Category: Hardware
With the Christmas season quickly approaching I thought I would use the deals on hardware components to try to upgrade my current desktop. Upon shifting through the various hardware websites advertising dozens of various CPU’s, GPU’s, and enough cases to make my head spin, I soon began to miss the days before 6700Ks and 1070 SLI, and reminisce about a…
The Prisma Megamix is a music card for the Amiga computer, and is now available to purchase over at Amigakit. Specifications Clockport and Zorro II interfaces (if operated in Zorro II slot, clockport can be used for compatible add-on cards) Compatible with Amiga A1200 T, A2000, A3000, A4000, A4000T. Based on VS1063 chip Playback of wide range…
The Atlantic website has published an article where the author, Benj Edwards goes back down the memory lane, talking about his time as a kid accessing the BBSes via a dial-up modem and how liberating that was, before the Internet was really a thing. The article has a good mix of personal experiences and straightforward history facts and I believe everyone…
The fine folks over at the Open Apple podcast have just posted episode #64. This episode features a special interview (courtesy of Ken Gagne and Juiced.GS) with John Brooks about his recently-released, completely unexpected, and totally awesome ProDOS 2.4.1. Also, Mike trims down his A2 collection, and classic computing magazines get remembered. Link: open-apple.net Subscribe: iTunes Link: ProDOS 2.4
Kotaku UK has published a short article showing some pictures of one of Nintendo’s storage rooms, featuring mint Famicom and other jewels that a lot of collectors would give a kidney to have! The article shows other pictures that will make you wish to have the key of that locker! Link: Kotaku
Once Upon a Byte and 8bitchip present you the story of Amiga Vampire FPGA accelerators, as told by Igor Majstorovic. Majsta visited this year’s BalCCon (Balkan Computer Congress) and in an informal talk at Once Upon a Byte’s Retro Computer Assembly revealed all of the details that he and the Apollo team had to go through to get a working…
Colin Poole from Let’s Talk Retro, sent us an email to let us know that the Pocket Chip Portable Computer is capable of running Commodore 64 games using Vice Emulator! Not only that he made an interesting video showing how to setup the emulator and how to run some games. Colin chose some great classics including Kickstart II, Manic Miner…
exSID USB is a MOS Technology SID hardware playback device that connects to modern computers via USB. The goal of this project is to enable accurate, true to the original hardware playback of SID music (such as what can be found in the High Voltage SID Collection) in a convenient, 21st-century compatible way: without a working C64. Website: http://hacks.slashdirt.org
VIC-20cr Reloaded is a new project by Steve J. Gray to create a new VIC-20cr (Cost Reduced) Motherboard, which could become a starting point for modified VIC motherboards. For example, using a single 32K ram chip to make a VIC-32. Combining multiple ROMS into a single ROM to save board space, or even adding extra colour RAM to expand it’s graphics capability. How about a SID…
Luigi Di Fraia has announced the soon to be available C2NEmu. This device connects to a Commodore 64/VIC 20 tape port and to a PC through a USB cable. There are two modes 2 modes of operation: 1. playback a TAP file (version 0, 1, or 2) from a PC into a C64/VIC20 2. record the write signal from a C64/VIC20 to a DMP…
