Category: Hardware

New issue of Apple II printed magazine JuicedGS is out

The subscribers of the only printed magazine about Apple II should be receiving a new issue this week. This issue features coverage of WOzFest ///, where the 4play and 4soniq cards were revealed alongside an updated version of KABOOM!; reviews of the 1983 game Dino Eggs and its 2016 sequel, Dino Eggs: Rebirth; a review of Tulip House’s VGA Adapter for…

Video-game pioneer workspace gets installation at New York museum

The Strong Museum of Play em Rochester, Nova York has now among its collection, the workspace of Ralph Baer, the video-game pioneer who created the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Raph passed away in 2014, and the Strong Museum decided to pay an homage to him, creating an installation that displays Ralph’s workspace. “The Strong is pleased to display the workspace from Ralph’s…

Wifi hardware expansion for the Amstrad CPC

M4 Board is a WiFi adapter for the Amstrad CPC that allows you to connect the CPC to a PC to access files and also directly to the Internet. With the M4 your CPC will be able to: Emulate Romboard, currently up to 16 ROMS, can be uploaded/removed via Web Interface. Download files from internet via WiFi. Mass storage to…

Use a SEGA Genesis Joypad with your TRS-80 CoCo3

John W. Linville, from the CoCo Crew podcast, has published an article showing his design of an adapter that allows you to use SEGA Genesis (or Megadrive) with the CoCo3. Also, he mention that a dual-joypad version of this adapter was produced and built by his podcasting partner Neil Blanchard. You can watch a quick demo in the video below…

MSX Hardware accessories project sources released

If you are into electronics and have an MSX computer asking for new accessories, now you can build many of the hardware projects designed by the Russian Bear Service Crew. The RBSC has released the sources for several of their MSX hardware projects. This includes the schematics, board design files, Gerber files for board manufacturing, parts lists, BIOS images and…

Former Commodore UK employee David Pleasance video Interviewed for Scene World Magazine

Due to massive delays and the new issue of Scene World Magazine being out very soon, we couldn’t pack the transcription in , but decided to release our interview with former Commodore UK employee David John Pleasance nevertheless! David Pleasance is a former employee of Commodore UK who had too many titles and his career at Commodore to list them…

Upcoming Eight-bit Magazine promises more pages for your buck

John Kavanagh has announced to his Kickstarter campaign backers that the issue 1 of the Eight-bit Magazine is in full production and on contrary to what he has published, it won’t have 48 pages, but 60! John also tells that the issue 2 work has started, and he is looking for authors to help make the magazine relevant. I am particularly…

The dawn of the CoCo clones in Brazil

(Article by Daniel Campos, translated by Paulo Garcia) I believe this article doesn’t bring a lot of new information for those who follow my articles because I’d been promising an article talking about the computer that originates the history of the CoCo clones in Brazil for almost a year. The history The CD-6809 was the first CoCo clone produced in Brazil…

Encrypted Juiced.GS Magazine (April's Fool Joke)

  Since we have very angry visitors (I am looking at you Commodore community), we don’t do any prank or fake article for April 1st in respect to them. That don’t prevent us from posting something about someone else’s jokes containing a note stating that it is an April fool’s joke, of course. This one came from Apple II Juiced.GS…

The ultimate plug&play dual SID solution for your Commodore 64 and 128!

‘Project SIDFX’ is a new hardware expansion for any C64, SX-64, and C128 allowing them to use 1 or 2 SIDs chips, even of different models! Currently accepting pre-orders, the new board looks very powerful allowing the user to switch between SID chips while playing the tune.For now, this can be achieved via a hardware switch, but the board is prepared…