Author: Paulo

Site co-founder, Slack admin, web admin and fan of tinkering with BASIC and assembly language for old machines.

New juice for your TI-99/4A – New Extended Basic v2.7 Suite Cartridge

A new cartridge has been produced by a group of TI’ers. It’s been in limited production, but more are promised to be coming soon. The cartridge replaces TI Extended Basic, and the TI Editor Assembler. It also includes a list of utilities as well as games. Follow the links below for more information. Source: www.99er.net FAQ: TI-99/4a Stuff Announcement: Atariage

Introduction to Assembly Programming on the Apple IIgs – Lesson 0 Follow-up

[youtube w2P6UJy17ro nolink] Dagen Brock is back with a follow up video of his Lesson 0 one published few weeks ago. This time, he revisits some concepts he talked on his first video and answers questions that the viewers sent. Source: A2Central Video Link: YouTube

Do you have $500,000 to spare? Buy an Apple 1!

Bonhams Auction house will hold on October 22nd the History of Science auction, and the most iconic lot to be offered will be an working Apple-1 Computer. It is expected that it will go for something in between $300,000 and $500,000. Back in 2013, an Apple-1 was sold for $387,750 at a Christie’s online-only auction. Another one was sold three…

Spectaculator 6.0 for iOS Released

Spectaculator is a complete ZX Spectrum for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad! Contains Sinclair BASIC and many great games from the 1980s These are the changes for the version 6.0: Refreshed for iOS 7. Added more licensed games: Bear Bovver Doomdark’s Revenge Everyone’s a Wally KWAH! Redhawk Skool Daze Website: Spectaculator Download Link: iTunes

New Podcast – The History of Personal Computing

This is a new podcast that was released today by Jeff Salzman and David Greelish, and on its debut episode talks about the SCELBI computer system, Mark-8 and ECHO IV. The podcast is planned to be released every other weekly, telling the history and development of the single most important technological advancement of the last forty years, the personal computer!…

VITNO now on Reddit!

We are starting a shared subreddit for Vintage is The New Old and Commodore is Awesome. We found that having an open forum like Reddit for both sites would be more attractive for all our visitors than a traditional forum. On VITNO and CIA Reddit you can post pictures of your retro setup, share videos and links about whatever you…

Open Apple #38 (August 2014) : The Lawless Legends Team

I just finished listening to the latest Open Apple podcast, and it is really great. This episode brings a new co-host: Quinn Dunki, and an amazing interview with the team behind The Lawless Legends project, a fantasy role playing game set in the wild west for the Apple II. It was great to see how passionate are those guys with the…

New Atari ST Magazine is out!

[youtube 0CMAgvkQ7Z4 nolink] The already well-known Atari Gamer Magazine just got a new sister covering the Atari ST line of computers, the Atari ST Gamer. The new magazine promises to bring news, reviews and articles about the Atari ST, and the debut edition is full of good stuff, like an interview with Harry Lefnear, pixel artist for the Microdeal’s Time…

Earlier source code from 1962's Spacewar! shows up

Spacewar! is one of the earliest video-games made to run on a DEC PDP-1 back in 1962 and it is alleged to be the earliest with source-code available. Recently an even earlier version, dated from March 1962, has shown up and the transcripts of the listings are available at www.masswerk.at/spacewar/sources. If you feel like driving the  DeLorean at 88 mph, you can feel…

CocoaMSX v1.4.1 has been released

Have a Mac and feel you don’t have your MSX fix? Fear no more! It has been released a new version of CocoaMSX, the MSX emulator for Mac OSX 10.6 or newer. Based on BlueMSX, CocoaMSX offers: Built-in support for 3 virtual systems, automatic download and installation of over 200 MSX systems Built-in support for cartridge (ROM) files, optional support…