Author: Paulo Garcia
[youtube rushX-wtDig nolink] The Centre for Computer History in Cambridge – UK has announced that the next Retro Gaming Night is happening on June 26th, from 7pm to Midnight. Besides the obvious retro-gaming-jam, the event also allow you to bring that extra retro game or hardware to swap or sell during the event. The space is limited and you can…
It is now open and accepting new order the online store UltimateApple2.com. The store offers hardware and software products for your Apple II, IIc and IIGS. Henry S Courbis also added on the Facebook group Apple II Enthusiasts, that the forum is also open “for project support, discussions, documents, and software. It’s still a work in progress, and new things…
[youtube PksHJ7wCm2Q nolink] Liquid Kids was developed by Ocean Software in 1991, but it was never released. In 2003, Galahad of Fairlight obtained a copy, fixed several bugs and released it for the Amiga community. Lemon Amiga has published in its YouTube channel a play guide and review of the game. The video runs for almost 50 minutes and it…
The best Commodore development environment has a new version – 3.3.0, containing bug fixes and the following new features: Add background picture to sprite editor. Sprite reorder tool. Character tools work on a range of characters. Assembler: Import binary as decimal data Assembler: Improved value pop-up formatting Assembler: Removed the restriction where files included in a build must have a…
It was announced today on World of Spectrum that the ZX Dev’2015, a competition to write new Spectrum games. The compo is open to anyone from anywhere to participate, and according to the organizers, the main goal is to have some fun, learn, and why not, get a little reward for bringing new stuff for our Spectrums! Ivanzx, from WoS…
Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir, engineers that designed Amiga’s custom chipset “Lorraine”, will be attending on the next 25th & 26th of July the Amiga 30th anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Ron and Joe will be presenting for the first time their work on the Amiga Lorraine chip set, while working with Jay Miner, the…
I saw this link on Google+ today and I was happily surprised about what I read. There is an Amiga 2000 running day and night for 30 years with the responsibility to control nineteen schools’ air conditioning system in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The system, written by a high school student back then, controls the start/stop of boilers, the start/stop of…
ACID 64 Player v3.6 has just been released. If you (somehow) have never heard of it, ACID 64 is a Windows application created by Wilfred Bos that allows you to listen SID Tunes on your PC. The new version 3.6 brought several fixes and improvements: Added 3SID support Added support for SIDBlaster USB device. Latest drivers can be found here…
[youtube g4gBXXWwi7w nolink] Are you ready to watch the new ‘Jurassic World’ movie? If not (or even if you are), how about warm up watching this clip inspired by 1993 original movie, reimagined as a 8-bit retro game? The clip was made by CineFix and published on its YouTube channel “8-bit Cinema”, and there we see Ian Malcolm, Alan Grant,…
If you lost the opportunity to buy these awesome games when they were available on MSX Cartridge Shop, you have another chance! The online store specialized in MSX games has a new batch of both vamped-up versions of Gremlin Graphics’ 1986 classic Gauntlet and Ocean 1986 classic Batman. They can be purchased for 35 euros each (plus shipping) following the…
