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		<title>Ozemail floppy disk</title>
		<link>http://www.geekrant.org/2011/11/14/ozemail-floppy-disk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing the things you find during a clear out. Here, from 1996, is an Ozemail disk. Australians would remember they used to turn up in magazines and so on, though they were never quite as ubiquitous as the America Online disks that seemed to show up everywhere in the North American magazines. I haven&#8217;t tried [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazing the things you find during a clear out. Here, from 1996, is an Ozemail disk.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielbowen/6342797094/" title="Ozemail disk from 1996 by Daniel Bowen, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6342797094_16cdc66ab6_z.jpg" width="640" height="339" alt="Ozemail disk from 1996"/></a></p>
<p>Australians would remember they used to turn up in magazines and so on, though they were never quite as ubiquitous as the America Online disks that seemed to show up everywhere in the North American magazines.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t tried to see if this one will still install on Windows 7&#8230; in fact for now it&#8217;s still sealed in its plastic.</p>
<p>The Ozemail web site <a href="http://www.ozemail.com.au/">www.ozemail.com.au</a> forwards to iiNet, so I guess they got bought out by them somewhere along the line &#8212; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OzEmail">in 2005 according to Wikipedia</a>.</p>
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		<title>8-bit fonts</title>
		<link>http://www.geekrant.org/2011/04/17/8-bit-fonts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another one for the nostalgia buffs: a great article comparing 8-bit fonts.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another one for the nostalgia buffs: <a href="http://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts">a great article comparing 8-bit fonts</a>.</p>
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		<title>The office of the future (circa 1982)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From BBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Computer Programme&#8221;. The sound is loud and distorted, so turn your volume down before you click play. I didn&#8217;t think the LEN function would work without parenthesis around the variable, but there you go.]]></description>
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<p>From BBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Computer Programme&#8221;. The sound is loud and distorted, so turn your volume down before you click play.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t think the LEN function would work without parenthesis around the variable, but there you go.</p>
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		<title>How many Commodore 64s were sold?</title>
		<link>http://www.geekrant.org/2011/02/02/how-many-c64s-sold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post for the nostalgics to read: How many Commodore 64 computers were sold?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A post for the nostalgics to read:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pagetable.com/?p=547">How many Commodore 64 computers were sold?</a></p>
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		<title>Donkey Kong on 12 different 80s platforms</title>
		<link>http://www.geekrant.org/2010/08/06/donkey-kong-12-platforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1: Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, NES, Commodore 64, IBM PC (DOS), Apple II Part 2: Vic 20 (dodgy emulator?), TI-99/4A, Atari 8-bit computers, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Atari 7800 With adaptions from an arcade original that had a screen that was higher than it was wide, there&#8217;s an obvious compromise to be made between [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Part 1: Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, NES, Commodore 64, IBM PC (DOS), Apple II<br />
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<p>With adaptions from an arcade original that had a screen that was higher than it was wide, there&#8217;s an obvious compromise to be made between the clarity/resolution of the characters, their aspect ratio, and the number of girders to the top &#8212; eg compare the Atarisoft Commodore 64 version with the Ocean one. Some versions look very squashed.</p>
<p>Most surprisingly good I reckon was the TI version.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.retroist.com/2010/07/29/donkey-kong-arcade-on-12-different-platforms/">Via Retroist</a></p>
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