The Tablet in Action
Fancying myself somewhat of an artiste, I decided to try my hand at drawing some various-colored circles and rectangles on the screen. It worked. After three hours with AtariArtist, I came to the conclusion that it’s just like Photoshop, except that you can’t photorealistically graft human breasts onto an elephant. But the software was pretty decent for 1984, and I considered myself proud to have known the Touch Tablet in its authentic Atari glory.
More tech nostalgia on Technologizer:
The Golden Age of Electronic Games, 1969-1989
Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas
The Secret Origins of Clippy: Microsoft’s Bizarre Animated Character Patents
January 20th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Interesting! Although I hate how all you tech blogs display one image per page with one or two sentences. Adblockplus saved me from giving you too much advertising money…
January 20th, 2009 at 7:12 am
“Adblockplus saved me from giving you too much advertising money…”
Free content in return for eyeballs. Congratulations: you’re a ***.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:32 am
I do agree about the paragraph-per-page fad that a lot of blogs are doing. In fact, as much as I think I’d like this article, I am not going to read it because it’s 14 pages long. Hopefully they drop this fad because it annoys readers and they’re going to start seeing viewing numbers drop.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:01 am
I don’t block ads out of principle, but have little sympathy for ones that make reading the content harder (flash, multiple pages, slow loading etc.). I am not clicking next 13 times, no matter how interesting this might be. Sites that do this need to stop.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:04 am
one sentence per page = not reading
January 20th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Ditto that: when I saw this article had 14 separate pages, I decided to pass. I can read the whole article faster than a high-speed network will deliver two pages. I hate waiting for page after page after page of postage-stamp-sized (to wit: one modest paragraph and one image) content, when I could view & read the entire content on my two-monitor setup in seconds.
While writing this, I was intrigued by the link to “The Thirteen Greatetst Error Messages of All Time”, but again balked when realizing it would likely be at least 13 pages.
I don’t mind trading eyeballs for content, but this is rediculous. 12 windows full of ads just to get at 1/14th of an article, that fraction taking 1/6th of that window? Guys, that’s 1/72th of 14 pages of screenspace – ack!
January 20th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Got to the lone sentence on page 4 and quit reading. The click-to-content ratio is absurd.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I had one of those! Thanks for the nostalgia. I got the computer bug when I saw the TV commercial for Atari computer camp. Been computing ever since…
January 20th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I gave on on page 3… when the article occupies only 15% of the visible page, you’re doing it wrong.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:22 am
14 pages?! Come on. Ridiculous. You should reward all who reached the end. I stopped on page 2 around the second sentence of this article.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:28 am
I clicked 4 times on NEXT, then I gave up.
Such a layout is so terrible… no way I’ll navigate through 14 pages just for a leisure article, with 1 (one) image per page and 3 lines of text on each.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Regardless of how many pages it is, Good review and pics.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Come on, does it really take that much of your life to click the mouse 14 times. Or is it too much for your poor fingers.
I went through all 14 pages, and wasn’t slowed by the ads. I wish i still kept some of my old hardware, unfortunately its in a box 4000 miles away, and i will unlikely see it again.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I don’t mind a few ads for sites to cover costs and earn a living. But this ratio is silly and just earns you an adblocking from me.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:44 am
1 out of 22 relevant comments? Wow. What a bunch of ****. Cant click a mouse? Try seeing a Dr. about ADD or ADHD. Dude cant charge a subscription for this site, cause you wouldn’t pay, so he makes revenue with ads you don’t look at at all (be honest), and the only comments are “The audacity of making me click my mouse button…”
I found it interesting, and want you to figure a way to get 13 pics on 26 pages, to really piss people off. I have Cox Cable internets, so I can handle it..
January 20th, 2009 at 8:45 am
This should’ve been 1 PAGE!
Most people that read content like this have adblockers installed you know, so splitting it up into a ridiculous amount of pages with just keep all of us from reading your site again.
EPIC internet FAIL!
