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Paul Lefebvre
Feb 23
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The Goto 10 Anniversary Sale continues until March 19th. During the sale you can upgrade to a paid subscription and save 20% (about $10). What do you get with a paid subscription? Extra posts and perks!

Posts are published Fridays (free) and Mondays (paid). With a paid subscription you get 2x the content at a price that is less than what a magazine subscription would have cost in the 1980s.

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Before there was ChatGPT there was Eliza
AI, or artifice intelligence, has been a focus of computing since the early days. In fact, at the beginning scientists thought we would have a computer that could speak intelligently before we had one that could play chess well. That turned out to be completely wrong. Solving Chess was “easy”. Today there are so-called “AI” tools that are becoming more mainstream and a couple that are popular are ChatGPT and Dall-E (from Open-AI). Dall-E creates unique images for you based on text prompts. It’s pretty cool (I’ve used to for some of the images in this post…
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3 months ago · 4 likes · Paul Lefebvre
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Annotated Commentary about the 1986 Byte Atari 1040ST Product Preview
In March 1986, Byte devoted its cover to the Atari 1040ST and included a rather lengthy article about it, which they called a product preview. I have this physical magazine and I’ve re-read this article countless times. It was my go-to reference for the Atari ST before I was finally able to purchase my own…
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4 months ago · 4 likes · Paul Lefebvre
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8-bit Wars: Atari vs. Commodore VIC-20
8-bit Wars is a series where I compare other 8-bit systems to Atari’s 8-bit computers. I’m an Atari guy, so there’s bound to be some bias. Please comment should you disagree with my comparisons. The Atari 8-bit computers started shipping in Fall 1979. The entry-level model, the Atari 400, cost $549. The Commodore VIC-20 was released in 1981 at a price of $299 and was Commodore’s first computer with color graphics, as previously they only had the monochrome, all-in-one PET computers. So how did the Commodore VIC-20 compare to the Atari 8-bits…
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5 months ago · 4 likes · Paul Lefebvre
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Returning to Retro Computing
End of an Era By 1995 I had been working professionally as a software developer for about a year, mostly doing DOS development, but using Microsoft Windows (and OS/2). In 1995, my poor Mega STe was showing its age. Although it was maxed out with 4MB RAM, its 16Mhz CPU was falling way behind current computers. At this point I primarily used it with Usenet to sell (manually, auction-style, pre-eBay) retro video game stuff I would buy at local flea markets and pawn shops…
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6 months ago · 1 like · Paul Lefebvre
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Collecting C Compilers
I was in college for most of my Atari ST days. Since I used C a lot at school for many projects (Unix with gcc typically), I naturally started collected C compilers for the ST. In the ST world, Laser C was probably the most popular C compiler, at least in the late 80s. This was a newer version of the Megamax C compiler that came to the ST from the Macintosh back in 1986 or so…
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6 months ago · 3 likes · 3 comments · Paul Lefebvre

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