Author: Paulo Garcia
[youtube OHZBGVMgG8I nolink] MSX fan Danjovic, after reading a wiki article about digitizers, decided to create his own experimental graphics tablet using a resistive touch screen. On his blog (in Portuguese) you can read how Danjovic went about creating and testing the tablet, including the schematics for the hardware. He also created a demonstration video where you can see it…
On this is the third post, Wiebo de Wit talks about how to get a collection of C64 software and music onto your UII as fast as possible, and in a way that will make you enjoy using your UII. Link: DevDef Blog
Thanks to Marty Goldberg and his post on the Facebook group, Vintage Gaming (& Computing), we were given the heads-up on John Feagan’s photo and commentary on some early Commodore Vic-20 history. Here’s John’s commentary: “History of the Vic-20 development has been rewritten by the non-participants–but I have the pictures. Here is the real deal developed at the Commodore Advanced…
[youtube 2L9wNzFxEh8 nolink] Petro Tyschtschenko is known for his work in the European market for Commodore International, and later as CEO at Amiga Technologies. Last September, he gave a speech at the Finnish Amiga Users Group’s Saku 2014, and the full video was recently uploaded to YouTube. Link: YouTube (in English) Source: Retrocomputaria Plus
[youtube 2L9wNzFxEh8 nolink] Petro Tyschtschenko is known for his work in the European market for Commodore International, and later as CEO at Amiga Technologies. Last September, he gave a speech at the Finnish Amiga Users Group’s Saku 2014, and the full video was recently uploaded to YouTube. Link: YouTube (in English) Source: Retrocomputaria Plus
This blog post talks about the author’s task to put together a collection of single load / crunched games on a 32meg ProDOS volume that’ll work not only for emulators and the CFFA3000, but also as a standard partition for use with the CFFA v1 or v2, MicroDrive, Focus or SCSI drive. He seems to have accomplished that using the…
The epic battle to end all battles has arrived and the argument that made 80’s school playgrounds buzz will be settled once and for all. Which was better – The Spectrum or the C64? This video was recorded live at Play Expo 2014, with John Gibson and Ste Pickford on the Spectrum side, and Andy Walker and Jeff Minter fighting…
Yerzmyey has released a chiptune album which contains tracks made using a variety of retro-computers: ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Sam Coupe’ and Amiga). All the tracks can be download for free at the artist’s website. Link: YERZMYEY Source: World of Spectrum Forum
ZEsarUX is an open source Sinclair emulator for Unix-like OSes (Linux, Raspbian, Mac OSX, etc). It emulates 16k, 48k, Inves Spectrum+, Spectrum 128k (English and Spanish), Spectrum +2 (English, Spanish and French), Spectrum +2A (English and Spanish), Microdigital TK90X (Portuguese and Spanish), TK95, ZX80, ZX81. Release notes for version 1.3: Added experimental support for raspberry (raspbian) Added Framebuffer Device video…
Quinn Dunki is back again with another blog post, this time talking about how she bootstrapped her Apple IIc. The article is full of useful information and fun to read. “This is a distinctly modern problem. Back in the day, the machine would have, of course, come with many bootable disks, any number of which could be used to create…
