Category: Site History
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8bitrocket Consulting Combines with Humdigital.com
8bitrocket IT Consulting has now partnered with HUMDigital.com to provide the full vertical in digital solutions. From ideas to finished product, ongoing support and beyond, the combination of these two consulting companies brings a new meaning to full service digital development. Jeff Fulton is now the CTO of HUMdigital.com, working…
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MEAN Stack Primer
MEAN Stack Primer. MEAN – at its core, MEAN means Javascript. Unlike other technology platforms, the MEAN stack allows the user to rely on a single technology for the full stack architecture (front-end, back-end, database, and MVC). Many people have heard of the LAMP stack. It was and is the…
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8bitrocket Launches New Consulting Service
8bitrocket IT Consulting brings together 25 years of web application development, project management, IT solutions architecture, and book publishing experience, along and the sheer love of code, to your IT project. Owner, Jeff Fulton, has years and years of experience at companies big and small, including 15 years of core…
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Atari Bonanza – Old Stuff From My Attic. 2600 5200 7800 800 XL XE Jaguar ST
Atari Bonanza – Old Stuff From My Attic. 2600, 5200, 7800, 800 XL XE, Jaguar, ST I decided to do an entire Atari excavation today. I went through every box of Atari games and hardware (I might have missed an ST box and if I find it, I’ll add it…
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New Orbeezone.com web site (Producto Studios Project)
By Jeff Fulton (8bitjeff) – CTO Producto Studios Producto Studios provides a mobile makeover to Orbeezone.com. Orbeez, Maya Group’s best-selling product line are the cool fun orbs that grow and change when you add them to water. The Maya Group called in Producto Studios to grow and change Orbeez website…
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International Day Against DRM is Tuesday, May 6th
Here at 8bitrocket, we fully support a DRM-Free world. A place where you control the content you PURCHASE. Yes, I said purchase. There are just pennies on the dollar for the developers of EVERY medium in today’s world of easy stolen streams and file sharing networks. That’s why we fully…
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Big Drill Car / Chemical People Yellow Vinyl Cheap Trick / Kiss Cover 45 RPM (all the crap in my attic)
By Jeff Fulton Big Drill Car / Chemical People Yellow Vinyl Cheap Trick / Kiss Cover 45 RPM (all the crap in my attic) Back in college (1988 – 1993) we followed the local Los Angeles bands ALL, Big Drill Car, and the Chemical People as they played all over…
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Happy Mother’s Day
I entered (and won) a local writing contest for Mother’s Day with the following story about my mom. When she saw it today, she had no idea I even remembered what happened in 1975, much less would write about it. I think I blew her mind. -8bitsteve
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In Celebration of Day Against DRM (Fri, May 3, 2013) 5000+ titles 1/2 off including HTML5 Canvas 2nd Edition
In Celebration of *Day *Against DRM Save 50% on 5000+ Ebooks & Videos (Save 60% on orders over $100) Having the ability to download files at your convenience, store them on all your devices, or share them with a friend or colleague as…
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The HTML5 Canvas Second Edition Has Been Released (Deal of the Day, 50% off)
The Second Edition (so the 3rd book) I have written with my brother Steve, The HTML5 Canvas was released today by O’Reilly. If you are interested in this wildly popular subject (for tech heads), you can get the E-Book edition for 1/2 off by using the code DEAL on…
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Don’t be afraid of Windows 8 Desktop
This (Windows 8 has problems, but it doesn’t deserve the dreaded Vista comparison)says that Windows 8 is only good for touch screens. He is wrong. Windows 8 is just Windows 7 with new “window” dressing and a few new good features. The backup and app search are 10X better…
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Be Excellent To Each Other
This is a story only a few people know. But it has been a year now and I think I am ready to tell it to anyone who is willing to read it. Early in the morning, June 1, 2011, I had a vivid dream. I don’t ever remember my…
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Cracked.com Chose One Of Our Images For “Video Game Plot Twists That Would Have Blown Your Mind”
By Steve Fulton A few weeks ago I wrote an article about my efforts as complete “non-artist” to create funny, classic video game inspired photo-shopped images for Cracked.com “Photoplasty” weekly contests. The gist of the story was that, even though cracked.com never features any of my images, the effort…
