Byte Cellar
The Vintage Computing Weblog
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- 410 from 21 Mar 2004 to 10 May 2026
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2026 1
2024 4
2023 5
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2023 Edition)
- The Era of American Computer Magazines Has Drawn to a Close
- Thinking Back on ‘Turbo Pascal’ as It Turns 40
- Lost Amiga “Four-Byte Burger” Painting Digitally Recreated (And Looking Amazing in Glowing Phosphor!)
- “MuffinTerm”: A Great New Terminal App for BBSing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
2022 10
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2022 Edition)
- It’s a MIDI Christmas With the Atari ST for “Holiday Music Week X”
- Configure Your Mac to Allow Vintage Computers to “Dial In” [Updated]
- A Secret Apple Silicon Extension to Accommodate an Intel 8080 Artifact
- “4K Scaling” Is Not a Problem on Modern Macs
- An Apple II Tale Told Complete by the Late Tony Diaz
- Microsoft Sunsets Amiga’s Killer App: Internet Explorer
- Fun With System Power Monitoring on the Apple IIe
- A Colorful “Peek” at the Graphics Performance of the Apple II
- BBSing in the Snow Is the Best Way to Login
2021 4
2020 11
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2020 Edition)
- VidHD and “Total Replay”: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together!
- I Sit at the Round Table (And Dance Whene’er I’m Able)
- Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User
- The Infinity Modules Player: Never Turn Off Your Amiga Again
- Apple //c Scene From ’80s Bond Film “A View to a Kill” Perfectly Re-Created With Applesoft BASIC
- The eMate 300 Out In Front for “BBS Week V”
- Firing Up the Apple //c for “Not x86 Week”
- Announcing “NMSspot” – My New “No Man’s Sky” Blog
- A Quick “Heads Up” for My New BBSing Resource Page
- The Amiga 1000 Sings Songs of the Season for Holiday Music Week VII
2019 16
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2019 Edition)
- How I Got Started in Vintage Computing
- A Progress Update From a “No Man’s Sky” Time Traveler
- SGI O2 Promo Video from the Mid-’90s
- Wait … QuickTake ??
- A Bit of History Regarding “Tunnels of Armageddon” for the Apple IIgs
- I Laughed Just A Little Too Hard…
- Memories of a Software Rental Shop
- Computer Classifieds Dating Back Over 35 Years, Uncovered
- A Baker’s Dozen for High Score Week
- Let’s Talk About Capacitor Failure
- An Archive of Newsletters from My Users’ Groups Past
- A Few Words from a “No Man’s Sky” Time Traveler
- A Look at the Short-Lived 3-Inch Compact Floppy Disk
- ‘Twas No Post, But Poetry! (At 300 Baud)
- My First Taste of CGA “Composite Color”
2018 16
- The TI Goes A-Caroling for Holiday Music Week VI
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2018 Edition)
- As God Is My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Halloween Horrors!
- Enjoying High-Res Graphics on a Text-Only TRS-80 Model 4 from 1983
- Putting the Atari ST and TI out Front for “Modern Touch Week” at r/Retrobattlestations
- Ray Tracing Is No New Thing
- Today My “No Man’s Sky” Journey Reaches the Two-Year Mark
- A Unique Work of Art for My Office in D.C.
- Brief Encounters of the Home Computing Kind
- Quickie: A Little PETSCII BBS Fun on a Saturday Morning
- Remembering an Atari Computer Lab in Hampton, Virginia
- BBSing on a Virtual NeXT Cube, Thanks to “Previous 2.0”
- Modern-Day BBSing on the Epson PX-8 CP/M Laptop, Circa 1984
- A Planetary Anachronism: “No Man’s Sky” Beautifully Rendered on the Amiga 1000
- Highlighting My Bedside Apple //c for “Wedge Week” at r/RetroBattlestations
2017 12
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2017 Edition)
- A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for “BASIC Month” and a Chat with Its Author
- The Retro Was Strong at the Smithsonian’s SAAM Arcade 2017 in D.C.
- A Gamer’s Reflections as “No Man’s Sky” Turns One Year Old
- Four Colors Into Sixteen: Terminal Innovation on the Atari ST
- The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has (Literally) Never Been Easier
- A Glimpse of Paradigm Simulation’s ‘Certain Impact’ for SGI / IRIX
- To Upgrade, or Not to Upgrade, That Is the Question
- The Amiga 1000 Doing Its Thing – A Video
- My January 1986 Macworld Is Missing Page 13
- Did You Hear About That Nutter Who Dropped $4K $6K on No Man’s Sky?! [Updated!]
