Category: Announcement
For those of you who were as shocked as this author about the shuttering of the Vintage is the New OId website, you will be happy to know that there are a number of people who came together to keep the site alive into at least the immediate future. We must thank those who had a hand in bringing this…
Author: Supercruiser Date: June 14th, 2023 Category: Non-technical So to put things into context and the memories all tend to get a little blurred the further things go on, but this is how I recollect the below. I come from a small town in the regional area of South Australia, and my first dial up experience was with a…
Are you a retro computing and gaming enthusiast? Are you always amazed how some people can create AAA games for old platforms while others can understand electronics and put modern hardware accessories on the market, giving new life to our old machines? Do you feel left out when you see game programming, graphics, demos, or hardware contests happening all the…
retro fun for all Amiga-fans – perfect for a fun game in between, for 2 to 4 players beautiful illustrations of 32 Amiga models made exclusively for this card game bilingual: English and German Amiga Duel is the new card game that lets all Amiga fans, retro collectors and game enthusiasts fun-test their Amiga knowledge! The game can…
In our new episode we are happy to talk to Julia Minamata. She is the developer of ‘The Crimson Diamond’ – a text parser EGA mystery adventure game to be released soon on Steam! Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond. Sounds like a…
Recently I learned about an exciting project that started a couple of years ago: ugBasic. ugBasic is a cross compiler of BASIC dialect specialized in programs that are very efficient by design on various 8-bit platforms built on top of 6502, Z80 and 6809. This is a tall order, but ugBasic seems to pull it off very well. ugBasic comprises…
A message from David Pleasance for all orders who ordered his german book of “Commodore the inside story”: English translation (thanks to amiga-news.de) Due to e-mail losses, he asks for the current delivery address for sending the printed version to amiga@lookbehindyou.de with the subject: “INSIDE STORY GERMAN VERSION”. Subscribers of the e-book version, on the other hand, should send their current e-mail…
Previously, I shared my discovery that the new ChatGPT artificial intelligence program had some understanding of programming languages such as C, BASIC and even COBOL. In the days since that discovery, I have continued to experiment with this technology and have found it to be quite useful. It has already helped me with my day job. It was able to…
It’s never too late to do cool stuff in the retro computing world. This time around, the Atari 8-bit computers get a new port of the GEOS, a graphic interface environment created for the Commodore (64, 128, and Plus/4) and Apple II by Berkeley Softworks. GEOS was interesting at the time because it delivered a powerful environment while having extremely…
I got my first computer when I was 13 years old, and it was a JR Sysdata, a TRS-80 Model I clone. I loved that machine and learned a lot from it, but as soon I saw the CP-400 advertisements with its silver fancy design and all those colors, I started the campaign to upgrade to one as soon as…
