Category: Computers
Darren Melbourne returns to the podcast – 5 years after, this time with Retro Games’ CTO Chris Smith, they are talking about the upcoming A500 Mini. I this episode, they talk about the rocky way of getting this onto the road and what it means for the Amiga scene and the Amiga competitive gaming scene, as well. Interview starts at…
It has only been a week since Roger Taylor announced his project to reverse engineer the custom ASIC Radio Shack used in their Color Computer 3 and we have already learned a few interesting things. He sent two versions of the “GIME” chip off to be opened up and photographed under a microscope. These images revealed some messages etched in…
In our new episode we welcome Gunnar Vonn Boehn from the one and only Apollo Team. They are known for their stellar Vampire cards which are a must for every Amiga fan. Interview starts at 37:38 Minutes https://scene.world/vampire Or watch its video version:
Yandex Retro Games Battle is a game development contest, organized by the Yandex Museum that brought to life amazing games for the ZX Spectrum, like Marsmare: Alienation and White Jaguar. If released in the 80s, these games would have made the developers rich folks and the blockbusters of the time look not so incredible as our memory tells us! This…
When Radio Shack released their third and final version of the Color Computer, the Tandy Color Computer 3, it included a custom ASIC chip. This chip, called the GIME (Graphics Interrupt Memory Enhancement), replicated most features of the Motorola 6847 video display generator chip used in earlier models. It also added new features such as higher resolution graphics with more…
Well, this is getting a bit silly. Awhile back I posted an article discussing the alternate color set available in the 32 column text mode on a Radio Shack Color Computer. It was (mostly) available from Extended Color BASIC via the SCREEN command. This allowed having a screen that was either “nuclear green” or “whatever color the other is”. Then,…
In a previous article I discussed the Radio Shack Color Computer’s lesser known text mode screen colors. Below you can see the normal, normal reversed, alternate and alternate reversed color modes: During a recent discussion with CoCo FPGA programmer Roger Taylor, he mentioned something I was unaware of. He has spent years working on an FPGA recreation of the various…
As you all know, I am pretty much retired from Vintage is the New Old these days, however I couldn’t resist logging in today to share some interesting News. Found by pure accident while browsing the Bomb Jack DX thread on Forum64. It seems that an Atari XL/XE version of Bomb Jack was entered into the ABBUC 2021 Competition and…
Find out by watching our new video series called “Phaze101 Retro Quiz”. In each video you will be asked a short question about a retro game and shown three possible answers. You only have a few seconds to guess and then the correct answer is shown. Don’t worry if you get the answer wrong … it will be fun to…
In our new podcast episode we are happy to have Nicola and Anthony Caulfield: a filmmaking team from London, responsible for awesome documentaries like From Bedrooms To Billions and its sequel The Amiga Years. We are talking with them about their new project The Rubber-Keyed Wonder – a documentary about the ZX Spectrum which is currently on Kickstarter. Interview starts…
