Author: Paulo Garcia
ABBUC 2015 software development contest is over, and now you can download Toy’Swap, a match-gems type of game developed for the Atari 8-bit. The developer explains to Atariteca that even relying on modern cross-compilers and emulators for the development, the game took him about 99 sessions with some of them ranging from 2 to 5 hours of development to be…
For programmers and curious alike, I’ve found an interesting article written by Eugene Zaikonnikov about LISP for the ZX Spectrum. Home users had usually to rely on the built-in BASIC or buy 3rd party packages to program in PASCAL, C and other languages. Serious Software SpecLisp is the LISP implementation for the Speccy, and now with plenty of information available at the…
EmaC=s is an alternate screen editor for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 with the Emacs bindings. Another nice thing about this editor is that it is made in Assembler and the source code is available on Github. Even if you are not an Emacs user, it might be very educative check the source code. Link: Github
There are people studying Latin, Archeology, Ancient History and other “Vintage Subjects” all around the World. How about using MSX BASIC to teach your Computer Science studies some coding. The teacher at Dublin Institute of Technology did that. He gave to his students an assignment that made them use an MSX (emulator) to read some code to be then translated…
Engadget has published an extensive article about the Nintendo Playstation, which first appeared back in July. A lot of people were skeptical about the Frankenstein machine equipped with CD-ROM and SNES cartridge slot. Could it be real? Well, it is! “The “Nintendo PlayStation” is now the stuff of gaming legend, with reportedly only about 200 prototypes ever produced. But, as…
DurexForth is a modern implementation of the language Forth for the Commodore 64, and the team behind its development has just released the version 1.4.3. This new version brings bug fixes and some new additions. If you never tried, Forth is a language very different than the traditional ones, so to speak. Compared to C64 Basic, Forth is more attractive in…
Star Raiders is one of the most pleased games released for the Atari 8-bit machines. Created by Doug Neubauer, it was released in cartridge form by Atari in 1979. It was big news last week (yeah, I know, I am late) that Kevin Savetz had received the full source code listing of Star Raiders, and he was about to scan…
Antic podcast is internationally known for its amazing interviews with who made history in the microcomputer industry. On the last episode, Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold has launched a contest that will run for all month of November. Whoever transcribes the most ANTIC interviews from 11/1/15 to 11/30/15 will win a Defender cartridge for the Atari 400/800/XL/XE computers…
A2heaven is a webstore selling modern hardware for the Apple II line of computers, include the IIe and IIc, including the Apple IIC VGA NTSC, allowing to connect VGA monitor to your IIc, and the SDFloppy II, and Disk II emulator that uses SD Card as storage media. Check it out the new store following the link below. Link: a2Heaven
The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes is a 1995 Japan-exclusive action game for the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo). Contrary to several bad Spiderman games, “Lethal Foes” is a great game, with great graphics and action. It is too bad it was never released in North America. Following the motto “better late than ever”, the game was recently translated by fans to…