- Tapping the HP-9000 Gecko for “Not x86 Week”
2016 26
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2016 – 2011 Editions)
- Remembering the Apple IIgs Sales Demo
- My SGI O2: Down Off the Shelf and Back On the Desk
- Procedural Planetary Exploration Across the Decades
- The Year that ‘Starglider’ and the Atari ST Saved Halloween
- Getting Spooky with the Apple IIe for October
- My Skylake Gaming PC Build [Updated]
- A Few Words About the Best Game I’ve Ever Played: No Man’s Sky [Updated]
- A Little App Called ‘FlyLab’ Running on My NeXTstation
- Computer Printout Photo Album from 1986
- 33 Year Old Roll of Film Offers a Glimpse of My Vintage Computing Beginnings
- Showing Off the Atari SC1224 for “CRT Week” at r/Retrobattlestations
- Gearing Up For Proper BBSing With the Raspberry Pi
- A Look Back at Three Decades of Word Processors
- Remembering the Opening of the First Apple Store, 15 Years Later
- The ‘Real Genius’-Inspired BBS Challenge
- KFest Funk Gonna Give It To Ya!
- Computers Are Funny (Or Were…)
- The French Touch Releases “Pure Noise” Music Disk for Apple IIe + Mockingboard
- As My Daughter Turns Ten, A Look at the Technology Then and Now
- Help Support the new Retrocomputing Stack Exchange Q&A Site
- My Lisa, All Fired Up for “Apple Month” at r/Retrobattlestations
- It Was Always The “Amiga 1000”
- An Interview with CMUCC Members Behind the Apple Lisa’s First Scenedemo, “Le Requiem de Lisa”
- A Quick Tour of the HP-9000 712/100 NEXTSTEP Workstation
- I’m Playing With a Philips Velo 1 H/PC Again
2015 26
- WHDLoad: The Amiga’s Secret Weapon
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2015 Edition)
- Holiday Music Week III at r/Retrobattlestations
- On Being Featured in Retro Gamer’s “Collector’s Corner”
- We See Farther: A Tribute to the EA that Once Was
- 1997 Wonders: Is There a Future in the ARM SoC?
- An Apple IIgs / FTA Apple Watch Face
- Recalling My First CD Player, Stereo System
- The Mockingboard Sings a Few New Songs
- My Earliest Memories of Microcomputing — And How I Came About Them
- Upgrading the Atari 520ST to 4MB of RAM
- A Review of “CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy’s Underdog Computer”
- The Amiga Turns 30
- That Time I Ran Linux on the Desktop
- Smithsonian’s “Places of Invention” Exhibit Highlights the Rise of the Personal Computer
- A Look at VM Labs’ NUON — A Modern Retrospective
- The Man Inside the Macintosh and Amiga 1000
- April 24, 2015 — A Good Day to Stop Wearing Watches
- Bmp2DHGR Revisited: A Slideshow Running on Real Metal
- Handheld Gaming on a Snowy Day
- Fun with the Tandy CoCo 3
- Don’t Let the FCC Impose Dial-Up Access Charges!
- New Blog Announcement: Nostalgic Virginian
- Whither Radio Shack [Updated]
- Bmp2DHR: The Best Apple II Graphics You’ll See This Week [UPDATED]
- The iOS Family Pile (2015)
2014 24
- Look What Came in the Mail Today!
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2014 Edition)
- An Apple II Anecdote: Fun with the AST RamStakPlus
- A Few Words About a Kare Package I Received Last Christmas
- After Thirty Years, Macworld Fades into the Night
- A Rare Glimpse of a Memorial Apple Prototype Display at frog
- The Apple //c Makes It to the Office…Again
- It Was More Fun When Stores Had Arcade Games
- Apple Shows Its True Colors in Recent Mac Video
- NeXTstation Turbo Color Battery Swap
- Susan Kare’s EG 2014 Talk – I Spy Something Familiar…
- Magazine BASIC: “Hacker’s Rap” Circa 1984
- Hey Look, It’s ‘Flappy Bird’ for the TI-99/4A!
