Category: Computers
We have some big news for the Apple II fans: A2Central.com is back! Launched in June 2000, this Apple II site provided our community with news, announcements, and updates until February 2022. Now, after a one-year hiatus, its two decades of archives are available again — along with fresh content and a modern redesign, all under new management. If you…
Join us on this episode as we sit down with legendary video game composer and musician Frank Klepacki. With over 30 years of experience in the industry, Frank has created iconic soundtracks for some of the biggest games of all time, including Command + Conquer, Dune, and Star Wars: Empire at War. Not only is he a master of electronic…
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…
Game announcements are not my main focus here in Vintage is the New Old anymore – it is very hard to keep up and there are plenty of other ways to be up to speed with what is new in the retro gaming world, like, for example, Saberman’s YouTube channel, which does a fantastic job showing footage of most (if…
Scene World was prominently featured in the 04/2023 issue of the German design magazine PAGE. featuring logos from Retromantis, Black and JSL made for Scene World Magazine! :) (The text translates as “pixelated till today, the diskmag “Scene World” for C64 fans and coders can be downloaded for fitting hardware at https://sceneworld.org”)
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…
The 19th edition of MSXDev has started. The competition that began in 2003 has brought to life many high-quality games for the MSX. The 2023 edition will follow the previous year’s “freestyle” approach, where the game can be created for any MSX machine that was ever sold. If you think you will try to create something this year, you have…
NOTE: If what I describe in this article applies to other implementations of BASICs that use reserved string space, please leave a comment and let me know. I was in junior high school when I started learning to program BASIC. Initially, this was done by reading a book a classmate had and then writing programs out on paper. We’d then…
During the last MSX users’ meeting in Barcelona, Konamiman has announced a new project that he has been working on for a while: Nestor, a new Z80 cross-assembler. The main objective was to be able to build Nextor without having to use CP/M emulation to run MACRO-80, but since Nestor is a general-purpose Z80 assembler, if can be use for…
The most famous Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer (“CoCo”) easter egg has to be the hidden photo of the CoCo 3 programmers that shows up if you hold down CTRL-ALT while turning the machine on. (Alternatively, you can hold down CTRL-ALT and hit the reset button on the back of the machine to also display it.) I had the pleasure of…
