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Retro-Repair Adventures, Part 3
Sun, 06/02/2013 - 8:50pm — Shawn Delahunty
!["Doing the Shatner..."](http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/files/images/the_shatner_rub.img_assist_custom-200x150.png ""Doing the Shatner..."") "Doing the Shatner..."
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Secrets of the Machine - A Roadmap on Paper...Hello everyone! I hope that your Summer is beginning well, and that nice weather showed up with it for Memorial Day. In this third installment of "The Retro Repair Adventures", we're going to take a closer look at the truly AMAZING documentation which came with the VIC-20 right out of the box. Then I'll take you through some of the other programming books gifted to me on that fateful Christmas, so long ago. I will also explain in further detail how this documentation enabled me to effect a repair for the "glitchy characters" which my ailing VIC-20 displayed in the last episode. |
Retro-Repair Adventures, Part 2
Tue, 05/14/2013 - 8:51pm — Shawn DelahuntyRetro-Repair Adventures:
- Part One
- Part Two (You're here already. Quit clicking.)
- Part Three
- Part Four - (coming somewhat less soon)
The Retro-Repair Adventures, Part 1
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 9:01pm — Shawn Delahunty
 Shatner & The VIC-20
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How to do "The Shatner Rub"...Hello my fellow Armchair Arcadians! It's good to be back. Didn't mean to be gone so long again, but hey, Life happens. This time, I'm putting on my "Engineer Hat" (with the mandatory pocket-protector), and taking you on a Retro-Repair Adventure. In this first installment, we'll be delving into my own computing, programming, and gaming past. I'll take it easy to begin with, by giving you a close look at my very own, very beloved, and very much malfunctioning Commodore VIC-20. (We'll get to the nitty-gritty details of the electronics repair in my next posting.) |
Mark plays... Cloak and Dagger (Arcade) (Atari 1984)
Sun, 02/17/2013 - 9:30am — Mark VasierCloak and Dagger - a cool dual stick video game created by Atari back in 1984. It is closely tied into a movie with the same name:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087065/
(Cloak & Dagger is a 1984 film directed by Richard Franklin starring Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman and Michael Murphy. It is a remake of the 1949 film The Window. It was originally released in a double feature with The Last Starfighter on July 13, 1984 and then released separately on August 10, 1984.)
It was supposed to be released on the Atari 5200 but due to the video game crash that never happened. A cool bit of information about this game can be found over at AtariHQ:
http://www.atarihq.com/5200/5200faq/02_06.html
