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Markus Gritsch has developed a simple USB joystick adapter. With this adapter you can use a digital joystick with your favorite emulator. Markus used a PIC micro controller and a few components on a experimental circuit board. He tested his adapter with the VICE emulator on his laptop and the famous Competition Pro joystick. The schematic and the firmware are…

“Yape is the best emulator of Commodore microcomputer family running on Windows and Unix. The emulator faithfully imitates the C-264 (know also as Commodore Plus/4) model. It has been written by Attila Grósz, see http://yape.plus4.net for details. I’ve successfully modified, and port the source code of the version v0.32.4 and it’s now working fine on PSP !” Website: http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/114-guid.html

Starring the Computer is a website dedicated to the use of computers in film and television. Each appearance is catalogued and rated on its importance (ie. how important it is to the plot), realism (how close its appearance and capabilities are to the real thing) and visibility (how good a look does one get of it). Fictional computers don’t count…