- The Lisa 2 Took to the Stage For “Motorola 68000 Week”
- MacDouble D-D: Two Internal Floppies for the Original Macintosh
- A Song for Steve Jobs: “Vision in Black” by Nathan J. and The NeXTsteps
- SGI Gets…Err…Got Medieval on Microsoft, HP, and Sun
- HP Rap: “A Brand New Era We’ve Unfurled…”
- My Raspberry Pi-Turned-Laptop
- Behold: The 5×86 System Build Is Complete!
- Computer Users’ Groups of My Past [Updated]
- Steve Jobs: American Cool
- Susan Kare and Burrell Smith Talk Macintosh
- Happy 30th Birthday, Macintosh
2013 20
- DOS Box Build: Update #1
- My “Portable Week” Offering to /r/RetroBattlestations
- The First GIF I Ever Saw
- I Reached for the Nuon for “PONG Week” Over at /r/RetroBattlestations
- Setting Out to Build a 486-Class DOS Box
- There, But for the Grace of God, Go I
- “Logo Week”: More Fun Over at /r/RetroBattlestations
- Happy Halloween, All You Vintage Computing Ghouls!
- It Occurred to Me That a Lot Has Changed in Mobile Computing over the Last Fifteen Years
- Siri and Eliza Have a Conversation
- “BASIC Week” Fun Over at /r/RetroBattlestations
- Assembling the Lego Apple //c
- Susan Kare Gives Kutcher the 32×32 Treatment
- Found Photo: Me and My Apple QuickTake 200 Camera
- Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- My First “Homepage” and Email “Sigs” of Olde
- i-Opener: The Internet Appliance That Was Made to be Hacked
- A Glimpse of the Elusive ‘Time Bandit’ for the Sanyo MBC 550
- My First Computer Thought It Was a Sewing Machine
- Pinterest as a Visual Archive of Computing History
2012 18
- An Inside Look At OS/2…And Why It Failed
- A Phone Call I’ve Remembered These 28 Long Years…
- One of the Finest iPad Apps Is No More – Thanks for the Update, Twitter
- The Tandy CoCo to Get Its Own ‘Soul of a New Machine’
- Susan Kare’s 32×32 Pixels of Steve Jobs…On My Flesh and Forever
- Three-Headed Beast Spotted Staring Across Martian Landscape
- Christmas Morning, 1979 — A Pivotal Moment Captured on Film
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Games
- A New Photo Panorama of The “Byte Cellar” for 2012 [Updated]
- Liber809 – The Motorola 6809 Gets a New Platform
- CFFA3000 for Apple II: Look Ma, No Disks!
- My First Printer. What Was Yours?
- Glowing Pixels Replace Swirls of Paint at the Smithsonian
- Wait — Not Another Apple Podcast?!
- The KryoFlux Floppy Controller: A Magnetic Media Miracle
- Future Games: Ten Years from Now, Thirty Years Ago
- A Cautionary Tale for the Tandy CoCo Community [UPDATED]
- A Look at the Sauciest Magazine I Ever Owned
2011 42
- The Apple Game Server Online: Look Ma, No Floppies!
- Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! [Updated for 2014]
- So, Guess What Came in the Mail the Other Day
- On the Passing of a Visionary
- The iPod Turns 10 Years Old
- Steve Jobs: Like Comments On Life, Death and NeXT
- I Sat At The Retro Computing Roundtable…And It Was Sublime
- An Apple //c’s Tribute to Steve Jobs
- Thank you, Steve.
- A Home-Made Map Lead to Plunder on the High Seas!
- Of Oldschool Arcades…Decades Apart
- Touch Arcade Made Time’s 50 Best Websites of 2011!
