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Vintage graphics I made in 1997 for a version of the 'El Diablero' Adventure Game.
Screen Text:
'I AM IN THE DESERT, CACTUS ALL AROUND.
I SEE:
A BLIGHTED CACTUS
OBVIOUS EXITS ARE:
WEST, EAST SOUTH.
WHAT DO I DO NOW?'
The Original game was based on the Castenada books and was written for the Dragon 32 by Ken Kallsh and is available online to play using a Dragon32/64 emulator.
This is the Xerox Alto displayed at the Fuji Xerox Building, Minato Mirai, Yokohama.
The Xerox Alto was an early personal computer developed at Xerox PARC in 1973. It was the first computer to use the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI).
It was not a commercial product, but several thousand units were built and were heavily used at PARC, other Xerox facilities, and at several universities for many years. The Alto greatly influenced the design of personal computers in the following decades, notably the Macintosh and the first Sun workstations. It is now very rare and is a valuable collector's item. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
Vintage graphics I made in 1997 for a version of the 'El Diablero' Adventure Game.
Screen Text:
NEARBY SITS A LARGE FLAT ROCK. THERE IS A GREAT MOUNTAIN FAR OFF IN THE WEST. I AM IN THE DESERT, CACTUS ALL AROUND.
I SEE:
A LIZARD
OBVIOUS EXITS ARE:
EAST.
WHAT DO I DO NOW? GO ROCK
I AM ON A HUGE, FLAT ROCK. SOMEHOW, I BEGIN TO FEEL ANXIOUS.
I SEE:
NOTHING.
OBVIOUS EXITS ARE:
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH.
WHAT DO I DO NOW? GAZE ROCK
IT HAS A SUBTLE YELLOW GLOW TO IT!'
The Original game was based on the Castenada books and was written for the Dragon 32 by Ken Kallsh and is available online to play using a Dragon32/64 emulator.
Look at the Nikon D200 screen. You will see a picture of the HP Computer the camera is sitting on ;-)
In the movie "Wargames", there is a huge map of the world in the NORAD control room. This visualization was recorded frame by frame on 35mm film using HP 9845C graphics workstations.
The Nixdorf 820 family had a unique core memory, which acted as ROM and was quite simple to produce. The picture shows a device for threading those memorys. Only the lit green cores needs to get wired. The system was controlled by a punch tape. There is only a German entry in Wikipedia to the system: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixdorf_System_820
Vintage graphics I made in 1997 for a version of the 'El Diablero' Adventure Game.
Screen Text:
'I AM IN THE DESERT, CACTUS ALL AROUND.
I SEE:
NOTHING.
OBVIOUS EXITS ARE:
NORTH, EAST.
WHAT DO I DO NOW?'
The Original game was based on the Castenada books and was written for the Dragon 32 by Ken Kallsh and is available online to play using a Dragon32/64 emulator.
HP 19C and HP 29C calculators and their data sheet 1978. They share the same function set but only the HP 19C has a tiny build in thermo printer.
Vintage graphics I made in 1997 for a version of the 'El Diablero' Adventure Game.
Screen Text:
'I AM NEXT TO A SMALL POOL OF YELLOW WATER; I AM IN THE DESERT,AT THE UPPER EDGE OF A DEEP CANYON.
I SEE:
NOTHING
OBVIOUS EXITS ARE:
WEST, EAST, SOUTH.
WHAT DO I DO NOW?'
The Original game was based on the Castenada books and was written for the Dragon 32 by Ken Kallsh and is available online to play using a Dragon32/64 emulator.
Cassette box for "The Diabolical Tower", an adventure game for the 48K Oric 1 or Oric Atmos. It was produced by the French software company No Man's Land and released in 1984. The authors were Laurent Larbalette and Ann Fournier.
Most of these machines are NTSC based and imported directly from the US, most of the home compters are well known here as well: KIM-1 and SYM-1, HP-85A, VIC-20, TI-99/4A, Atari MegaST, Amiga 1200 and others.
Most of these racks interfacing the old instruments and the old control computer can go too. Most of them are still powered on but doing absolutely nothing because of aiieeeee! The tentacles!
This is an open sourced replia of the Schickard calcuating machine from ca. 1621. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Schickard and github.com/jnweiger/Schickard for details.
Vintage graphics I made in 1997 for a version of the 'El Diablero' Adventure Game.
Screen Text:
'I AM IN THE DESERT, AT THE UPPER EDGE OF A DEEP CANYON.
I SEE:
NOTHING.
OBVIOUS EXITS ARE:
WEST, EAST, SOUTH.
WHAT DO I DO NOW?
'
The Original game was written for the Dragon 32 by Ken Kallsh and is available online to play using a Dragon32/64 emulator.
Vintage graphics I made in 1997 for a version of the 'El Diablero' Adventure Game.
'I AM IN THE DESERT, CACTUS ALL AROUND.
I SEE:
NOTHING.
OBVIOUS EXITS ARE:
NORTH, EAST.
WHAT DO I DO NOW?'
The Original game was based on the Castenada books and was written for the Dragon 32 by Ken Kallsh and is available online to play using a Dragon32/64 emulator.
Walther originally built weapons (and does so again nowadays). After end of WWII, German companies were forbidden to built weapons, so Walther moves towards mechanical calculators in order to keep their highly skilled mechanics in work.
The Dura 1041 is a Selectric typewriter with paper tape reader and punch. The table it sits on contains spools for the input and output tapes. As I clean it up I'll update 45baud.net/Dura_1041