January 20th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Looking at the screenshots, the software seems very reminiscent of the KoalaPainter software that came with the Koala Pad tablet on my old Apple II. You’d switch between the menu and the picture by hitting the button without the stylus being down. The graphics look much better on the Atari than the Apple 2 (but then everything did!) Ahh, the old days…
January 20th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Good god ppl, what a bunch of whining ****s. TBH, I never even noticed the ads until after I was done & was reading the comments. You’d whine even more if this was a pay per view article, so STFU and enjoy it. Or do you not watch the SuperBowl because it’s 98% ads, 2% content? Bills have to get paid somehow….
To OP: Thanks for sharing this blast from the past, I can remember lusting after this when I was a kid. :)
January 20th, 2009 at 9:16 am
It’s funny that you talk about the smell of Atari factory air. A photo or two prior when the diskette was first visible, I could *smell* it in my mind.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:28 am
On a good website, I’ll disable adblock (see how the dailykos ‘detect’ it’s use and show a friendly nag).
God this page format is AWFUL. A pity so many others exited after the first page.. check your server stats to confirm what I’m saying.
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January 20th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I browse the web with Firefox with Ad-block+NoScript and didn’t mind clicking thru 14 pages, since I didn’t see a single ad and the pages loaded fast (I guess slashdot crowd disappeared already).
I guess the review could’ve been better, but thanks for reporting anyhow. Being a Amiga/Commodore-fan 20-25-years, I couldn’t give less crap about Atari stuff, but nostalgy is fun! :)
January 20th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Nice to see this flashback – I was an Amiga guy myself ;-)
Paradoxical that this (certainly expensive) equipment was not even useful.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Incidentally, I’m reading the comments and value feedback, and criticism is at least as helpful as compliments–if Technologizer does nothing but annoy people, it’ll flop in a heartbeat. I am, however, purging some of the comments that simply squawk about having to click, since that point has been made. Repeatedly.
Technologizer is far from the only site that does slideshows–and those of you who accuse us of trying to display you ads and thereby make the money that makes it possible to continue doing this? You’re right–you caught us in the act.
Basically, the content/ad/attention span tradeoff–which exists on all sites that aren’t nonprofit or funded entirely through subscriptions–is self-correcting. Either enough people will find Technologizer worth paying attention to that it’ll thrive. Or they won’t, and it won’t. So far the signs are good…
Oh, and those of you who are so ticked off about clicking that you foam at the mouth and curse and wish horrible fates on the people who made you click–and use the comment feature we provide to do so? You kinda scare me…
–Harry
January 20th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Awesome article. For those whining about it being one paragraph per page, you may want to notice that underneath the title it says SLIDESHOW. One doesn’t list numerous slides at a time in a slideshow. If you want a paragraph format article, look elsewhere. Whining about a slideshow being a slideshow is like going to a movie and saying, “Damn you all, stop moving my picture!”
January 20th, 2009 at 10:11 am
1 page/image – I just thought it was supposed to be a slideshow type gallery. Maybe I surf these pages too much. Most of the Ads seemed to be already cached and just loaded quick. I can’t believe so many people were so “vocal” about it!
January 20th, 2009 at 10:12 am
To all those complaining about the number of clicks:
You *are* aware that this is a slideshow site…right?
January 20th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I have nothing to gain by praising or condemning the site layout, so these are my honest thoughts:
(1) One paragraph + one photo per page is fine. It fits on a single screen, and it’s simple. No scrolling up and down trying to read the article.
(2) 14 pages = 14 clicks. I click all day. What’s a few more clicks? These aren’t the days of dial-up. Each page loads quickly, so what’s the big deal?
(3) Ads are OK. I don’t see that many ads. I have some advertisers pre-blocked in Opera, but I don’t have any other ad-blockers running. The ads that I do see are to the right of the article, out-of-the-way. A lot of “advertisent” for Technologizer site content is there, too.
