[HN Gopher] Byte Magazine - Atari Articles (1979-1993)
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Byte Magazine - Atari Articles (1979-1993)
Author : vo2maxer
Score : 41 points
Date : 2021-10-09 05:38 UTC (17 hours ago)
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| protomyth wrote:
| The Introduction to Atari Graphics was a pretty damn nice
| article. I loved programming the Antic and Pokey (sound) chips in
| the Atari 8-bit computers. You could really do things the Apple
| folks couldn't. Plus, four joystick / paddle ports were fun to
| hook up electronics to.
|
| Does anyone remember the Action language?
| brianpaul wrote:
| Yes! I did a ton of projects in Action! for a number of years.
| Lots of fun and learned a lot.
| varjag wrote:
| Tech writers just don't have this edge anymore!
|
| _The more experienced programmer seeking cybernetic high
| adventure must first defeat the friendliness engineered into the
| machine to unleash its throbbing brute power._
| metagame wrote:
| For anyone not aware, pretty much every BYTE issue is in the
| Archive. If you have a favorite article from childhood that you
| want to update for your kids, it's a gold mine. There are
| hundreds of tutorials ranging from introductions to programming
| for people who've never done so before to incredibly complex
| programming language implementations.
|
| If you're new to BYTE, you should spend a little time exploring:
| https://archive.org/search.php?query=byte%20magazine
|
| A general rule of thumb is that any cover with a photograph on it
| is past the magazine's prime, and you'll probably have a lot more
| fun looking through older ones instead.
|
| (Edited s/picture/photograph at suggestion of TMWNN for more
| concision.)
| TMWNN wrote:
| >A general rule of thumb is that any cover with a ~~picture~~
| _photograph_ on it is past the magazine 's prime, and you'll
| probably have a lot more fun looking through older ones
| instead.
|
| FTFY
| allturtles wrote:
| It seems the very first issue had a picture on it. From July
| 1976 all the covers had full-color art:
|
| https://www.digibarn.com/collections/mags/byte-covers/
|
| So I'm not sure what you mean.
| metagame wrote:
| The first three don't have illustrations. There's one or two
| after that in the "good" run of BYTE that don't. All of the
| rest do. After 1987, their illustrator was replaced with a
| photographer and Photoshop.
|
| <<From 1975 to 1986, Byte covers usually featured the artwork
| of Robert Tinney. These covers made Byte visually unique. In
| 1987, Tinney's paintings were replaced by product
| photographs, and Steve Ciarcia's "Circuit Cellar" column was
| discontinued.>>
|
| I said it was a rule of thumb, not an exact measurement.
| allturtles wrote:
| So by picture you mean photograph? To me an illustration is
| a kind of picture.
| yardshop wrote:
| Fun to look at these!
|
| I was also happy to find old issues of Computer Language Magazine
| [1] which I used to love back in those days even though many of
| the articles were way beyond me.
|
| They also have Nibble Magazine for Apple ][ Enthusiasts [2] with
| playable versions of their code diskettes! The magazine images
| are all in monochrome though as they were extracted from
| microfilm, and one needs to sign up and borrow the magazine to
| see the full contents. It's worth supporting the Internet Archive
| to do so though.
|
| I remember typing in the machine code listings to get some
| software to run, and proofing long printouts on the bus ride to
| and from school when they didn't work! Developing fundamental
| development skills!
|
| [1]
| https://archive.org/search.php?query=computer%20language%20m...
|
| [2] https://archive.org/details/pub_nibble
| pronoiac wrote:
| It's nice to see here! I wrote the index by year comment /
| review, and I wasn't sure whether 1-up or 2-up was better.
| Thoughts?
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