Category: Hardware
Mist is an FPGA Amiga hardware emulator made by Lotharek. It is probably the middle ground between software emulation and the actual Amiga. Many of us, retro computer enthusiasts will probably frawn and say “it is not like the real machine” but it certainly offers great advantages, like the possibility to emulate the Atari ST as well. To help you understand how…
The Computer History Museum blog has a lengthy article by Hansen Hsu entitled “The Neverending Quest for ‘Firsts’” in which he discusses what it really means to be the “first” computer. “What ‘first’ means depends on precise definitions of fuzzy concepts.”– Computer History Museum Board Chair Len Shustek It’s a great article that also delves into history’s habit of failing…
If you are one of the 70+ lucky ones that are going to the 2016 edition of the long-lasting Apple II enthusiasts gathering Kansasfest, you will be happy to know that several vendors will be giving extra discounts to their products. Here is the official announcement: “KansasFest is a great opportunity to meet some of the vendors who support our community. …
Joe Decuir started to work for Atari in 1975 and was one of the engineers responsible for designing the iconic Atari 2600 and the 8-bit computers 400/800. The historian-podcaster-writer-archivist Kevin Savetz scanned Joe’s engineering notebooks from the time he worked at Atari and now the precious document is available at Internet Archive. With handwritten notes and schematics, the content of the…
A1200.NET is already the sweetheart of all Amiga 1200 owners, with its recently successful kickstart campaign for the new A1200 casing. If you are one of the happy backers you might be thinking “my A1200 will have a brand new shiny case, but these old keycaps are awful…” Well, accordingly to Phillipe Lang, you will be able to get brand…
Radio Shack has sold the TRS-80 Model I expansion in order to give the computer extended memory and floppy drives. Matthew Reed from TRS-80.org has published an article showing us that Radio Shack’s was not the only option to expand the Model I. You can learn more about it reading this interesting article. Link: TRS-80.org
If you own an NTSC C64, you know already that the games released in Europe were designed to work on the old continent TV standard, PAL which would prevent the game to run in the machines produced in North America. If you are brave enough and really willing to enjoy the European games, you can convert your machine to PAL….
If you are using Windows, OSX or any Linux graphical interface you are using the product of a groundbreaking project from the early 70’s, the Xerox Alto. The Alto was the first computer designed around a graphical user interface and introduced Ethernet and the laser printer[1] to the world. This article published on Ken Shirriff’s blog talks about the Alto and its impact…
Dan Wood from kookytech.net has published a video reviewing the Vampire 2 for the Amiga 600. The Vampire 2 is an incredibly fast FPGA accelerator for the Commodore Amiga 600, pushing it to speeds and power far beyond what was previously possible. But how good is it, and what can it do? You will find out watching the vldeo below: [youtube…
Bill Pierce announced on the CoCo maillist that he has updated the VCC Starter Kits with newer versions of the emulator and Drivewire.The “VCC Starter Kits” are a single install of VCC (CoCo3 emulator), HDBDOS, NitrOS9, and DriveWire4, completely set up and ready to run. The kit is perfect for those who want a quick start with the VCC emulator…