Great article, great photos. But why did you unbox this collector’s item??? *faints*
January 20th, 2009 at 10:22 am
To all of you who ridicule those of us that cannot click 14 times (especially you Tariq: “Or is it too much for your poor little fingers.”) maybe you should experience carpal tunnel for a few days and then maybe youll understand why we cant. And no, i had no trouble with ads, noscript is your friend.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Any chance of you posting a disk image of the Atari DOS disk, as well as a dump of the cartridge? I know they won’t be much use on stella, but it might be pretty cool.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Harry, it’s not the ads or multiple pages that’s the problem, it’s that there are 14 pages with 1 paragraph per page. If you could have made it just a few pages nobody would even have noticed & all these comments would have been about the article – you seem to have a nice site, think you should consider your users complaints & maybe constrain your articles to 3-4 pages. Just a thought.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:37 am
I made as far as page 7, but only because I’m an Atari fanboy. =) The Atari 800 was my first PC and I have many, many fond memories of it. I’m glad to find any material online about this beloved machine, even if the layout is a bit off-putting…
January 20th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Sadly Atari Artist is as technologically advanced as M$ Paint.
I have to agree with everyone that this form of forced ad revenue is lame.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:34 am
awshidahak – I don’t have carpal tunnel, but I’m now going to ask my carpal tunnel friends if clicking or scrolling is worse. My going in hypothesis is that, even with a mouse wheel, there’s more moving of index finger when you scroll. Of course, you could have a monitor much larger than mine, or some sort of voice-activated scrolling capability that can’t be configured to click. And you must have a speech to text capability, otherwise your 250 (or so) keypresses in your complaint must have set you back for weeks.
My complaint would be the opposite – I want to see bigger pics and more of them. I still have my Atari 400. 800s were for wimps – what with real keys and all – wait a minute – maybe the chicklet style keyboards are what I needed to prevent carpal tunnel. I’ll add that to the study.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:38 am
i loved my atari 130xe more than any other computer i’ve ever owned.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:42 am
That was an ace article!
I don’t know what everyones problem is with 14 pages and ads?? I was so engrossed in it I didn’t even see the ads.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:47 am
I agree with the layout problems.
I usually read little articles from my blackberry when taking smoke breaks. I got through page 3. The pictures were ok, but the content was about 3 pages down. So, wait about a minute for the page to load, scroll down 3 screens, read a blurb, and click next. Lather, rinse, repeat. It was very annoying.
I came back to my desk, hoping there would be something exciting at the end. I was sorely disappointed.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I found another Atari peripheral and unboxed it about 6 years ago. It was the CX-80 Track Ball. A bought my first digital camera about 4 years ago, so I didn’t registered that moment :-(
About ADS, less than half of them passed through The Proxomitron in it’s default config, speeding up the download. Give this old tool a try, as a proxy it works on every browser.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Interesting that all the comments take up more screen space than the article and its pictures combined yet all the comments are on 1 page and the article is on 14 pages.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Thanks for the trip back in time and a good laugh (“graft human breasts…”).
January 20th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
As someone who will be reaching the age of 21 this next month, I was willing to click-click-click because I did not grow up during that era. I personally found it mostly interesting, but that is because I have simply never seen one of these before.
If the content material was anything else, I wouldn’t care. Thanks anyway :)
January 20th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Why on EARTH did you open the box? You just lost 75% of the value of that machine.
The Smithsonian would have been interested, most likely.
Retard.
January 20th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
The two-lines-per-page was truely annoying, but understandable since it was a slideshow.
The problem is more than just a “clicking vs scrolling” problem, and can’t be answered by “Just click on the next page, it’s only 14 clicks, what the heck is that like compared to clicking all day, I mean, come on!”, but it is a problem because of the DELAY.
See, every time you click, you have to _wait_ for the site to load the next page – THAT is what is the most annoying. If the next page were to load instantly, it wouldn’t be so bad.
With a scrolling-based layout, ie, everything on the one page, you can just wait a bit at the start – and while you’re looking, everything else loads in the background. If you have a really slow connection, you can go and get a coffee first, but when you’re back, generally speaking, the whole article is loaded.
