Author: Paulo Garcia
You have to read this! It is a two-part article telling the story about the Amiga, but also touching its main competitors: Atari and Apple Macintosh. At the beginning the article doesn’t start as I was expecting: The Amiga, especially in its original 1985 incarnation, was a terrible computer. The operating system that shipped with it was painfully buggy. If…
This is a very interesting article showing how to emulate an Apple II using a microcontroller, like the Arduino Uno. The author shows how he implemented first the 6502 emulator, and then added the BASIC Interpreter. The first original Apple II had 4k or RAM, and the Arduino emulator provides only 1.5K free, which is enough to run some small…
[youtube LmCQBJkmw4s nolink] My teenager son had a small task to be done in March. He had to create a small game in BASIC for the Commodore Plus/4 and write something about his experience. I asked him to use the actual computer, not an emulator or any modern IDE. I wanted to know his impressions about the computer, the environment,…
[youtube uEZWAcr39lg nolink] Article written by Martin Maly, and published at www.uelectronics.info Everyone who had once owned a ZX Spectrum, surely had at least once seen an amazing loading effect and wondered: How are they doing this? So, come and have a read… It will be a long story and perhaps you might even learn something. Because ZX Spectrum didn’t…
After a long time, there is an update for Uthernet II card for Apple II. The developer has stated that the first prototypes were having problems on Apple IIGS rom 3, and unenhanced Apple II. The card was working well on Apple IIGS rom1 and the enhanced IIe. Based on some help and feedback, a new PCB was made and…
RetroCollect website is reporting that a new game is being developed for the Commodore 64, Sam’s Journey. Featuring incredibly lush visuals and super smooth scrolling, homebrew coders Knights of Bytes have recently released a small teaser of their upcoming title which looks set to put the C64 in the spotlight. Source: Retro Collect Link: Development BlogOfficial Website: http://www.knights-of-bytes.com
The hosts Carrington Vanston , Paul Hagstrom, and Jack Nutting are back in this new episode. The host’s topic is what can/should/do you do with the data you find on newly acquired vintage computers. Link: RCR Website
According to Amiga-News website, since September 2012 Amiga Inc. and later on Amiga Games Inc. have been distributing classic Amiga games in Blackberry’s App Store. At the start of the project, “more then 300 titles” were promised, plans to support various mobile platforms were announced. By now, nearly all Amiga titles have been removed from the App Store: just a…
[youtube uxJRqngnRqI nolink] A downloadable patch to play Survival Kids 2: Dasshutsu! Futago Shima in English has been released over at the ROMHacking.net forums by member hattontown. As usual this fan translation patch arrives as an IPS file which can be applied to an original Survival Kids 2 ROM using software such as Lunar IPS. “For those unfamiliar with Survival…
A2Central has published an article about their impressions of some new products from UltimateApple2 and ReactiveMicro, an NSC successor that is slimmer than the original No-Slot Clock and features a user replaceable coin cell battery. About the original NSC, it was explained that “…No Apple II (prior to the IIGS) had a built-in clock. (…) All alternatives at the time…
