Podcast version of the Shane Plays Geek Talk radio show from 5/11/2019: Computer Role Playing Games (CRPGs) with Matt Barton! Highlights: Shane and Matt Barton of Matt Chat celebrate the release of their book Dungeons & Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing ...
Category Archives: Computers
The Apple II & Gaming History with David L. Craddock – Radio Show / Podcast Ep. 118
Podcast version of the Shane Plays Geek Talk radio show from 9/30/2017: The Apple II and Gaming History with David L. Craddock! Highlights: Computer and gaming history with David L. Craddock, author of Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution. Shane Plays airs ...
Happy 30th Birthday, Amiga! (with photo gallery)
Podcast Episode 5: Dungeons & Amigas!
Here's the podcast for Episode 5 of the Shane Plays radio show from 6/27/2015: Dungeons & Amigas! Highlights: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition and Commodore author and historian Brian Bagnall interview Shane Plays airs on Saturdays at 1 PM Central on 96.5 FM The Answer in Little Rock. It can also be ...
Greetings, Professor… Shall We Play a Game?
Ah, memories...
Hint: If you don't know (and shame on you if you don't), this is from the 80s classic Wargames. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames Broderick ...Mac from 1986 Surfs the Modern Web
Does this video of a 1986 Mac surfing the modern web float your geek boat? It certainly does mine! Love, love, love this kind of stuff. If you'd like to know more, there's an excellent post over at The Kernel detailing how it was done (it took more than a ...
Connecting to Wikipedia via a 300 baud modem from 1964
This kind of thing either floats your geek boat, or it doesn't. My geek boat is floating.