January 20th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
“I am, however, purging some of the comments that simply squawk about having to click, since that point has been made. Repeatedly. [-Harry]”
Not only does this site have no respect for user-experience…they also censor comments that cast them in a less-than-positive light.
Slashdot really needs to stop linking to lame, impression crazed sites like this.
Good luck with your business, Harry.
P.S. – I hear there’s $ in cybersquatting domains as well.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Hey, Andrew, I think it’s a trifle bizarre to read the comments here and then come to the conclusion I’m unwilling to have people cast me in less than a positive light on this site. Yes, I’ve killed some that complain about clicking (especially those that wish death upon me or otherwise show, um, a lack of perspective). But I’ve also deleted some which simply said that they liked the article and didn’t mind the clicking.
Really, the main reason I’m editing comments is because the primary purpose of the comments feature here is to comment on the subject matter of the article–and if I left every click-complaint in place it would be impossible to discuss the unboxing, since it would be drowned out by the din. My Web analytics show that many thousands of people have read the entire slideshow; at least some of them, presumably, were interested in the content and found the clicks to be worth their while.
–Harry
January 20th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
The thing with popup ads is that they’re akin to the pushy sales rep that won’t leave you alone when browsing at a car dealership or electronic store. What do most people usually do in those instances? Hmmm? Online marketers and web designers would be better to go back to simple linked images that don’t get in the way of the browsing experience. Don’t be a nuisance, let the customer come to you.
Now back to the topic of the Atari stuff. Was a fan of it myself back in the day. (And still am in regards to the build quality. It’s quite sturdy in comparison to most new hardware.) I’m sure there’s some adversarial stuff between Atari and Commodore, but I’m sure fans of either of those computers would agree that they were much better hardware for the money than the PCs and Apple IIes of the same era. And they were exceptional in comparison as gaming computers. (That didn’t change until the Macs and 486 and later multimedia PCs made an arrival.) Seeing that rudimentary GUI brings back memories of neat programs found on the local Atari-users-group goodies disks. Yes, people exchanged stuff before “don’t copy that floppy” became a mantra and before there was a publicly useful internet. Fun times!
January 20th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Actually Harry, comments are really comments and there is really no reason to make them more than that. I really don’t see why you think they *MUST* be related to the subject material. Of course, you are the admin, which gives you the right to do whatever you want…even if some might give you a BOFH label.
When you come up on Slashdot and have so much traffic, it will lead to discussion. One thing that I think everyone can appreciate is you did not require registeration to comment, you left the door open.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Another vote for more content per page. Interested in your article, but not enough to click 14 times for as many images. Perhaps if it was spread over 7 pages, or 5, you would have had my eyes and my ad clicks. As it stands you have had neither.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
make sure you image those old-skool floppy disks !
January 20th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Loved it reminded me of my first computer the Schneider 6128 (Amstrad 6128) which was a kick ass computer for its time.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Does the 130XE keyboard actually still work? If so, I find that far more impressive than an unopened touch tablet :)
January 20th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Regarding the 1 paragraph per page layout, let me make sure I understand everyone. Is the issue with the act of clicking or the ads?
Seems you’re complaining about having to click 14 times yet you have no problem with the actual adbugs themselves (pixel.*, etc).
Btw, you can use adblock and noscript all you want, they can be defeated. Take a look at the code ad companies use some time – it isn’t that hard actually to beat both apps.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
This is a well-written, interesting article about a bit of tech history, and its worth reading all of it. But the number of pages *is* annoying. I don’t mind ads, and loading time is negligible, but the format seems, I don’t know…completely unnecessary? Even if you want it to be a slideshow (and I don’t know why you would — this isn’t a college lecture), at least code it so that it’s all embedded in one page! Easily, the most annoying part of this is that in order for me to get back to my referrer (slashdot…big surprise, I know), I have to click BACK as many times as I clicked forward. Again, it’s not a big deal, certainly not a hassle (it may the most “first-world” problem so many people have complained about, at least today), but it’s COMPLETELY unnecessary. Seriously.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Hope you sent in the warranty card. I’m sure the reaction of the person processing it at Atari would be priceless.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
If you’re an Atari geek, it’s worth a click per photo. If you’re not, it’s not worth looking at at all.
