Month: February 2017

FS-UAE 2.8.3, FrodeSolheim’s Amiga Emulator Latest Release!

February 2, 2017 0 Comments on FS-UAE 2.8.3, FrodeSolheim’s Amiga Emulator Latest Release!
Posted in Commodore Amiga, Commodore News, Emulation News, Retro Gaming, Retro News, Scene News

A new stable version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.8.3: Fix decoding on non-ascii %-escaped file names on directory HDs. Fixed caps lock. Imported updated translations from crowdin.com. Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.8.3: Show error message when version started is too old (cannot read databases). Fixed save state dir when starting with UUID parameter. CDTV games (from database) did…

RCR Podcast ep. 146: The next new old thing

February 1, 2017 0 Comments on RCR Podcast ep. 146: The next new old thing
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Those fine folks from the RCR podcast have released their latest episode. Paul and Carrington discuss cross-compiling, text adventures, and what they plan to learn this year. But we’re not expected to understand this. Link: rcrpodcast.com Subscribe: iTunes

10 PRINT “BASIC 10Liners 2017 contest is on!”

February 1, 2017 0 Comments on 10 PRINT “BASIC 10Liners 2017 contest is on!”
Posted in Apple News, Atari News, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore News, Commodore VIC-20, Homebrew Games News, MSX, News, PC, Programming, Retro Computing History, Retro Gaming, Texas TI-99/4A, TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo), ZX Spectrum

The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…