Category: Computers
Lebanon, NH – Thomas Eugene Kurtz, whose pioneering work in computer science made programming accessible to the masses through the development of the BASIC programming language, died on November 12, 2024, in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He was 96 years old. Along side the venerable John Kemeney, Kurtz worked tirelessly at Dartmouth College to bring programming to the masses, even working…
The Acorn Archimedes is, broadly speaking, a British 32-bit computer that competed with the Amiga and Atari ST. History. In 1987, Acorn Computers Ltd. already had experience in the home computing field, thanks to the success of its 8-bit computer, the BBC Micro, during the early 1980s. This little-known machine was really popular in the UK, almost as popular as…
by DrTerrorz The clever will survive Fort Django, the cleverest will survive with their bags full of gold! Move around with joystick in port 2. Up=Jump, Down=Crouch, Fire=Shoot. Kill the bad guys and pick up the bags, find the exit. If you collect the bags faster you get more bonus. If you escape the fort with more than 10000$ you…
by Polygeddon CyberCyte This is an absolutely fascinating s-e-u for PC Quiver Games Town One Game Jam – Team 10 XenoDev Fun weekend game jam with awesome folks! In-person in Vancouver BC! Team XenoDev: Justin, Reza, Jingyu, Alex, Doug, Peter, andNoah Download, here Source:cybercyte
The new Crucible v2.0 beta app for newer MacOS has been released and is available to download for free from the Infinity Products store page. Additional features include: -ROM file creation can be done in 4 splits, 2 splits and single files. -In split mode, you can choose between 4 splits and 2 splits. This is for dividing into Lo…
In a Twitter (X) announcement this week, Corey Cohen, curator of the current Apple-1 Registry announced the addition of another Apple-1 Computer. According to the posting by @Apple1Registry : https://apple1registry.com/en/105.html#Apple1 The Apple-1 Registry was originally created by Mike Willegal as a way of keeping track of where the original Apple-1 computers were or of their existence. At the time…
A Gruescript adventure combining Lovecraft with The Famous Five by cpdesign Scott Macarthur – a health and safety inspector from Cumbria – has been sent to Kirrin Village to oversee some construction work on Kirrin Island. Scott’s Aunt Fanny has kindly invited him and his friends Dave and Jon to stay at her cottage near the sea. His cousin Mike,…
by Bubu Marcianito Bubu is a true specialist in fantastic arcade conversions for the ZX Spectrum. Titles like Tetris or Botanic are part of the retina of the followers of the system. Now we have Donkey Kong, a new conversion much loved and highly regarded, and also from Nintendo. On Spectrum, we had the port made by Ocean, which produced a disparity…
by rexracer Tetris for Commodore 64 (C64) in Kick Assembler This project is a clone of the classic Tetris game, developed for the Commodore 64 (C64) using Kick Assembler. The aim was to recreate the core mechanics of Tetris, including piece movement, rotation, line clearing, and scoring, while working within the constraints of the C64’s hardware. Download, here Source:https://rexracer.itch.io/c64-tetris
The author of Zephyr, Pleins Gaz and other titles that have been recently re-issues, Richard Sorbeka, has announced that he is releasing a number of his games on his personal website.According to his recent posting in the Apple II Enthusiasts group, Richard says:As a former developer and an Apple enthusiast, I’d like to share one of my creations for the…
