Author: Paulo Garcia
[youtube _hxdz6c8bHg nolink] Dave tears down the 1983 vintage Apple Lisa, the first graphical user interface machine that pre-dates the Macintosh. Link: EEVBlog
[youtube mpXRSk4JyCU nolink]The Super 8 bit is a new hand-assembled game console that can play all your favorite NES and Famicom games. It uses the original CPU and PPU chips for pixel perfect gameplay and 99.8% compatibility. The Super 8 bit has video, audio, and reliability improvements over the original systems in a compact form factor. Imported $20-$80 clone systems…
Atari Podcast #17 has a holiday special section where the hosts have given suggestions for Atari-related Christmas gifts. They were nice enough to organize the ideas in price ranges, for all budgets. We are already on Christmas Eve, but it is never late to give (even to yourself) a last minute present! Under $25 Atari Logo Folio Style Protective Case…
Juice.GS is the only printed magazine for the Apple II, and it is now on its away to you doorstep, dear subscriber! This month the magazine is being shipped with two different covers to commemorate Shadowgate, the Apple IIGS point-and-click adventure that’s been resurrected for a new generation of gamers. If you don’t have done yet, subscribe to that great…
Magic Goto is now available, so you can program in Applesoft without ever having to think about line numbers, yielding better organized and much more readable code. It lets you GOTO, GOSUB, or ONERR GOTO a label in a REM statement. For example, GOSUB “showMainMenu” will find the line containing REM “showMainMenu”. Magic GOTO is self-contained in your Applesoft program…
After much tinkering and optimizing, Bill Buckels has released v1.0 of Bmp2DHR, a graphics converter for 8-bit Apple II computers. Check out Bill’s site for the impressive results! Link: Bmp2DHR website Source: A2Central
[youtube YExuMjYb9Eg nolink] If you’ve run short of games to tackle on your Amiga then look no further. The questionably named Love Dungeon is the latest title to hit Commodore’s home computer, an arcade platformer drawing inspiration from the 1984 release Bruce Lee – one which is ready to take your Amiga to second base and beyond. Although the author…
On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: Our Atari Holiday Gift Picks – which is apparently now a tradition on our show Randy’s definitive roundup of virtual drive options Bill plays three new, award-winning games and lots of listener feedback about the Atari 850 interface Link: Antic
Roger Wagner’s Assembly Lines was an important information source for many programmers in the 1980’s. The article ran in Softtalk magazine over 33 issues. Chris Torrence has edited and published this book in close coordination with Roger Wagner under the Creative Commons 2.0 license and it is now available in hard cover from LULU.com for the production only pricing of…
It was released a new version 2.6 of ZX-Paintbrush. The major changes are: Map editing features along with a new file format “*.zxm” Color attributes are now changed while drawing. This is more direct than in previous versions. Link: ZX-Modules
