Author: Paulo Garcia
There is never too many magazines around, and we are happy to see Call A.P.P.L.E is also contributing to the community with a magazine with excellent content. The 36-pages Jan/Feb issue is available to all A.P.P.L.E (Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange) members with the following content: – Akalabeth: The Beginning of a Legacy – Steve Jobs: The Quiet Philanthropist – GBBS Pro:…
You know you are getting older when the emulator that let you play older games is already 20 years old. Yes, MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) has turned 20, and it is better than ever! During this 20 years, MAME made possible for everyone to revive (old people) or experience for the first time (youngsters) thousands of amazing coin-op machines…
Introduction Back in the 80’s, the Brazilian government restricted the importation of microcomputers to help the local industry to develop. That was a great opportunity for those companies to create clones of the most important computers of the time: Sinclair ZX-81, TRS-80, Apple and later on, IBM PC. One of the biggest microcomputer manufacturers at the time was Prologica Computadores. The…
Victor Trucco, one of the masterminds behind the Spectrum Next posted today on Next Facebook group a big update about the machine development, including detailed specifications, capabilities and more. Below, the full announcement written by Victor: “Big update to bring the many things that have changed on the Next since the original announcement. We’ve reviewed here all the features that…
The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…
If you are not following the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook group you will love to know that the ZX Spectrum Next development is reaching important milestones. The developers have received another prototype of the machine which shows a PCB that will be probably very close to the one offered as the final product. It features several interfaces that will make any…
The FloppyDays podcast is already well-known to dig deep into the history of many computers from the late 70s and early 80s. Episodes from the past already covered the TRS-80, the TI-88, HP-85 and many others. FloppyDays always bring the experts in the subject to participate as co-hosts or to give interviews, which enriches the content making the podcast a must…
This article, write by Matt Gallagher, tell us his work in bringing to the latest MacOS (Sierra) code he wrote back in the late 90’s for the OS 8. Despite the practical objective of the article, which is very interesting by itself, Matt enriches the article with a very interesting summary of some of the tools used to build Mac applications for…
Reset64 is already part the reading habits of any C64 enthusiasts out there due to its content and production quality. We are happy to see a new issue coming out now, freely available in PDF format. Issue 9.5 is a Holiday Special featuring a 2017 wish list and the usual articles, news, and reviews. Here is the complete content this…
One of my favorite past times if the browse computer magazines from the 80’s and early 90’s not only looking not only at the articles but also at the adverts just to see what was being offered at the time, and at the end, having a glimpse of the computer history. I was happy to see that Retrocomputaria, a Brazilian retro computer site,…
