Author: Paulo Garcia
Apple II computer enthusiasts are fortunate to have a very active community and to reinforce that, John Brooks has announced via Call A.P.P.L.E (adding these dots is so laborious!) that a new release of ProDOS is available for download. This is a minor release bringing fixes for the major 2.4 version, released months ago. Release Notes: Bugs fixed: If a directory…
MojonTwins are well-known for their many great games for the ZX Spectrum and other “retro” platforms. It is excellent news for all homebrew developers out there that they decided to release the source code of their game engine MK2, a framework consisting of a modular engine programmed in C and a set of tools to make games for ZX Spectrum….
If you think that paying US$ 15,000 for a brand new, fully loaded iMac is crazy, imagining paying 4 times that for an Apple LISA? Call A.P.P.L.E website just reported that an Apple LISA 1 was sold on eBay for a whopping USD 56,100. The unit is fully functional and came with lots of manuals and software, says the buyer…
CBM prg Studio, by Arthur Jordison, is a complete IDE for Commodore development in both BASIC and Assembler. He just announced a new version containing very interesting new features! Assembler: SaveBlock directive. Repeat…EndRepeat directive. Improved IfDef directive. Start address can be a label. Screen Editor: New export options for assembly and BASIC programs. General: “Go to” dialog can now use BASIC…
Mini vMac for iOS is a classic Macintosh (Mac Plus, Mac II or Mac 128K) emulator that runs on any iOS device (version 9 and up). The project is being around since 2016, but now anyone can enjoy it. Since Apple never allow emulators to be available on the official App Store, Jesús A. Álvarez has released the complete project with…
The long-running TRS8Bit newsletter has a special treat for its readers: a special edition containing a compilation of all BASIC one-liners published throughout the years. The free “package” contains a PDF with the articles that brought the one-liners and a DSK image with all of them ready to run! (although I personally think you should try to type at least…
Back in the early 90s, when I was still living in Brazil and starting my career in IT, I remember to work on a minicomputer called DigiRede that would take several serial terminals and used MUMPS operating system/language. As the time passed, I changed jobs and only worked on PCs. Not long ago I started to remember them and wondered what…
There is a new update on the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing everything that was accomplished so far, including all the help the community gave to the ZX Spectrum Next team to ensure the early problems with the boards were fixed. Now the question that we keep asking! How about the full computers? The final design of the case…
The Arcade Blogger has the best arcade coverage and articles out there; I give you that! And with no surprise, they have published another great one for our enjoyment. This time, Tony came all the way from England to visit the new Miami Pinball Museum and posted an extensive story about it, with plenty of pictures that will make the…
JustinFrancoeur, besides helping with Vintage is The New Old content, he maintains the website www.dcinthe80s.com which as the name suggests, is a webzine for DC comics fans from the 80s. A byproduct of his website is the fanzine, Baxter Stock which is released in print with no specific periodicity. Back in November or so he told me that he was…
