#gerald jerry lawson

[jmd-creative]

Behind the Doodle: Gerald "Jerry" Lawson's 82nd Birthday

[oleathe]

If you haven’t been to google.com yet, they are honoring American engineer Gerald “Jerry” Anderson Lawson’s 82nd birthday with games you can play but also create giving you options to make platforms, enemies, rewards etc, so you can have a taste of what it’s like to build video games like Jerry Lawson did. 

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[galadius]

he's the reason nintendo got as far as they have.

Gerald Anderson Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American electronic engineer. He is known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console as well as leading the team that pioneered the commercial video game cartridge. He was thus dubbed the "father of the videogame cartridge" according to Black Enterprise magazine in 1982. He eventually left Fairchild and founded the game company Video-Soft

[talk-time-live]

SELECT/START: MARVEL vs. DC DLC WARS 

THIS WEEK, GOOGLE celebrates the father of game consoles on his 82nd birthday.

CAPCOM announces a second CLOSED BETA TEST coming soon.

We got a second trailer for SUPER MARIO BROS. the movie.

Meanwhile, fans are upset at GAME FREAK for the latest installment of the Pokémon series.

And, in our FINAL STAGE I give my thoughts on GOTHAM KNIGHTS – HEROIC ASSAULT and MARVEL AVENGERS: The WINTER SOLDER to see which DLC provides more BAT for your BUCKY. All this and more in this edition of A.C.M.G. presents TALK TIME LIVE EXTRA: SELECT/START

[cow-stealin-gal]

A little game that I made in a Google Doodle

I would like some critiques please

@slimylittlemaggot, @agentldiddy, @skyethebisexualwolfwizard

@snailmusic

[theserpentsnight]

THE GAME THEY MADE ON GOOGLE FOR JERRY LAWSON IS SO CHARMING

IM SO HAPPY TO SEE THIS BLACK MAN GETTING THE LOVE AND RECOGNITION HE DESERVES

[metalone]

2022-12-01 Google ジェリー・ローソン 生誕82周年 82nd Anniversary of Jerry Lawson‘s Birth https://www.google.com/doodles/gerald-jerry-lawsons-82nd-birthday

[wikiuntamed]

Top 5 @Wikipedia pages from a year ago: Thursday, 1st December 2022

Welcome, добре дошли (dobre doshli), tervetuloa, croeso 🤗 What were the top pages visited on @Wikipedia (1st December 2022) 🏆🌟🔥?

1️⃣: 2022 FIFA World Cup "The 2022 FIFA World Cup was the 22nd FIFA World Cup, the world championship for national football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in 2010. It was the first World Cup to be held in the Arab world..."

2️⃣: Christine McVie "Christine Anne McVie (; née Perfect; 12 July 1943 – 30 November 2022) was an English musician and singer. She was the keyboardist and one of the vocalists and songwriters of Fleetwood Mac. McVie was a member of several bands, notably Chicken Shack, in the mid-1960s British Blues scene. She..."

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3️⃣: Jerry Lawson (engineer) "Gerald Anderson Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American electronic engineer. He is known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console as well as leading the team that pioneered the commercial video game cartridge. He was thus dubbed the "father of the..."

4️⃣: Jenna Ortega "Jenna Marie Ortega (born September 27, 2002) is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress, receiving recognition for her role as young Jane in The CW comedy-drama series Jane the Virgin (2014–2019). From 2016 to 2018, she had a leading role as Harley Diaz in the Disney Channel..."

Image licensed under CC BY 3.0? by StayTunedNBC:

5️⃣: FIFA World Cup "The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition between the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has been held every..."

Image licensed under CC BY 4.0? by Hossein Zohrevand

[biglazybeez]

Turning to Channel F

Today’s detour from the vagaries of Surfing video games (still playing, but had a change of plans) involves a piece of gaming history. This fine piece of wood grain adorned set top goodness is from November 1976, released by Fairchild. This is one of the early ones, as it was renamed the “Channel F” (F is for fun) when Atari launched their Video Computer System a little less than a year later. The key is in this feature:

The Fairchild VES was the first system to use ROM cartridges (earlier consoles had enabled folks to use ‘games’ that were really just sets of jumpers inserted into the main console to change into another of the 100 versions of PONG that most of them played). This is notable, as the Chief Engineer for Fairchild at the time was Gerald Lawson (much more info at this link: https://www.google.com/doodles/gerald-jerry-lawsons-82nd-birthday ).

Fairchild only sold about 350,000 units before they called it quits and sold the IP off. Their main product was microprocessors, so this was a bit of a flyer for them. Given the way things exploded for Atari, they came very close to hitting the big time -- anyhoo, the point is not very many of these out in the wild, and most of them need to be acquired as a ‘parts only’ purchase. I suspect this is because the power supplies for most of these (which is hard wired to the console) go bad, or people have no idea how to hook it up to a modern TV to test it.

The one I bought was in such a state. Overall it looked pretty good for a 47-year old console, but of course no response when I powered it on. Checking the power block was the first thing I suspected, and sure enough, the output voltages of the power supply where no where near where they were supposed to be, Looking at the block itself - it has 2 different AC inlets....!?

The nice folks at the AtariAge forums have a few threads related to the Fairchild and it’s other worldly counterparts. Sure enough - 15VAC 200mA is one input, and the other is 10VAC 1A. Having no idea how to try and Frankenstein this coil back to life, I went in search of adequate AC-AC adapters to be able to get the unit to power on. Reading through the info out on the net, and looking through the schematics, there are rectifiers and capacitors/voltage regulators that step these two inputs down to 12V and 5 V DC. To be able to connect my new power supplies I needed to open it up - so here we go...!

