Author: Paulo Garcia
Version 1.0 of CPCtelera has been released, a game engine for the Amstrad CPC, allowing C developers to create powerful games and animations for the Amstrad CPC using cross-compiler tools on your Mac, PC or Linux. CPCtelera is based on the SDCC C compiler, offering a wide range of features, lika a low-level library with support for graphics, audio, keyboard,…
This episode of Inverse ATASCII, the podcast that talks about Atari 8-bit productivity tools, features Typo Attack, originally released in 1982 by APX. It was programmed by David Buehler, a seventeen year old high school junior. This productivity tool is relevant for winning one of the APX Star Award, giving the author a prize of $25,000 in cash. Link: Inverse…
It was brought to our attention this post from Kansasfest orginizer’s webiste that the early bird registration price for the upcoming event will end on May 31. After that, the registration will cost you $55. KansasFest invites any and all Apple II users, fans, and friends to attend the longest running annual Apple II conference. Sign up for the discussion…
KansasFest organizers have published today an invitation for more speakers for the upcoming KansasFest 2015. “We’ve got about 1300 minutes of time available for folks to do sessions throughout KansasFest. With 800 minutes presently spoken for, that leaves PLENTY of space for more signups!” Some currently scheduled sessions include: Techniques and tricks to convert Apple monitors to LCD Sequencer-controlled music…
Coming this August 3rd through August 9th is the Apple II Festival France 2015, at Maska to Castera-Verduzan in Gers. Join your fellow European Apple II enthusiasts for a week of retrocomputing, gaming, hacking and fellowship. Apple II Festival France 2015 is being produced by Silicium and the Facebook group Groupe Apple II France. Link: Event Website Source: A2Central
As we reported before, the SEUCK Competition had its deadline extended, and now that it was reached, everybody is invited to test all the games. Instead of choosing your favourite game, you are asked to give a score from 1 to 10 for each one of the entries. There are 12 games to have fun with and give your score….
Every retro computing aficionado will tell you that there is no better experience than running your favourite program or game in the real machine. The noises, the smell, the keystrokes, everything helps to take you back to the good old days. But unfortunately not everyone has the means (space, money, time, spouse’s approval) to keep that vintage computer around, ready to be…
Jim Salmons sent a message on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group that has got us all very excited. The Softalk Apple Collection at the Internet Archive has already 42 of the 48 issues of Softalk up for you enjoyment. He and his wife were behind the effort to bring the originals to Internet Archive headquarters and get them scanned and…
I made an NES emulator. Here’s what I learned about the original Nintendo. Michael Fogleman has published an article at Medium.com talking about his experience on making a Nintendo emulator from scratch. He goes very technical, explaining hardware details of the 6502 and the NES itself. He wrote the emulator using the language Go, and all the source code is…
Ausretrogamer Website has published an article to bring you up to speed on the 15 electronic games finalists to be inducted into The Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame. The inductees will be formally recognised in a ceremony at The Strong museum in downtown Rochester, New York, on June 4. As you can guess by the picture above, Pong…
