LinkAngel.com » Historic Technology http://www.linkangel.com Applied Entrepreneurship & Technology Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 A Tribute to the Bitmap Brothers Game Development Company http://www.linkangel.com/2008/03/29/a-tribute-to-the-bitmap-brothers-game-development-company/ http://www.linkangel.com/2008/03/29/a-tribute-to-the-bitmap-brothers-game-development-company/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:32:47 +0000 Ranjan Chari http://www.linkangel.com/2008/03/29/a-tribute-to-the-bitmap-brothers-game-development-company/ In the 1990s, the Bitmap Brothers produced some of the most cutting edge and highly successful cult games for the Amiga and a few titles for the PC. This British video game developer produced games in the 1990s that seem very similar to games of today. The game ‘Z’ is very similar to Command and Conquer. Here is a video review of  some of their most successful titles.

The Chaos Engine
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Xenon 2
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Z
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Cadaver
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Gods
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]]> http://www.linkangel.com/2008/03/29/a-tribute-to-the-bitmap-brothers-game-development-company/feed/ 0 100 Amiga Games in 10 Minutes http://www.linkangel.com/2008/03/29/100-amiga-games-in-10-minutes/ http://www.linkangel.com/2008/03/29/100-amiga-games-in-10-minutes/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:57:08 +0000 Ranjan Chari http://www.linkangel.com/2008/03/29/100-amiga-games-in-10-minutes/ There was an Amiga equivalent about a decade ago for almost every top ranked game today. This a good selection of what was possible with the amazing Amiga.

100 Amiga Games in 10 Minutes
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]]> http://www.linkangel.com/2008/03/29/100-amiga-games-in-10-minutes/feed/ 0 The Antikythera Mechanism – The Lost Computer http://www.linkangel.com/2008/01/12/the-antikythera-mechanism-the-lost-computer/ http://www.linkangel.com/2008/01/12/the-antikythera-mechanism-the-lost-computer/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:37:35 +0000 Ranjan Chari http://www.linkangel.com/?p=67 A curious mechanical gadget found in an ancient Roman shipwreck that sank off the island of Antikythera near the Greek coast around 65 B.C., provides evidence that in the second century B.C. someone had been able to create a highly complex computing mechanism that was hundreds of years ahead of the technical abilities of its time. According to scientists who examined this mechanism, it was supposed to be a mechanical representation of the irregularities of the Moon’s orbit over the sky. This device utilizes a complex system of gears to achieve its objective of representing the moon’s orbit.

Now, one can only think that if mankind had been able to benefit from the workings of this invention, how much ahead would the world have been today? A mechanism of similar complexity was not seen again for another 1000 years. This illustrates why the the advancement of human civilization lies in the ability to share technology.

Click here for an excellent article in the New Yorker magazine

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