Category: Computers
Epy made a new program for the Commodore Plus/4. The Directory Browser V1.0 is based on the code from his SID player, and can be used to browse through all of your diskettes. You can give feed back on this program on the Plus/4 World forum. Download: directory_browser_v1_0.prgWebsite: http://plus4world.powweb.com
It is happening this month a challenge to write a 4K program for the original TRS-80 CoCo released in 1980. The entries are being published on the website Sub-Etha Software, and each one must be able to run on the original 1980 4K Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer using only cassette recorder for storage. To check all the contestants, follow…
[youtube V6-_48Aqso0 nolink] This amazing demo was created for the ZX81 by ex-Ocean Software coder Jim Bagley (Cabal, Midnight Resistance, Hudson Hawk) and shown exclusively at the Retro Computer Museum Valentine’s Event 2015 at Snibston Discovery Centre in Leicester. It is just streaming video from CF card using the ZXpand on a ZX81, but he is aiming to make it…
Bad news for the Amiga OS users. According to the Belgian bankruptcy register faillissementsdossier.be, Hyperion has been declared bankrupt by a court in Brussels on January 27, 2015. There is no further information available about the proceedings at this point. Hyperion was established in 1999 to port commercial games to smaller systems like AmigaOS and Linux. In 2001, the company…
[youtube YKjgfeNIbcM nolink] There is a new Kickstarter campaign aiming to bring you the chance to watch a Commodore 64 concert, live in Brighton. Besides the great attractions, before the show C64 personalities will be stationed at nominated pubs in the area (within walking distance) and a map sent by PDF to all attendees, thus leading to a C64 themed…
[youtube 5zVYfisnDys nolink] As we reported few hours ago, Castlevania – Spectral Interlude was finally released on this “cursed” Friday 13th, including its own website! As described on the game website “Castlevania: Spectral Interlude is an action-adventure platform game with elements of RPG. It merges well known elements of classic games with some new ideas. It tells a new story…
Castlevania and Friday 13th!?!?!? Just be careful to not cross path with a black cat, or you are doomed! SanNchez, who’s behind the development, announced last Friday via World of Spectrum forum that the final version of the Castlevania port is going to be released today. If you want to join the army of people breaking their F5 key, follow…
Javi Lavandeira has been posting an amazing series of articles entitle “Relearning MSX”, where he explains how to get up and running with MSX, a C programming environment and much more. The purpose of this new article and the ones to follow is to allow users who already have some experience programming in C to dive deeper into software development…
[youtube VTdjdy5G5ow nolink] The final edition of the demoparty Payback has happened from January, 30th to Feb 1st in Finland. MSX Resource Centre is the first outlet to report their own favourite machine entries and the results. MRC user NYYRIKKI has entered the Old Skool 8bit section of the party with his demo named To The Future, and Dromedaar Vision…
A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. SpecBAS is am open-source remake of Sinclair BASIC, but it’s faster, far more powerful and more colourful than Sinclair BASIC has ever been! SpecBAS incorporates all the features of Sinclair BASIC, but with modern additions, like procedures, associative arrays, etc. It is currently available for Windows, Linux, Pandora and Raspberry PI….
