Category: Computers
This compo is really interesting. While most compos would not allow anything other than standard machines, ZX Enhanced takes the opposite approach. Only ZX Spectrum compatible machines that have some enhancement can participate. The compo rules state that “target platforms must be equipped with various extensions like graphic modes other than ‘6912’, RAM above 128kB, CPU clock frequency above 3.5MHz…
Onslaught has been around for 20 years already. With almost one thousand releases, the demo scene group is one of the most relevant around. To celebrate its 20 years, the group has released a new demo showing some amazing effects as well as paying homage to its members and friends. Vintage is the New Old has published the demo on our…
Update from 01/05: Hyperion Entertainement releases official statement. Generation Amiga has reported today a tweet from Hacker Fantastic saying that the Amiga OS source has been leaked, including both Kickstart and Workbench. Looking at the @hackerfantastic’s tweet, there is another user with the handle @TheWack0lian that offers a link to download the OS in a 130MB tar file which…
The third part of The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 game has been published on RetroGamesCollector website. This time, the author talks about Sprite Multiplexing, a technique that allows having more than 8 sprites on screen at a time. There is also a trailer showing the first two areas of the game. [youtube u20xV4Y38X4 nolink] Link: RetroGamesCollector
The Ultimate Amiga Talk – Amiga Hardware Design And Programming was presented at 2015 Chaos Communication Congress – Gated Communities (#32C3) in Hamburg. The hour-long video shows the speaker, Bernard R. Fischer going deep in Amiga 500 hardware description as well as programming information. It is a very technical video but a must-see for everyone interested on Amiga programming. [youtube 3Ho12VYv-iw nolink] For…
Our favorite Forth implementation, DurexForth, has released a new version 1.4.5. These are the changes: forth: / now uses floored signed division forth: bugfix for negative number parsing (2- was interpreted as -20) forth: made 2/ sign-extend negative numbers forth: added spaces source >in 2over 2swap m+ m* sm/rem fm/mod dabs dnegate s>d forth: changed word order of double-cell integers…
HVSC – High Voltage SID Collection is the ultimate SID collection, containing more than 47,000 SID tunes for you listening pleasure! Update #64 came out few days ago and you can download it right now. If you don’t have any previous version, you can choose the complete download instead the update as well. This update features (all approximates): 672 new…
“Important people who shaped the TI 99/4A World” blog on Atariage is talking about Scott Adams, the genius behind many Text adventure games was brought up in Miami Florida. In 1975 he wrote a computer game on a computer that his brother Richard built a year before, making him the first person on earth to write a computer game on a home…
YAPE is Plus/4 emulator. It’s being developed for 10+ years by now and it is available in Windows as well as multiplatform editions. It was just released a new version of the emulator running on Windows. It is a minor incremental update to 1.0.7 with the following changes: GUI fix SID fixes drive RPM fix autostart randomization fix For other…
I’ve never seen an Amstrad CPC face-to-face, but after reading about it and playing with emulators, I wish a had personal experience with this machine for its capabilities. Nonetheless, it is always good to see new games coming out for the platform. This time, we welcome ‘Adios a la Casta Episode 1’ by 4Mhz group. The game is still in…
