Category: Other News

Running with Rifles, the real modern Cannon Fodder sequel?

[youtube e1xpv-9AwPs nolink] “Keep your head down SOLDIER – you’ll need it!”Pick up your rifle and join the Greenbelts, Graycollars or Brownpants in their mission to send the enemy home in a box! RWR is an open world, top-down, tactical shooter for single player and multiplayer online, that puts you right in the middle of chaos in towns, trenches and…

Uncle Art: Elite II Orchestral & Retrogaming Music Remakes

Dave Lowe remakes some of his most famous Amiga, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum game music & records Elite Frontier themes with real orchestra. Uncle Art: Elite II Orchestral & Retrogaming Music Remakes is a new Kickstarter project started by Holly Jazz Lowe. The ProjectIn the 80s and 90s, my dad Dave Lowe who also went under the name ‘Uncle…

C65 – FPGA

Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on an FPGA version of the Commodore 65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. In the last month he has been working on the problems with the use of DDR memory. Website: http://c65gs.blogspot.com.au

Potrace – AmigaOS 4

Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap and the output is an PostScript file. Changes in this version are: Improved the processing of very large bitmaps. Made a few general improvements and removed small errors. The program is available for Amiga OS4, Linux and…

Hackaday Retro Edition: Remaking the PDP 8/I with a Raspberry PI

The PiDP-8 is a project to replicate the hardware of the 8/I in a modern format. Instead of hundreds of Flip Chips, this PDP-8 is powered by a Raspberry Pi running the SIMH emulator. The 40-pin GPIO connector on the Pi is broken out to 92 LEDs and 26 toggle switches on a large PCB. The creator of the project…

Seven Dragon Saga by Tactical Simulations Interactive (TSI)

Miss your old school games? Do titles like Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, and Wizards Crown bring back great memories? Well, SSI vets have formed TSI and have a Kickstarter for Seven Dragon Saga. So far $98,039 has been pledged of the $450,000 goal with 24 days to go, so what you waiting for? Click the link…

Scene World – Video interview with Yash Terakura

Yash Terakura is credited as being ‘The Creator’ of the Commodore 64 and VIC-20.The Commodore 64 is considered the best selling computer of all-time selling over 40 million units and possessing 40% of the global personal computer market! Over on Scene World Website you can watch a full video interview with Yash Terakura, Yash Terakura is a Japanese engineer who was…

ADTWin v1.2

With ADTWin you can write ADF files from PC to a real diskette. You will need a PC with a parallel port and Windows XP. You can connect a 3.5″ floppy drive to the parallel port with a special cable. Changes in this version: Support for the parallel port via PCI cards. Deactivation of Windows “warm polling” system. Drag &…

Tetris – 6502 Assembler

Wiebo de Wit is writing a blog on how to program a Tetris game in 6502 assembler. He made a Tetris clone in 1992 and now he explains how the game is made. For the development he uses KickAssembler, Sublime Tekst 3.0 and the VICE emulator. Website: http://devdef.blogspot.nl

Back in Time – A Back to the Future Documentary

Cast, crew, and fans explore the classic time-travel trilogy’s resonance throughout our culture 30 years after Marty went Back in Time. Back in time is the ultimate documentary related to the Back to the Future trilogy. It’s a film that digs deep into what these movies have meant to our culture. It’s not a simple “making of” documentary, but rather…