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The Day “Retro” Became Cool or R.I.P. MCA
By Steve Fulton In 1994, about a week after I moved out of my parents house and into an apartment with my brother, our cable TV was installed. For the first time in my entire life, I could watch MTV any time I wanted. When I turned on…
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Why I think Side-By-Side Gaming On Mobile Devices Would Benefit Young Children
By Jeff Fulton The modern-school playground, sans technology, not-that-different from-1977 and what game developers can learn from it. My mornings are usually very busy. Normally I am up and out by 6:30 for a work out or training for a race (or injury recovery) and then I hit the Producto…
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New Issue Of Distro Shouts-Out My Articles On Atari For Gamasutra
I downloaded the new issue of Distro, the Engadget tablet magazine today because it had an article on Atari, and what did I find? A cool shout-out to the articles on Atari I wrote for Gamasutra a few years back! The shout-out is to the right. You can download the…
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The best of 8bitrocket Track Back Spam
We get A LOT of “Trackback Spam” that comes in the form of emails to our admin account. These are supposed legitimate requests for us to post “track-backs” to sites that are linking to our posts. I figured it might be fun to post best ones for you to read.…
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Coming Back From The Dead…
We had a near total failure of the site last night. However, we were able to export all the old content, and get everything back up this morning. We will be searching fr new themes and logos and stuff to make this a (albeit forced) fresh start. Any ideas…
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8bitrocket.com Forums Are Back To Manual Registration
The 8bitrocket.com forums are using a manual, closed registration system. If you are already a member, please click here: If you would like to request a membership, please send your name and email address to into(at)8bitrocket(dotcom, and we will get you registered. Why have we down this? Because we were…
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Stop SOPA and PIPA: To quote an old NRA slogan. If you OUTLAW web sites, only OUTLAWS will have Web Sites.
(Jeff Fulton) Even our Book Publisher is against SOPA and PIPA O’Reilly, (our book publisher) is one of the many companies with intellectual property that would supposedly be “saved” by massively under-thought and over-protective SOPA and PIPA online Intellectual property bills, is going dark today (along with Wikipedia, and many other web…
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HTML5 Canvas Game: Tic Tac Pro Quack The Glass – Goes Gold
8bitrocket in conjunction with Producto Studios and in association with TicTacDontion.com is proud to announce the launch of our HTML5 Canvas only game targeted to work on ANY HTML5 browser platform (mobile or desktop). 8bitrocket and Producto Studios did all of the game programming in HTML5 and TicTacDonation.com provided the…
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New Forum Redux
A couple notes about the new forums. 1. the permissions have been updated so registered users can post in all forums 2. Registering requires admin approval now, as the “human spam bots” are causing issues. -8bitsteve
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New Forums To Focus On HTML5 Game And App Development (with Flash and Corona too)
We’ve had a lot of requests to start a forum for HTML5 Game and App developers. Since we use HTML5, Flash, Corona, and other tech too, we decided to try a new forum for all that stuff too. This is really just a fresh install of PHP BB with some…
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Help me pick a new smart Verizon mobile phone
I need to get a new Verizon phone but have absolutely no idea what to get. I am pretty sure I am not inside any discount renewal period, so I need to consider the full cost of a new device in my choice. I had an iPhone recently, but had…
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The Mac / Flash Develop / Parallels decision…sort of
For the last 30 days (according to the Flash Builder 4 trial countdown) I have been trying to get FB4 on the Mac (in conjunction with Flash CS5) to work as well as my Flash Develop / Flash CS3 in Windows did for years. I have now really given Flash…
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8bitrocket Flash, Indie Game, Retro Interweb In-Box Round-Up
I have been sunk deep into a couple projects over the last couple weeks and during that time I have not had time to post. There are some cool new things going on that I have had the pleasure to take a look at and my inbox has been filled…
