Category: Announcement
The premiere issue of Vintage is the New Old Magazine is now available to download on the website. This magazine is an easy to read run-down of articles from the previous month, along with some fun Retro advertising from back in the day. Our little Zine is completely free, scroll down a bit and look to the right of the…
In this episode we are very glad to welcome Jeff Schaap, Producer and Director of – I Adore My 64 – a documentary film of the usership of the Commodore 64 in the US. We talk about his motivation and goal of this documentary, and don’t forget to pledge its crowdfunding campaign to make sure it is to be a…
PunyInform is a library for the Inform 6 programming language, to make it easy to create simple or advanced text adventures which will work well on 8-bit computers like the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Spectrum +3 etc. PunyInform was first released on July 5, 2020. The rootsThe Inform programming language, compiler and standard library were developed by Graham…
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…