- Pre-Order Your Copy of ‘The Complete Historically Brewed’ from David Greelish
- An Apparent Keyboard Geek Finally Learns to Type
- ‘Megaroids’ – My All-Time Favorite ‘Asteroids’ Clone
- ‘The Sagan Series’ – End of an Era: The Final Shuttle Launch
- A Few Humble Thoughts As STS-135 Soars Overhead
- Andy Hertzfeld of Original Macintosh Team Designed Google+ Circle Editor
- Apple //c Serial Terminal in the Byte Cellar
- My Chance ISS Flyover Experience
- The iPhone 4 Rides a Kite
- Web Browsing on the Oregon Trail
- Letting the Boxes Go: A Tale of Sadness
- My Father the NASA Engineer: A Year After His Passing
- Laser 128: The Apple II From My Past That Wasn’t
- My SDCard HxC 2001 Floppy Emulator Adventure
- A Trove of Apple Promo Videos from the ’80s and ’90s
- Engineer Dave Haynie Auctions Off Rare Commodore and Amiga Prototypes to Fight Breast Cancer
- My Build-Out of the Monochron ‘Pong’ Clock
- Classic Apple II Game Deaths
- Not Everyone Gets It
- I Have a Chip on my Shoulder
- ‘ActiveGS’ for iOS: Boundless Mobile Apple II Goodness
- iPad 2 Launch Day at the Apple Store in Clarendon, VA
- FTA Releases Apple IIgs Emulator in the iOS App Store
- Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0 Is Just around the Corner
- Video Games Live! – An Epic Event for Gamers
- Of a Dancing Baby and a Pocket Reference
- A Pixellated End of the World I Don’t Want to Miss
- Damn, It Feels Good To Be a Gangsta!
- The Apple //c Comes Home
- ‘Ultima V’ on the Passport: Amazing Audio from an Apple II
2010 5
2009 9
- The Soul of a New 16-bit Atari Micro [Updated]
- My Awesome ’80s Retro Swatch Watch
- Can A Computer Make You Cry?
- Interesting Computer Ads From 25 Years Ago
- Right Now, I’m All About the Amiga (Again)
- ‘MYST’ for the iPhone and iPod touch Hits the App Store
- The Woz on Dancing with the Stars
- Happy 25th Birthday, Macintosh!
- Playing Around with Windows 7 Beta
2008 31
- WANTED: Mockingboard for Apple II
- A Brick for Some Bytes: My First Hard Drive
- Flight Simulator: The Difference 25 Years Makes
- My Flickr Favs
- Abaton Transform for the Apple II [Updated]
- Retro Gaming Goodness: Space Invaders Extreme
- The Demco Graphics Tool Kit – An Apple II Video Board
- Tempest and Jaguar and Nuon — Oh My!
- I Think I’m Going to Get an Apple Tattoo…
- Geek Classic “WarGames” Comes Back to the Big Screen!
- Radiohead’s “Nude” Played On Vintage Hardware
- Uthernet in my Apple IIgs
- Web 2.0? It’s “Brain 2.0” I say.
- Newton Poetry: An Active Newton Blog…In 2008
- MyAppleSpace: MySpace For Those That Don’t Suck
- My New TRS-80 Model 4
- So…How Does a Byte Cellar Podcast Sound?
- Site News. Tweet Tweet Tweet.
- Turning My Mac Pro Into A Three Headed Beast
- Streaming Live Video From Windows To The Apple //c
- Uthernet Rides Once More!
- Time Machine: Ass Saving. Boot Camp: …An Adventure?
- Epson PX-8 As Mac OS X Dumb Terminal
- A Boot Camp Setup Crysis
- JPEG: The New Graphics Format On The Block
- The SGI 1600SW Flat-Panel Display Saga [Updated 2024]
- Luna City Arcade: A Retro Gamer’s Wet Dream
- New-In-Box Apple //c System Sells For $2,553
- I Left My Heart In San Francisco
- Replaying Wishbringer, Amiga Style
- Adjusting The Commodore 1702
2007 45
- My Games Of Late
- The Next-Gen Gaming Trifecta
- Apple 20-inch Cinema Display Repair
- Miyamoto And Crew Are “Princess Bride” Fans!
- 25 Years Of My Favorite Games
- Super Mario Galaxy!
- It Was Apple Garamond That Sold Me
- A New CRT For The Gaming Corner
- Scans: 1984 Review Of Epson PX-8 Laptop
- Need An ImageWriter II Color Ribbon? Ask Me.
- Newton eMate 300 As A Serial Terminal
- Fun With My New ImageWriter II Printer
- A New Panorama Photo Series Of The “Byte Cellar”
- The New, Thin Apple Keyboard vs…
- “I am a geek. This is my car.” – An Apple Sticker Tale
- BlueFlash: Apple II Bluetooth/Disk Controller/Disk Archive Card
- NEXTSTEP…In My Pocket
- Glorious Six Foot Neon Apple Logo Sign Auction
- Apple //c as a Dumb Terminal to my Mac mini
- Macintosh Plus Gaming Gallery
- You Are Likely to be Eaten by a Grue
- The Saga of my MYST Channelwood Poster
- My Atari 520ST Setup
- All Hail Glide!
