Upon waking up today I looked through twitter, as I do every day, and found Xbox’s “Major Nelson” tweeting about a new service coming to the Xbox brand: Xbox Game Pass. https://majornelson.com/2017/02/28/introducing-xbox-game-pass-unlimited-access-to-more-than-100-games/ This is pretty straightforward service, from the looks of things: Pay about $10 a month and have a selection of full games to […]
Month: February 2017
Jim Sterling And The Digital Homicide Lawsuit Madness In His Own Words
In today’s episode of “The Jimquisition”, Jim Sterling finally told the story about Digital Homicide suing him over his covering of their video games on the Steam software distribution service. I covered Jim Sterling and Digital Homicide before, sharing a few videos on the subject – if you haven’t seen those articles, they are worth […]
Why FYE In Wolfchase Closed – My Thoughts
Terminal Madness – 1980 Personal Computer Documentary
I stumbled across this gem of a video yesterday and thought it worth sharing – a 1980 documentary from Madison, Wisconsin, about the then-new personal computer scene. The video is a little dry in some regards but it proves to be oddly perfect in its predictions for computers in the future – as a kid […]
FYE In Wolfchase Closes Today
The Computer Chronicles – Microchip Technology (1983)
In this very early episode of the Computer Chronicles, we take a look at computer chip technology in 1983. 34 years ago 8 and 16 bit CPU’s were dominant, RAM was measured still in the Kilobytes, sometimes megabytes for larger systems, and CMOS was an “emerging technology.” Thousands of transistors on a chip the size […]
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 1: Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest – Episode Review
The Launch Of Progress MS-05 And The Final Soyuz-U Booster
February 22nd, 2017 marked the end of an era: after 43 years, the final Soyuz-U vehicle launched from Pad 1/5, or “Gagarins Start” at Baikonour Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, sending the Progress 66 (Internally known as Progress MS-05) supply vehicle to the International Space Station. The Soyuz-U Booster variant is the most flown rocket configuration in history, […]
March 2017 Xbox Live Games With Gold
50 Years Ago: The Launch Day Of Apollo 1
February 21st, 1967 was the original planned launch day for the Apollo 1 mission. Of course, we all know the fire on January 27th put a grinding halt on the Apollo program until the problems that caused the death of the crew could be isolated and solved An American wouldn’t fly in space again until […]
The Full Mission Of Friendship 7
If you ever wanted to see and hear a complete space flight, YouTube user LunarModule5 has you covered: One of his hobbies is to compile together actual audio and video of missions, combined with simulator produced visuals and some minor editing into complete, comprehensive overviews of entire flights. Mercury-Atlas 6 is one such mission. The […]
First American In Orbit: John Glenn “Friendship 7” 1962 NASA Film
What launch anniversary would be complete without the requisite NASA film from the era about the mission. In this case, this hour long video on Mercury-Atlas 6, John Glenn’s historic first Earth orbit by an American in the Friendship 7 spacecraft. 55 Years Ago: The Flight Of Friendship 7 As I said, this is an […]
55 Years Ago: The Flight Of Friendship 7
On February 20th, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in his Mercury capsule, Friendship 7. It was a short, 3 orbit mission, but regardless, an American had orbited the Earth and returned safely, which was a key goal of Project Mercury from the get-go. Of course, Glenn wasn’t the first […]