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Kraft NFL Huddle To Fight Hunger Augmented Reality Game Goes Live
The latest project of mine to go live is a cool little “Augmented Reality” game that I coded in conjunction with Total Immersion and Producto studios. The game uses the Total Immersion Augmented Reality web-cam technology to control the action rather than simply using the mouse. This means that you…
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8bitrocket Indie Game Interweb Mashup – Monday, September 13, 2010
Here is the old 8bitrocket Flash Indie Game Interweb Mashup reborn (ever so slightly) as an all-encompassing Indie-Game mashup. The focus is on Flash games development, but I will cover and will continue to cover all of the subjects that I am interested in: retro games, HTML5 and other game…
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8bitrocket Industry Feed Page
One of the new features we implemented when we moved to WordPress was a GameTab-like page that lists the latest posts across a number of our favorite Flash and other game blog sites. We call this the Industry Feed page and you can access it here (along with the top-nav…
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Help – Trackback spam
We are new to the WordPress world. While 99.99% of everything in this new land is awesome, there a a few annoyances. The biggest is the literal flood of Trackback link spam from “viral marketing” and “affiliate workers”. We get dozens of track-back link spam to mostly (99%) complete crap…
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8bitrocket.com Declares Today As Landon Donovan Day!
Let July 23rd, 2010 forever be known as Landon Donovan Day!
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Js-Kit Echo Testing New Comments System Please Help: Update: Buggy As All Hell
Update: It seems like Js-Kit is buggy as all hell. I’ll be moving on to Disqus later today. It will allow me to import old comments too. We are testing our new JS-Kit comments system below. Please help us by adding something. The old comments have been removed (for now)
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Disqus Testing : Please Help By Posting A comment
So now we are testing the Disqus comments engine. Please help by posting a comment. (I know it’s ugly, we have not played with the CSS yet)
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Ning Is No More, Please join Us On Disqus, Integrated Into The site
So we had to shut-down our Ning.com site today. We did not want anyone to use it any longer, as Ning.con is having problems, and need to have something solid to support our books and tutorials. Please join us using Disqus. Right now it is solely for blog comments, but…
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8bitrocket.com Now Using The Ning.com Social Networking Platform
We’ve needed to create a bit more depth to this site for a long time, and with our book coming out next month, we thought it might be time to add forums and other “social” aspect back to 8bitrocket.com. We dabbled in with a message board a couple years ago,…
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FIOS, DSL and Verizon. I want to laugh and I want to cry #1(Updated)
FIOS, DSL and Verizon. I want to laugh and I want to cry #1 **** Update **** Last Thursday, as I was getting into my car to leave for work, someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was a Verizon technician. He took a look around and said, “Yep” conduit…
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8bitrocket Still Tweeting…
OK, we are still Tweeting… http://static.twitter.com/flash/widgets/profile/TwitterWidget.swf
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Game Programming Tutorials: What Would You Like To See?
Hey all you 8bit Rocketeers out there! Jeff and I have been culling through our email and web traffic info over the past few days in a quest to figure out what type of content to fill this site with. What we discoverd was this: People love tutorials. So, that is…
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Calling All developers: Have You Used Our Code Or Tutorials For a Game?
Jeff and I were talking yesterday and we realized that many people have used our tutorials and code for games and we have no idea who they are! In fact, we don’t really have a clue about who the people are that have made use of any of the things…
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Technical Difficulties (Updated!)
We are were experiencing some technical difficulties with the hosting of the site. If you try to leave a comment you will get a .net “Yellow Screen Of Beauty” get a new Captcha Control to help prevent nefarious messages, etc. If you have a chance and would like to help…
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