The Vintage Computing Weblog
There is a new Apple II conference in town figuratively and, for me, literally. It s called INIT HELLO and it came together rather unexpectedly. From the INIT HELLO about page, INIT HELLO is “an accidental conference.” In 2025, community Continue reading The post INIT HELLO: A New Apple II Conference (Scope Creep Done Right) appeared first on Byte Cellar .
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 The post Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2024 Edition) appeared first on Byte Cellar .
Lately, I ve been spending time in the evenings listening to tracker tunes on my Gravis Ultrasound-equipped 486 PC. My go-to player program is Open CubicPlayer for DOS, which does a great job of both accurate playback and adjusting and sorting Continue reading The post Leveling Up Tracker Time with Glowing VU Meters in the Byte Cellar appeared first on Byte Cellar .
Recently I ve gotten into a little synthwave electronic music, listening in the evenings to enjoy a nice drifty, nostalgic vibe. I ve got Hue color lighting and a couple of LED arrays (from Divoom) to show pics and anims down in Continue reading The post Vibing With Some Tunes and a Retro Wave Slideshow on the Apple IIe appeared first on Byte Cellar .
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 The post Q D: Enjoying Some Demos on the Amiga 2000 appeared first on Byte Cellar .
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 The post Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2023 Edition) appeared first on Byte Cellar .
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 started life as boot, bought at these Continue reading The post The Era of American Computer Magazines Has Drawn to a Close appeared first on Byte Cellar .
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 language and see it compiled and linked all in Continue reading The post Thinking Back on Turbo Pascal as It Turns 40 appeared first on Byte Cellar .
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 contained an in-depth dive Continue reading The post Lost Amiga “Four-Byte Burger” Painting Digitally Recreated (And Looking Amazing in Glowing Phosphor!) appeared first on Byte Cellar .
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 consider BBSing to be a Continue reading The post MuffinTerm : A Great New Terminal App for BBSing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac appeared first on Byte Cellar .