Tag: history - 2026

• Recovering Hyperdrive, part two: Pulse-width modulation

  9 September 2026 | Series: recoveringhyperdrive | Tags: retrocomputing, vic20, softwarepreservation, history

  

  Decoding Ken Stone’s cassette recording turned pulse timings into readable BASIC. As the words emerged, apparent damage gave way to unfamiliar Commodore conventions, and I began recovering details I could no longer recall.

• Recovering Hyperdrive, part one: a very old cassette

  9 September 2026 | Series: recoveringhyperdrive | Tags: retrocomputing, vic20, softwarepreservation, history

  

  Ken Stone’s old cassette preserved a game I could no longer reconstruct from memory. Recovering Hyperdrive gave me evidence to piece together the history of our early work on Caverns and the games he sold through Micro Parts.