or Apple — until I looked at the FAT12 for the disk and saw that tons of sectors in an interleaved pattern were marked as BAD — very strange usage."

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Vintage Computing and Gaming | Archive » StarTTY: Turn Your Vintage Computer Into an Information Appliance

www.vintagecomputing.com
2007-01-20T06:14:58.000Z
startty nifty retro vintage imported:pinboard

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"StarTTY, created by Dorian Garson, is an information “push” service designed for old serial terminals and computers than can run terminal emulators"

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Vintage Computing and Gaming | Archive » Why Super Nintendos Lose Their Color: Plastic Discoloration in Classic Machines

www.vintagecomputing.com
2007-01-13T02:55:45.000Z
gaming nintendo snes retro vintage imported:pinboard

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"The top half of the console’s plastic body retained a uniformly nasty yellow-brown hue, while the bottom half flaunted its showroom shine — that native SNES gray that we all know and love."

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