Category: Computers
Fusion Retro Books are pleased to announce that are collaborating with Future Publishing to produce the Zzap!64 Annual 2019 and are ready to go to Kickstarter to help with the funding of costs associated with printing of the publication and compensation of content contributors. Zzap!64 was the magazine that every Commodore 64 owner went to for honest, frank reviews of…
Last weekend we finished the PCB layout and sent it out for manufacturing. The PCB is 83x58mm and fits into a standard Commodore cartridge case. All the ICs are through holes except the DRAM chips. If everything goes well I will receive the boards sometimes next week, just in time for a final blog entry. PLD Code As mentioned in…
If you are following along from the last update, you now have assembled the pieces you need to start programming in 650x Assembly language. Since my RetroChallenge is focused on the Commodore CBM II (“B Series”) machines, I am going to be showing how to set a development environment for that machine. But the same environment will work just as…
Robert Bernardo is a very known figure in the American Commdore scene, being the head of the “Fresno Commodore User Group”, we have been in touch with him since we started with Scene World 18 years ago – time to talk to him and hear about his side of our Commodore User World and Sphere! Enjoy listening to his experiences!…
According to the user willwinter on sub-Reddit /r/apple2, the maker of the CFFA3000 board for the Apple II sent out an email letting people know that they have added more units to the batch #5 and also they will allow previous buyers to acquire more than the previous 2 units limit. If you don’t know what is a CFFA3000 (where have you…
MSXDev organizers have just announced the second entry for the 2018 edition of the MSX Game Development Contest – BUDDHAGILLIE! BUDDHAGILLIE by GW’s-workshop is an action game where you play Buddha who uses his sword to slash the enemies throughout 6 realms: Hell, Hunger, Animals, Asuras, Humans, Gods and Nirvana. On each realm, besides fighting the enemies directly, you also have to…
Fans of the great racer, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, can look forward to a homage of the game with the upcoming Commodore 64 project, El Loco Challenge. Jammerc64 is in the process of coding El Loco Challenge as part of the Forum64 & Protovision Game Competition 2017. Posting his early work on Forum64.de, Jammerc64 stated “Game in general aims at recreating…
Talented game designer, Alf Yngve has built himself a reputation over nearly three decades for releasing quality vertical scrolling shooters for the Commodore 64. Yngve is generally considered as one of the leading innovators when it comes to getting the most out of the Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK), the game creation platform released back in 1987 that he uses…
Assembly language: the very name strikes fear into the hearts of retro-computing oriented nerds everywhere. “I used to program my (Atari|Commodore|TI99|Apple|ZX Spectrum) in BASIC, and I always meant to do something in Assembly, but… ” If that sounds familiar to me, then this is the blog for you! Or rather, this is about the 100th blog for you, because…
OPL4 Shockwave 2 is the successor of Technobytes original MSX sound cartridge (OPL4 Shockwave as you could imagine), bringing several improvements: Smaller footprint fitting in a smaller cartridge case; P2 stereo output; The OPL4 sound is mixed with the internal MSX sound, which allows you to listen OPL4 sound through the MSX sound output; Twice as much RAM – 2MB…
