Author: Paulo Garcia
I think everyone reading this has good memories going to newsstands or the magazine section of a computer store and browse the many computer magazines available (when they weren’t wrapped in plastic bags!). Atari owners would look for the Antics and ANALOGs, Commodore fans for Compute Gazette, Your Commodore, and so on! There were also the 300-page multiplatform magazines like…
RGCD has a new blog post talking about Dusan Milivojevic’s Moonspire II project. In order to release a preview of the game on CSDb, Dusan had disabled all incomplete levels but, not surprisingly, cracked versions of the game were released on the same website shortly after, exposing the half-baked/broken levels. This fact almost made Dusan give up and trash the…
RetroShop has been secretly working on an official case for MiSTer FPGA. The new case will allow enclosing the MiSTer board as well as the Terasic DE10-nano. The case is made of FR4 (a composite material composed of woven fiberglass cloth with an epoxy resin binder that is flame resistant) and it was designed by Alexey Melnikov, who also designed…
Last Sunday, the Commodore 64/128 Programming Facebook group was carrying on its business as usual when received an invaluable gift from Michael Archer – the source code of many Commodore 64 games he programmed between 1986-1992. Michael is not referring to some game he made for his own pleasure and kept it hidden all these years. He’s talking about major…
Ricardo Quesada has launched an interesting product: The Unijoysticle™ 2, an adapter that allows the use of modern game controllers, like the ones used on an Xbox One or PS4, on your retro computer It supports multiple controllers (for one or two players), and there is also a new “enhanced mode” that allows you to control the two joysticks from…
This is a quick “heads up”. Fusion Retro Books is giving away the PDF version of “The Story of the Commodore 64 in pixels”. I have the printed version and it is a gorgeous book, full of great images. If you didn’t buy it before, this is a great opportunity to get the digital version for free. To download it,…
Juan J. Martínez has announced the availability of his new game for the MSX platform, Night Knight. The story starts when Sir Bernard, an old knight, has been cursed by a witch prevent him to sleep unless he has gone for a long walk. The hero has to cover 80 levels while avoiding enemies. Sir Bernard can go left and…
XRoar is a primarily a Dragon emulator for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Windows. It also emulates the Tandy Colour Computer models 1 & 2, due to hardware similarities. Because its multiplatform nature, XRoar was also ported to the PS3 and Android. The version 0.35.4 is out, including many fixes and additions, including (from version 0.35): Mac OS X…
Paweł Mandes has posted today on Atari 8-bit Computers Facebook group a link to a very detailed article explaining how you can very easily build a disk drive/tape recorder emulator for Atari 8-bit computers using an Arduino and few more parts. His tutorial covers the SDrive-MAX project, an open source disk drive/tape recorder emulator for Atari 8-bit computers, based on…
We have released a new video containing the April 2019 demo releases. Although the month had only six releases – one full demo and five one-disk demos, the quality is high. To mention a couple, the Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Hokuto Force will take you to a trip full of astonishing PETSCII art with a very “introspective” SID…
