Author: Paulo Garcia
Another bit of Atari productivity tools history has been released. The Inverse ATASCII episode 18 covers the APX Diskette Librarian, published by Atari Exchange Program. As usual, Inverse ATASCII website provides more screenshots and instructions to download/run the program. Link: Inverse ATASCII
A new article at trs-80.org about Microsoft Multiplan has been published. Wait! Don’t move to the next retro-sexy-game post! If you like retro computing story, the author did a really good job telling a short but complete story about the first spreadsheet made by Microsoft to compete with the blockbuster VisiCalc. The article focuses a bit on Tandy machines, but…
Stories of Apple website has published the history of the Apple’s Jonathan computer. The idea was to design a simple hardware “backbone” carrying basic operations and I/O on which the user could add a series of modules, carrying hardware for running Apple II, Mac, UNIX and DOS software, plus other modules with disk drives or networking capabilities. Apple could even…
[youtube odzHl0llccI nolink] ‘It’s a Pixel Thing’ Youtube channel has published a video showing the author’s 26 favourite games for the Amiga. He goes over several Amiga classics like Stunt Car Racer, Pang, Fuzzball, Fury of the Furies, Lemmings and much more. It is a pretty good selection that brings good memories. I recommend watching the video, and even better,…
The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, has named the first six games to its new World Video Game Hall of Fame. Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Doom, and World of Warcraft were chosen based on “popularity over a sustained period”, and other criteria. According to the Arstechnica article, the games were chosen by curators, educators and…
The end of the SEUCK Game Competition 2015 has arrived, and the results are in. Presenting its winner (drumroll), Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller. Here is the final result: 1. Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller – 171 points 2. Gigablast by Alf Yngve – 158 points 3. T-UFO by Errazking – 157 points 4. Snatch McBlagger – 156 points 5. S-F-S by…
Retro Games Collector website has published a super detailed guide written by Graham Axten teaching how to build an Arcade stick for your Commodore 64. The project even includes a secondary button useful to play some of the cartridge games that were made for the doomed C64GS console. You can check the article and get started on your new DIY…
After Steve Jobs passing, the market was flooded of movies and books about Apple’s co-founder. The best known movie is ‘Jobs’ with Ashton Kutcher, but Steve Wozniak, who everyone would agree knew Jobs closely, doesn’t seem to like it. “I think that there were a lot of weaknesses about the ‘Jobs’ movie, the one with Ashton Kutcher, a lot of…
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge will be holding the ‘Arc-Aid: Cambridge’ event on Saturday 13th June, with the aim of bringing together members of the online arcade community to repair and restore some of the museum’s arcade machines. Engineers from across the country will gather to open arcade cabinets, extract circuit boards, solder, prod and probe until the…
An interesting hack version of Super Mario Bros on the NES has been released. On this version Wario takes over instead of Mario, and the visuals are also following its new protagonist ‘style’. The patch is available to download in the link below but you will need a rom image of the original Super Bros rom, It is a bit…
