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Bits And Bytes – Program 10: Computer Music

Chris

January 31, 2018

Entertainment, Gaming, History, Technology

The computers of the 80’s are somewhat well known for the unique sounds they produced. While CD quality audio and digital sound samples are the order of the day now, and have been for several decades, in the early days of computers sounds, and thus, music, were produced via internal hardware that directly generated tones […]

Bits And Bytes – Program 9: Computer Graphics

Chris

January 10, 2018

Entertainment, History, Technology

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Ah, now we’re getting into one of the more interesting nuances of the 80’s computer scene – graphics! While today our systems simply use software to create everything we see on screen, with hardware doing the raw math to make it all happen, back in those days, you didn’t have processing power, memory, or, well, […]