Category: Computers
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…
The Brazilian magazine Clube MSX is a common subject here on ViTNO since we love supporting their efforts to create one of the best magazines out there. One of the common messages we often receive after publishing the news is, “it looks great but too bad I don’t speak (or read) Portuguese.” Well, we are pleased to learn that the…
N10, a small indie developer team has released today a new game for the ZX Spectrum to celebrate their love and passion for Speccy and Duck Tales. In Duck Tales: Webby To The Rescue, Uncle Scrooge with his nephews and Webby set off for the Carpathian country, where there is a long-abandoned old castle called Fort Cockroach. Legend says…
By now I hope you have all have heard of the Amiga 68000 Assembly Course, if not please read and see how you can get it. First a little story and how it all started by coincidence. I had bought the book of Fabio Ciucci in Italian called “The Complete Course in Programming Assembly on two Disks”. I read this…
A long awaited Japanese-style RPG was released for the Commodore 64 on 26 October 2021: Briley Witch Chronicles, by Sarah Jane Avory. It’s a huge game, taking up more than 600 KB. To play it on a C64 you’ll need a 1 MB EasyFlash cartridge. Of course you can run it on Vice, and the Vice-based The C64 Mini and…
