Blake Patterson    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 bit Holiday...

Blake Patterson    Lately, I’ve been spending time in the evenings listening to tracker tunes on my Gravis Ultrasound equipped 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...

Blake Patterson    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...

Blake Patterson    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 ...

Blake Patterson    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 bit Holiday...

Blake Patterson    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...

Blake Patterson    November marked the th 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...

Blake Patterson    It was in the late summer of 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...

Blake Patterson    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,...

Blake Patterson    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 which I think we could all especially use this Continue reading ’ The post Have a Helping of bit Holiday...