Computer Gaming World: Free Downloads of the first 100 Issues (1981-2006)
June 26, 2008
Ziff-Davis opens up the vault, offering free PDFs of every issue from December 1981 to November 1992!
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Teenager Tom Green’s 1980’s Candian Rap Group Video CHECK THE O.R
June 26, 2008
Tom Green Starts rapping at 1:28
“I lay more chick than mother Goose!”
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Teenager Tom Green’s 1980’s Candian Rap Group Video CHECK THE O.R
June 26, 2008
Tom Green Starts rapping at 1:28
“I lay more chick than mother Goose!”
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80’s Computer: the technology that changed me
June 25, 2008
The t
echnology that changed my life in the 80s had to be the first time I saw a computer in the 1980s. It was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. I remember it had the old rainbow Apple/MAC symbol on it. If I had to guess I’d say it was an Apple II system. I remember it had some sort of word fishing game on it.
The school didn’t have many computers for the students to use. There may have been about eight of them. I was amazed by the system. The interaction was what fascinated me. Sure there were plenty of games that I could play on my Atari 2600, but this device could do so much more. I wouldn’t have much more exposure to computers until more libraries started getting them in to allow searches and (later) to allow access to 56k dial-up Internet. That’s about the time I started reading about QBasic programming. It may have been Jr. High School (late 80s) that I was in a class where we actually got to write code in QBasic. We used Goto/Run commands. I loved it. It made lots of sense to me.
Once I was out on my own and able to buy my own computer, it was over… I was hooked.
I still believe that if I’d had more early exposure to computers I’d be a great programmer by now.
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1981 Early Computer Graphics
June 25, 2008
This video was shown to Disney Executives in early 1981; it is what convinced them to go ahead with the leading edge movie “TRON”. It was a compilation of different programmers from the company called Triple I (Information International Inc.) This was way ahead of its time in many ways, CGI was still brand new at this…
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Installing Windows 1.0 circa 1985
June 25, 2008
Screenshots included. 10 floppies, 2 drives …
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GREAT Video Of the Mount St. Helen’s 1980 Eruption
June 23, 2008
At 8:32 AM on Sunday May 18, 1980, an earthquake initiated the greatest landslide in recorded history. Mt. St. Helen’s erupted with an explosion heard 700 miles away. The heart of the mountain was blasted into the sky. Gigantic clouds of ash towered 16 miles above the mountain. At the summit, 1300′ of Mt. St. Helen’s was gone.
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The Swirling Vortex of Doom, Lake Peigneur, Louisiana in 1980
June 23, 2008
Early in the morning on November 21, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig, on Lake Peigneur, on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse beneath them. Unbeknown to the crew, they drilled through the lake bottom to a salt mine below. After three hours, the lake was drained of its 3.5 billion gallons of water.
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Pre-1980 Nintendo Toys
June 20, 2008
An excellent collection of photographs of the early years of Nintendo. Some of these are just brilliant.
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Hacker makes Wii-friendly NES, SNES, N64 controllers
June 18, 2008
The RetroUSB NES/SNES controller adapters enable gamers to easily attain a more genuine Virtual Console experience through the ability to use original controllers. Some hackers have gone even further, building custom circuitry into old equipment. Custom Nintendo themselves have contributed the Super Famicom Classic Controller to the cause of authen
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