You think it’s annoying clicking through 14 pages of photos (WHICH YOU DID NOT) how annoying do you suppose it is to scroll through 14 pages of irrelevant comments?
January 20th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Here’s how to make it easier to surf most sites:
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
- prevents unwanted flash content from playing
http://adblockplus.org/en/
- pretty obvious.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
- A Windows hosts file that prevents a lot of ad sites content from loading at all.
Makes life on the web more simple and clean.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Criminy… here go the Comic-Book Guy types again. The webmaster didn’t format the content the way they liked and spoon-feed it to them. The webmaster has to have the nerve to try to earn some money for the service he provides. The whiners can’t be bothered to d/l some ads to see the content they want, so it’s bitch time. The lot of you should get off of your entitelist high-horses. I seriously doubt all you leet haxors are running around on dialup, so the pages quickly with each click of a device designed to be easy-to-use. Have we really reached the point where people have gotten so ADHD and lazy that they can’t even be bother to push a mouse around a table and click a button a few times?
If you don’t like the blog, go away instead of drawing even more attention to it by whining.
January 20th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
I had one.
I remember you could take the plastic membrane off the pad so you could put something underneath to trace it. Why? Dunno.
Now if an unboxing of 1010 Program recorder or the 1030 300-baud modem…
January 20th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
I agree with the others. Us “power surfers” need efficiency when surfing the news. I use a RSS reader and surf through 100’s of articles. I pick about 10 to 20 interesting articles (this was one) but have no interest in clicking through 14 pages and reading a sentence per page.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Ahh yes, AtariArtist. There’s an easter egg — if you click on the Atari logo that you see on page 13, it plays a 6 note song. You can actually go use the menus and draw while this short song plays… This was actually a bit of a big deal at the time, most sound chips on the 8-bit systems required complete CPU attention to operate… 400hz sound? The CPU has to flip this bit 400 times a second. The Atari’s POKEY chip? You tell the chip to make a certain tone and it does it. And there’s a timer interrupt to take care of waiting for the next note. So this music was kind of a hidden demo of this capability.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:00 am
I thought some interesting tidbits about interfacing it with something more modern.
January 21st, 2009 at 1:47 am
I just can’t believe that the people crib about clicking through a few links. More than monetizing, the suspense and thrill of unboxing is highly possilbe with this layout!.
Thanks for bringing us these valuable photos. Guess you are planning to auction it on ebay!
Cheers.
Vinod, India.
January 21st, 2009 at 1:48 am
A cool little device. I still have mine, minus the protective film. I believe it still works, too.
I remember when I first got it. I played around with painting on it many times throughout the course of my childhood. It was my first experience with painting on a computer.
Very similar to the Koala Pad that was available for Apple II. Even the painting software was very similar.
January 21st, 2009 at 7:11 am
I’ll actually comment on the subject. I’m surprised how unambitious the box illustration is. Some squares and circles and lines? Who’s gonna buy it for that? Compare that to the ads for Deluxe Paint on the Amiga, circa 1984
(http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.media/amiga_ad_tut.jpg)
I am not commenting on the hardware capability, just the package design guys who could have come up with something better.
January 21st, 2009 at 7:15 am
I don’t know if it would take away from the mojo of it, but my first thought was “put a screen protector on it!” assuming the surface is accommodating to one (which it looks like it is)
wicked acquisition Benj, preserve that kit!
January 21st, 2009 at 7:24 am
Fourteen pages, each with ONE picture and a few lines of text? You gotta be kidding me.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:06 am
I have one of these and used to love it as a kid!!!
