Category: Computers

Creating TAP files from AGD using Spectaculator

I thought I would create a quick video on how to generate TAP files from AGD as a few people have asked. Play at full screen so you can see the subtitles.

Basic 10Liners 2017 Results – You won’t believe what can be done in only 10 lines!

The 2017 10Liners contest is over. With 64 entries, this year contest is a staggering success. There are games for Atari, Commodore, MSX, Apple II and Amstrad and the quality of them is really impressive, considering how restrictive is a BASIC program in only 10 lines! But creativity wins! Here is the first 3 on each category: PUR-80 – Maximum of…

Victor Trucco answers questions about the ZX Spectrum Next

As the Kickstarter campaign goes, some backers and potential ones have raised a few technical questions about the ZX Spectrum Next, mostly related to the Wi-Fi, Realtime clock, and the Raspberry PI Zero. To avoid misunderstandings and help people deciding what model to get, Victor Trucco came out on Facebook to answer the most pressing questions. Will old software work…

Scene World #27 is Released!

The new scene world#27 is here, with a lot to offer! A chapter full of meeting-, party- and even concert reports! Let’s Make a Game Tutorial Part 3 with exclusive game on Disk Side 3, interviews with Jon Hare who works on a new soccer game with VR support, Forrest S. Mozer who invented speech synthesis and lend his voice…

ZX Spectrum Next “stretch goals” announced

It is typical for any Kickstarter project the existence of stretch goals. The idea is to either improve the product or give extra perks if the funding money passes the target goal for a good margin and reaches other targets values. When launched, we noticed that the ZX Spectrum Next didn’t have any stretch goal defined, which is not really uncommon,…

Nox Archaist, New Role Playing Game in Development for A2 Hardware, Mac and PC by 6502 Workshop

Nox Archaist is a new role playing game in development by 6502 Workshop exclusively for the Apple II platform and emulators, with both floppy and hard disk support. Check out the latest mini story using the Nox Archaist engine to demo the newest features in the game: The Nox Archaist story line is still under development. Any names or characters used…

ZX Spectrum Next £250,000 target reached in only 34 hours

I was expecting that the Next would be a hot topic over Kickstarter and it would be funded, but I didn’t expect that to happen so quick. The project is fully funded already, which means they will get the money from all backers via Kickstarter. Since there are still 28 days to go, there are plenty of time to go way…

JaffyDOS v1.0, C64 Kernal for SD2IEC

JaffyDOS is a custom kernal for the C64/SX64 with enhancements for SD2IEC. Filebrowser and Kernal modifications by: jani@worldofjani.com What is the biggest difference to other SD2IEC kernals we here you ask? It has the fast I/O routines of jiffy intact, filebrowser, filecopier, md64/71/81, customizable f-keys and colours! Features: * Jiffydos protocol and DOS wedge. * Customizable colour scheme. * Customizable…

A512, 512k Trapdoor Memory Expansions Coming for the A500 from Individual Computers

Individual Computers are releasing the A512, a 512kByte trapdoor memory expansion for the A500 computer. This is not just another copy of a product that was available from lots of second-source manufacturers during the late 1980s and 1990s, but it is looking at the needs of all A500 owners today: 512k RAM Pass-through port for use in Amiga 500+ Space for…

WinUAE 3.4.1 beta 7 Amiga Emulator Released

Toni is back again with another Beta version of WinUAE. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes…