Month: September 2014

880 Gamer #4

880 Gamer is an English pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this magazine the following articles: News, Cover Disk, Game On: Marble Madness, Pinball Dreams, Speedball, Rollerball, RBI Baseball and Vectorball, Bleeding Eyes: Boing, Jesus on E’s and RSI MegaDemo, Cheat and Talk Back. Website: http://www.users.on.net/~stanners/

X500 Evo

Mfilos is working on his X500. The X500 is a retro looking computer case designed by Loriano Pagni. The X500 makes it possible to built a modern PC with the looks of the Amiga 500 computers. On Mfilos blog you can see how he built his system, including the Amiga keys on the keyboard. Website: http://www.mfilos.com

Vasm 1.7a

Vasm is an assembler to create linkable objects in various formats. The following CPUs are supported: M680x0, ColdFire, 80×86, PowerPC, ARM, Jaguar RISC, Z80, C16x/ST10, 6502 and the 6800. Visit the web page below to read all the changes in this version. Website: http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/

Nightfall's Retro Collection Virtual Tour

Nightfall is a very well-known group in Amiga demo scene, but this post is about an awesome virtual tour of one of the member’s retro collection, for the number and variety of computers. From 2012, the post is pretty old, but since I’ve never seen it before, and it is so under Vintage Is The New Old domain, we thought…

OS4Depot Latest Releases

Latest releases over at OS4Depot are as follows: libboostygfx.lha, diskimage_device.lha, amiarcadia.lha, finalburnalpha.lha, smokinguns.lha, hwp_ahx.lha, datadisplay.lha, xpkdenc.lha, xpksqsh.lha Download and more details can be found over at http://www.os4depot.net

Aminet Latest Releases

Latest releases over at Aminet are as follows: libqdev-bin-m68k.lha, xadclients_es.lha, AmiMag_03.pdf, f12014carset.lha, amath.lha, qboot.lha, NetSurf-m68k-sources.lha, diskimage.i386-aros.tar.bz2, diskimage.m68k-aos.tar.bz2, diskimage_device.lha, png_image.zip, Boxx.lha, HWP_AHX.lha, AmiArcadia_OS4.lha, IconLib_46.4.lha, NetSurf-m68k.lha, AmiArcadiaSP.lha, FindMoreSP.lha, MegaBall4.zip, MegaBall_src.zip, AmiArcadia.lha, AmiArcadiaMOS.lha, xpkSQSH_OS4.lha, Idle.lha, xfdmaster_os4.lha, Wipeout2097SP.lha, OnyxBaseSP.lha, kick2f.lha Download, more details and more files can be found over at http://aminet.net

Introduction to Assembly Language Programming On the Apple IIGS – Lesson 1

[youtube bCSDkjhVM2A nolink] Don’t get confused! This is Lesson 1 but the 3rd video of the series made by Dagen Brock, and the topic is Super High Resolution Graphics (SHR) and the first time using the CPU in 16-bit mode. There is also a PDF document called Crash Course available on GitHub giving more information about the subject. Video: YouTube…

1541 Ultimate is SOLD OUT! Uh!? What!? Wait! There are more in the oven!

The ‘1541 Ultimate’ is a storage solution for your Commodore C64 and C128 home computer. This piece of hardware implements a ‘real’ 1541 diskdrive for Commodore computers, and this is why you should have one! The Project Status page shows that all remaining units available were sold, but on the same day it was decided that a third batch will…

CiA Update / Status

As you may or even may not have noticed the main Admin and poster Kitty has been without contact to CiA for the past two or so weeks. Internet and general real life issues and a current flu illness has put her behind CiA news updates and the usual things she does for CiA and the countless other behind the…

New episode of "The History of Personal Computing" Podcast: Altair 8800 and Kaypro

Listen along as David Greelish and Jeff Salzman discuss the history of the Altair 8800 and Kaypro computer. The Altair 8800 is a Tier One computer presented as the first “commercially available home computer.” As such, it was chosen to be the first computer we talk about on this podcast. The Kaypro was chosen due to a recent and unfortunate…