The good news is, everything looked clean. Even the caps looked pretty good, which was surprising as I bet they run a bit hot with all the current being fed into the unit. Look at all that metal shielding! it looks like FCC regs were written with a severe concern over RF interference? Who knows. All I know is that there is the plastic case, and then an entire metal case under the plastic case shrouding all the electronics. Even the power supply is just a simple MOLEX connection through the shielding to another MOLEX inside. Huh. I did manage to locate 2 AC-AC adapters that looked like they would do the trick.

So I wired them up to the unit and powered on - I knew from the Atari Age geniuses that there is a small red power indicating LED on the board (under the cartridge port and also under the shielding over the cartridge port, so I have no idea who it is for) that indicates the 5V power rail is active. I verified this was active:

And was thinking I might be done! Too bad - but close - my video output was the green screen.

Before I went too much further, I wanted to chase down the power issues. I ended up just disconnecting the MOLEX outside the shielding, and just wiring power right to the wires on the board (power readings on the inlet power cord were all over the place, so I suspect there may have been some wire continuity issues there).

Once I got to this point, I just connected the video out and holy cow! we’re in business.

PONG all day and night if we want. Plus a bunch of other games, some of which are terrible but most of which are charming. In a sense, Jerry Lawson taught my sons not to hit on 16 playing black jack. Here’s one of the games (Space War) in action.

One thing that is not great, which was changed for the Channel F II was the sound. For this unit, it comes from the console, and has no volume control. Seeing that most of the videogaming that would have been done on this machine would have been early or late in the day when your parents weren’t using the TV, this one factor may have limited the success. Being able to turn the Atari down low so you could still hear the bleeps and bloops but mom and dad could keep sleeping was key to playing time back in the day.

One other item to note is the distinctive but very forward thinking design on the controllers. The knob on the top does all the work -- button presses are pulling up and pushing down. The stick movement is active in all directions, and you can also rotate right and left. It is not very intuitive, but once you play with it for a while the games feel pretty natural. Thinking about how these compare to the Atari joysticks, they have a lot more potential.

All in all not too much trouble, and a fun little project. Very cool that this old beast is now in working order. In retrospect, Fairchild had the right idea, but Atari took it and ran! One has to imagine that if the Channel F had been able to get space invaders, they would likely have done just as well. As it is, they are a bit of a footnote, but I have the footnote running in my house!

Fun Fact: The dimensions of the Channel F cartridges were set to approximate those of 8-track tapes, which were a thing at the time. They were then colored bright orange/yellow so people wouldn’t mistake Burt Bacharach for a Math Quiz Videocart.

[thewanderingswordsman2030]

Day 1: Gerald “Jerry” Lawson Occupation: Engineer Accolades: Inventor of the FIRST cartridge based video game console AKA the home console He paved the way for Nintendo with their NES, SNES, N64 and Gameboy cartridges. His system, Channel F (The Fairchild Video Entertainment System) even pre-date the Atari 5200! He’s the reason we were blowing inside of our cartridges to make our video games work. His console may not have blown up like the others, but he was the catalyst for change in the video game industry. #blackhistory365 #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #cartoons #videogames #anime #contentcreator #contentcreation #content #editing #skits #pictures #thumbnails #memes #blackcontentcreators #digitalcontent #streaming #gaming #podcasting #livestreaming #kthacreator #explore #explorepage https://www.instagram.com/p/CoH1y_OuJIc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mauricecherry]

If you saw the Google Doodle earlier this month of gaming trailblazer Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, then you’ve gotten a sample of the amazing work of this week’s guest — art director and illustrator Lauren Brown.

Lauren talked to me about the ins and outs of her current role at Wizards of the Coast, which includes doing art direction for the popular Magic the Gathering game series. She also spoke about growing up in New Jersey and attending undergrad there, getting her MFA at Savannah College of Art and Design, and shared how she started her career in animation and gaming from there. Lauren is also a podcaster, so we talked shop a little bit about her show Painted in Color, and she delved into what the podcast has taught her over the years. If you’re interested in getting into animation, then I hope Lauren’s story inspires you to follow your dreams!

For extended show notes, including a full transcript of this interview, visit revisionpath.com.

Revision Path is brought to you by Lunch, a multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, GA.

It is produced by Maurice Cherry and engineered and edited by RJ Basilio. Our intro voiceover is by Music Man Dre, with intro and outro music by Yellow Speaker. Transcripts provided by Brevity & Wit.

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Jerry Lawson Cause of Death: Everything We Need to Know!

Jerry Lawson Cause of Death: Everything We Need to Know!

The death occurred at the age of 70 of the American engineer Jerry Lawson. However, the reason behind Jerry Lawson’s passing is unknown to certain people; therefore, we will investigate it here. The viewers of this page will be able to acquire more knowledge regarding the circumstances behind Jerry Lawson’s passing. Who Is Gerald “Jerry” Lawson And What Does He Do? Gerald “Jerry” Lawson was born…

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Gerald Jerry Lawson Net Worth: Early Life, Career, and Cause of Death!

Gerald Jerry Lawson Net Worth: Early Life, Career, and Cause of Death!

Gerald Jerry Lawson Net Worth: Gerald Anderson Lawson was an American engineer in the electronic field. He was born on 1 December 1940 and he died on 9 April 2011. He is well-known for creating the Fairchild Channel F video game system and pioneering the commercial video game cartridge while commanding the team that created it. Moreover, he is recognised for his contributions to the invention of…

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ecco come perdere del tempo ahah