Author: Paulo Garcia
Looks like January is emulator update season as we see so many releases, and probably still more to come. This time around WebMSX 5.1 has been released. WebMSX is a *really* good MSX emulator written in Javascript that runs directly in your browser and works as good as any desktop-based option around. This are the changes: OPL4 Wave Sound (no…
Early this morning, the Internet was taken by storm (!!!) when the first photo of an assembled ZX Spectrum showed up. Then I said in the Facebook thread that I would only believe it there was a hand typing on that machine, and sure enough, Mike Cadwallader not only posted an update but made it a video, not a photo!…
If you just arrived from Mars where you lived for the past 40 years, Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 emulator available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. As an open source project, the emulator can be also ported to many other platforms. The new version 6.0 brings dozens of fixes and new features, mostly targeting the use of new underlying…
Already a tradition in the Retro Computer Enthusiast’s community, the 2019 edition of the 10-Liner Contest has started and will run through March 30th (6PM CET). Sponsored by Homeputerium, the contest challenge all BASIC programmers to come up with something amazing using only 10 lines of code. Since its establishiment eight years ago, the contest has received 312 10-Liners! The…
This is a quickie! Last Friday, Henrique Olifiers posted a quick update in the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing us a glorious picture of the ZX Spectrum Next keyboard! We’re now waiting for it to arrive so we can proceed testing the fit with the case and move ahead towards full production and shipping! Today, we saw another message…
As many software created last century, Wordperfect for Apple IIgs wasn’t year 2K compliant. If you were one of the last Apple IIgs regular users by the end of the 20th century, you couldn’t use the text editor date features properly. Following the mantra that is never too late, Brutal Deluxe’s Antoine Vignau managed to fix the archaic word processor,…
After the long waited version 5.0, we didn’t have to wait too long for the Atari800MacX 5.0.1 version. This versions brings small but important changes: Added support for macOS Mojave Dark Mode – including new Media Status Panel images. Added Inverse Key to Function Key Window. Bugs Fixed: Fix spelling errors in Preferences panel. Patched keyboard issues caused by libSDL…
Virtual ][ is a fully-featured Apple II emulator for MacOS. In my opinion the best one available as you can read here. Today, Gerard Putter announced the immediate availability of the version 9.0, bringing the following changes: Introduction of the “peripherals” side bar, combining the contents of the device and performance drawers. Due to Apple deprecating the drawers feature in…
WUDSN IDE is a free integrated Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, C64 and NES development plugin for Eclipse and a new version has just been made available for the public. The version 1.7.0 brings the following changes: Daily build – Advanced users have now the option to install the daily build with the greatest and latest in…
This last holiday season was great on the MacOS Atari emulation side of things, in many fronts. If you are not aware, since MacOS Sierra release, some core functions used by the Atari800MacX emulator were deprecated and the consequence of that was that the emulator had no sound anymore, and also the full screen was broken. The only workaround for…