January 21st, 2009 at 8:11 am
love the gallery :) that old tech is so great to look back upon and remember with fondness. i remember when my babysitter got tired of her old NES and that was just the tits for me. i was up to my ears in duck hunt and lode runner for hours of every day of my childhood!
on the topic of the article layout, you should have an AJAX gallery player with the photo up top and a panel above, underneath, or on the side(s) of the photo that is full height/width or split in half top/bottom or side/side with two ads in it. this will save people from having to reload your entire page, serve your ads, and allow people to use their back button once instead of 15 times.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:46 am
Hot dang. I still have my atari from when I was a kid, but I never had a tablet. Definitely a novelty.
January 21st, 2009 at 9:12 am
You totally should have filled out the registration card and mailed it in.
January 21st, 2009 at 9:46 am
I owned this back in ‘84 and I never should have sold it. I even remember unboxing it for the first time, once I saw the pictures here. My brothers and I traced pictures, drew freehand, and just screwed around with pictures. All of us spent hours and hours with this thing.
The resolution was a bit disappointing, but then it was on a TV and it looked great there. One of the best buys I ever made for my 64XE/400.
The tools improve, but there’s something about the good old days.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:53 am
All you need now is to learn how to draw! That was a fun slideshow. I have some unopened video games from way back too, they’re even wrapped in plastic, maybe one day I’ll rip it off.
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:01 am
Wow I didn’t know this even existed! Pretty cool for 84, I might have to hunt one down now.
January 24th, 2009 at 9:40 am
I loved the article, but man, was it really necessary to split it into 14 pages?
January 24th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
# anon Says:
January 20th, 2009 at 8:01 am
I don’t block ads out of principle, but have little sympathy for ones that make reading the content harder (flash, multiple pages, slow loading etc.). I am not clicking next 13 times, no matter how interesting this might be. Sites that do this need to stop.
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What he said.
January 31st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Awesome! I enjoyed it. I may not have ever had an Atari, but I still love the nostalgia of older products. Its why I visit antiques shops.
You brought me my antiques fix today. Hooray! I like the layout, as it was a slideshow. I enjoyed the anticipation while waiting for the pic to load. I’m like “More, more! Yes, I love it! How old does it look? How old!?”, and loved every bit of it. Unfortunately, 14 pages wasn’t enough for me. Oh well. Thank you so much.
May your next nostalgic find require more pages!
March 4th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I still am an atari 800 owner, first one came with 16k with a 48 total ram expansion, remember the HAPPY Drives? I got the mod card for my 810 disk drive…And the old WICO Bathandle joysticks? My kingdom for a leaf-switch joystick that worked like the old atari ones for the PC instead of these crappy potentiometer ones for the PC…!
The thing about the 800 series is that they were built WAY ahead of their time, with multiple specialty chips handling graphics, sound, etc., it was so much better than the Apple in its computing power and built with a lot more quality behind them than the Commodore 64 (I used to repair all 3 in the 80s). The atari had a direct-connect 300 baud modem and even the ATR 8000 adaptor that allowed you to even RUN CP/M…I love downloading the emulated stuff just to remind me of the games I used to love so much and waste SO much time on the 80’s…
April 6th, 2009 at 7:16 am
I was going to check this out. Then I found out I would have to click a bunch more unnecessary times. Stop wasting my time when I’m wasting time!
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I didn’t even click past the first page, or even read any of the text on the first page.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
OMG! I completely forgot about that… Actually, I purchased the Koala pad (not the Atari one), but anyway, it was way-wayyyy back when… Interesting how you can totally forget about something, but then it appears in an article, a conversation, or whatever… and you’re suddenly transported back to a by-gone era… Thanks for posting this!
July 18th, 2009 at 11:02 am
It’s a nice article, but the layout stinks. I’d like to scroll down for content, not reach for the mouse every time I’m done reading – which usually is before the page even finished loading.
People are pissed at the poor layout of this article – and it’s perfectly understandable. Splitting up small bits of content over 14 pages is a waste of bandwidth on both the server and client sides, as well as an inconvenience.