- 40 Year Console History Pictorial
- “Thrust” from Firebird Software
- I Did It! See the Space Invader Tattoo in All Its Glory
- Call to Readers: Help Choose My Retro Tattoo
- the Pixelator
- distellamap: Atari 2600 code brought into view
- Found New Time Bandit for Atari ST Retail Pacakge
- The NeGcon: Gaming with a Twist
- WipEout Collection
- The “Newly Digital” Distributed Early Computing Anthology
- Kroah’s Retro Game “Decompilation” Effort
- Time Bandit Manual Available As PDF Document
- AmigaOS 4 Reviewed
- 8-bit Video Game Art Show
- Got My Micro Mate 520 STation for Atari ST!
- Chips & Technologies’ WINGINE Graphics Subsystem
- S-Video to RCA Chroma, Luma Cable
- Apple’s Subpixel Font Rendering is Bugged in Mac OS X
- My Media PC Gives Up the Ghost
- Live Action Hamster Video Game
- My Trip to Macworld San Francisco 2007
2006 22
- I’m Going to MacWorld 2007 in San Francisco!
- Wii Composite vs. Component Cables
- Super Mario 64: Looks Better on Wii
- Nintendo Wii = Retro Goodness
- The Ultimate Basement Mac Collection?
- External Status LCD Project
- A Look Inside Steve Wozniak’s House
- Website Hosted on a Lisa 2: Lisa2.com
- My Apple Lisa 2
- Apple Newton Trumps Microsoft Origami Device
- GP2X From GamePark Holdings: Retro Heaven
- Apple II Game Server
- Baby On Board
- Running OPENSTEP on my Intel-based Mac
- So There’re These Things Called PixelBlocks…
- Running Windows 1.0 Circa 1985 (and a Few Others….)
- Gaming Then and Now: A Side-by-Side Look
- Of AJAX, GATO, and Bill Scott
- Game Controllers: From Atari to Revolution
- Music Video Tells Tale of “E.T.” for the 2600
- Sharp X68000 Emulation
- Apple I Kits On eBay
2005 29
- Photos, Photos Everywhere!
- Minimig: The FPGA Amiga
- Retro Gamer Issue 19 Arrives!
- Retro Gamer Magazine Lives On!
- Apple II Music Video
- The Apple //c Makes It To The Office
- The Birth of the Apple Lisa
- “The coolest watch in history”
- The Future of Retro Gamer in Doubt
- Quite a Memory
- From the Trenches: The Great Christmas ’84 Apple //c vs. IBM PCjr Battle
- HP Fires Alan Kay
- Sorting The Magazines
- SGI Faces Bankruptcy
- My “New” Apple //c Setup
- 1984 BYTE Review of Original Macintosh 128K Online
- Retro Machines and Old Data
- New Apple SuperDrive and Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card
- AppleCrate: Apple II Parallel Computing
- Airball GS by Jason Harper
- Take a Turn About the Byte Cellar
- The Passing of Jef Raskin
- The “Certain Impact” of RAM Failure…
- A Bit Out of Hand…
- My HP 9000 712/60 “Gecko” Workstation Featuring HP “Color Recovery” Technology
- Retro Gamer Made Me Famous…
- My Commodore 64…and The Stand…
- The Vintage Computer Festival
- The Commodore One ( C-One )
2004 34
- Leander Kahney’s The Cult of Mac
- End of a Legacy: IBM Leaves the PC Market
- Back To The Newton
- Gordon Laing’s Digital Retro
- “Hey Hey 16K”
- Time Bandit
- Long Live The Newton
- Retro Gamer Magazine
- “Picasso” Macintosh Logo Poster
- Vintage Apple Software
- Wall Invaders!
- Mac LC Found
- Apple’s Pascal “Syntax” Poster
- The Soul of a New Machine
- 1981 Personal Computer Catalog
- Ultima IV Redux
- Farewell Willow
- “Blue & White” G3 Poster
- Commodore 128 History
- Farewell HyperCard
- Amiga 1200 Tower
- Mac Plus Webserver
- Original Mac (128K)
- Commodore 65
- FOSE 2004 Expo
- The Mindset Computer
- Added Discussion Forums
- STart Magazines
- Graphical User Interface Gallery
- Of Folklore and Technical Writers and Whatnot…
- Amiga Developers Poster
- Vintage Magnets
- Original Mac Keyboard
- First Post First Post!!