User:Dgpop
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Most of my edits are on video game and computer history topics. I've cleaned-up many older game articles that had become disorganized. I've done major restructuring and editing of some large articles: TI-99/4A, TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST.
Articles I've created[edit]
Listed chronologically within each section.
People[edit]
Video games[edit]
- Two Tigers
- Rainbow Walker
- Preppie!
- Getaway!
- Dimension X
- Spider Fighter
- Mystic Marathon
- Drelbs
- Wavy Navy
- Pacific Coast Highway
- Canyon Climber
- Mad Planets
- Axis Assassin
- Maze Craze
- Boulders and Bombs
- Treasure Island
- Super Breakout
- Triple Punch
- Space Jockey
- Chopper Hunt
- Lost Tomb
- Star Maze
- Quest of the Space Beagle
- Airstrike
- Floyd of the Jungle
- Track Attack
- Preppie! II
- Baja Buggies
- Bristles
- A.E.
- Kid Grid
- Desert Falcon
- The Sands of Egypt
- Crisis Mountain
- Threshold
- Pool 1.5
- Action Quest
- Rosen's Brigade
- Dodge Racer
Other[edit]
Some stuff I've worked on[edit]
Listed alphabetically within each section.
Video games[edit]
- 2048
- Asteroids
- Astro Chase
- Avalanche
- Aztarac
- Black Magic
- Blaster
- Blitz
- Blue Max 2001
- Breakout
- The Adventures of Captain Comic
- Caverns of Mars
- Centipede
- Crack'ed
- Cranston Manor
- Dandy
- Defender
- Donkey Kong
- Donkey Kong Jr.
- Elevator Action
- Encounter!
- Food Fight
- Frogger
- Frogger II
- Galahad and the Holy Grail
- Glider
- Head On
- Hex
- Jungle Hunt
- Jr. Pac-Man
- Kangaroo
- Keystone Kapers
- K-Razy Shoot-Out
- Laser Hawk
- Manic Miner
- Mario Bros.
- Mattel Auto Race
- Mercenary
- MIDI Maze
- Missile Command
- Money Munchers
- Moon Patrol
- Munch Mobile
- Orc Attack
- Pitfall!
- Planetoids
- Ponpoko
- Popeye
- Professor Pac-Man
- Rally Speedway
- Rescue
- River Patrol
- Solo Flight
- Space Dungeon
- Spy vs. Spy
- Star Wars
- Tapper
- Taxman
- Time Pilot
- Tutankham
- Video Pinball
- Word Zapper
- Zaxxon
- Zoo Keeper
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Other tech[edit]
- A86
- Michael Abrash
- Action!
- Amiga
- Apple II
- Apple II series
- Apple IIGS
- Apple III
- Applesoft BASIC
- ANALOG Computing
- Atari 8-bit computers
- Atari 8-bit computer software
- Atari BASIC
- Atari Falcon
- Atari Logo
- Atari Pascal
- Atari Program Exchange
- Atari ST
- Blitter
- Compact Computer 40
- De Re Atari
- Jeri Ellsworth
- FP
- Hope
- Lotus Jazz
- Megamax C
- Motorola 68000
- Motorola 6809
- Movie Maker (Reston Publishing)
- Music Construction Set
- Optimized Systems Software
- Sprite
- TI-99/4A
- TMS34010
- TMS9918
- TRS-80 Color Computer
- VIC-20
- Zilog Z8000
Other other[edit]
Lists[edit]
Templates[edit]
Categories[edit]
For reference[edit]
DOS vs. MS-DOS[edit]
MS-DOS was released in 1981 along with an IBM rebranded version, IBM PC DOS. For the first seven years of the IBM PC's existence, that was the story: MS-DOS or MS-DOS under a different name. On May 28, 1988, Digital Research released their enhanced, MS-DOS compatible operating system as DR-DOS. Since then there has been a clone of MS-DOS designed for embedded systems (ROM-DOS), a clone developed in Russia (PTS-DOS), and an open source clone (FreeDOS). My interpretation is that there's MS-DOS and clones of MS-DOS, and it's fair to lump the entire group under the MS-DOS header.
A more revisionist view is that there's a family of disk operating systems for IBM PC compatibles, and one of those is MS-DOS. The collective name for this family is "DOS." Complicating things is that "DOS" is both a general acronym for disk operating system and within various communities it's shorthand for a particular system's DOS (e.g., Atari DOS, Commodore DOS).
I used to go out of my way to replace DOS with MS-DOS, but I no longer do this, even though the DOS slang feels more and more incorrect as time goes by.
Tech company name prefixes[edit]
Amiga, 
Commodore Amiga- GameCube, Nintendo GameCube
- Master System, Sega Master System
- TI-99/4A, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
- TMS34010, Texas Instruments TMS34010
- VIC-20, Commodore VIC-20
- ZX Spectrum, Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Sometimes the name doesn't work without the manufacturer, such as Apple II and Atari ST, but in general there's no reason to add bulk repeating company names.
Apple II[edit]
There are many links to Apple II series which are renamed "Apple II", demonstrating that Apple II is the clearest, most obvious starting point for that line of computers. This is the right thing to do:
- Rename the current Apple II article to Apple II (1977 computer).
- Rename Apple II series to Apple II.
Other[edit]
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| WOW! So you're the other person on Wikipedia who comprehends correct tense! I bet I've edited 100 articles to eliminate the childishly nostalgic past tense about classic technology. The stuff about Amiga and Nintendo has been a bear, and there is a perpetual tense edit war on Nintendo Power, lol. So if the product was a computer, then when did it become something else and what did it become then? :-D — Smuckola(talk) 18:57, 23 November 2015 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence | |||
Thank you for all your service to WP:APPLE. I meant to include you in the recent mass messaging but here it is. So please check my new Welcome message and see what you think. — Smuckola(talk) 08:50, 19 March 2019 (UTC) | ||||
