Author: Paulo Garcia
Yes, here we are back with news about Apple 1 auctions and astronomic prices! Today, the Apple 1 up for auction that we posted about few weeks ago, was sold at Christie’s. The surprise is that it was sold for a price below of what was expected – “only” $365,000. Considering that on a previous auction back in October, an…
RetroGamer Collector website has published an extensive and detailed How To teaching how to allow you to connect your beloved ZX Spectrum to your LCD screen using the composite video input. As the Spectrum already has a perfectly good composite signal and there is no need to use the RF circuitry anymore, the process is simple: bypass the RF modulator…
[youtube IpNhWTVQeGU nolink] It is now open the Demo of the Year 2014 Competition, and only demos never released before are allowed to participate, and they have to run on stock C64 without expansions. The deadline is end of February, 2015, and after that, the voting period will happen during the month of March. The video above is the invitation…
[youtube 5zbtNImG2NE nolink] World of Commodore 2014 happened this last weekend in Toronto. Although it is mostly a Commodore party, there is always space to show off others cool retro computers. On this video, it is shown how back in the day one should load a 4K BASIC into an Altair 8800. After all those steps, the computer will be…
[youtube wq2jo0CWFIo nolink] Awesome job on Aki Järvinen YouTube channel: Monty On The Run Metal Version! Link: YouTube
SkoolKit is a set of command line utilities for disassembling Spectrum software, into ASM format or into a bunch of HTML pages. Here are some of the things that SkoolKit can do: disassemble SNA snapshots, Z80 snapshots, SZX snapshots, and raw binary files do a reasonable job of distinguishing code from data by means of the default static code analysis…
Probably following the news about the successful crowdfunding campaign of the Spectrum VEGA, BBC News website has published a comprehensive article about Sir Clive Sinclair, discussing his role on the computer revolution, and also some of his most controversial statements, like his concerns that he may have hastened the demise of the human race. Link: BBC News
Wozpak Special Edition is a 350 page book with the notes from Steve Wozniaks’s Apple-1 and Apple II notes was produced in coordination with Steve Woznaik by Brian Wiser and Bill Martens. Call A.P.P.L.E normally sells it for the list price of $49.95, but during the holidays, it is 20% off at just $39.96. You can purchase it following the…
Julian Hill has published on Retro Collect website an interesting article where he gives tips to avoid fake games on eBay. It’s the nightmare we have all battled. You’ve successfully sniped, battled with PayPal, waited for the item to arrive in the post and pulled it from the box that you paid extra to have it delivered in. It was…
RAPTOR is a high performance RISC-based API designed to leverage the performance of the Jaguar’s custom RISC chips in an easy and flexible manner, allowing the software developer to spend more time following their vision instead of wrestling with the hardware. Last week, a new version was released (2014.11.29), and the developers are asking for help to test and expand…
