Programming games in the 1980's

I want Arcadia to include some of my retro gaming mini-projects.  I do post a lot of this stuff over on my other blog, and I thought - well, its all about gaming - why am I not linking that stuff back here!

For those interested, I've written a few articles and tutorials...  Taking old-school games from the 80's and recreating them in python is a load of fun and challenge.  Here's a list of my articles right here:

Learning about programming by doing it how it was done in the 80s

• Part 1 - Getting started
• Part 2 - Understanding a BASIC game listing
• Part 3 - Recreating the BASIC using Python
• Link to video presentation I gave at NZPUG
• Github source files from this presentation

Recreating an old Atari 2600 game in Python

• Empire strikes back (w. source code, etc)

Data converting for future projects

• Converting ZX Spectrum graphics into PNG files w/ python
• Playing back ZX Spectrum BEEP's w/ python

I do have a lot more in the pipeline, and I'll post those here as I go...  But for that nostalgiac fix, or just because you're historically curious do check those out. Also check out some of my other non-coding retro posts.  A variety of hardware fixes, reviews and 3D imagery!