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The goal of the game is to complete faces in the surrounding windows. Points are awarded based on how complete the face is assembled. The more complete the face is, the more points you score. Try and clear the whole board for an extra life and 500 points. Download: quartet.lhaiPhone: https://itunes.apple.comWebsite: http://www.amiboing.de
In his blog The Clean Code Blog, Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) has shown us today his work developing a PDP-8 emulator for the iPad. The emulator is written in Lua, using the Codea framework, which is very convenient due to its graphics capabilities, and fast language. The UI loosely mimics the PDP-8 front panel in terms of layout, but…
[youtube up9tZVzffEo nolink] The Raspberry Pi SID player is a device which allows you to play music from the Commodore 64 computer using original audio hardware (SID) and the Raspberry Pi. You can play classic game music or homebrew Commodore 64 music. Website: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu
[youtube KTWd_eyAmgQ nolink] It came from the Desert is a 1989 action-adventure game by Cinemaware. It was originally released for the Amiga, but later ported to MS-DOS, as well as released in distinctly different forms to consoles. The two console versions, for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (unreleased) and TurboGrafx-16, are very different from the versions released for computer platforms, in…
[youtube Xo8RT8Wpv6w nolink] 6X Faster! Everyone loves a sequel! Broadcom BCM2836 Arm7 Quad Core Processor powered Single Board Computer running at 900MHz 1GB RAM 40pin extended GPIO 4 x USB 2 ports 4 pole Stereo output and Composite video port Full size HDMI CSI camera port for connecting the Raspberry Pi camera DSI display port for connecting the Raspberry Pi…
[youtube FIZ_gDOrzGk nolink] Featuring excellent pixel art and some self-deprecating humor from the very talented Paul Robertson. Co-created with fellow artist Ivan Dixon and featuring Jeremy Dower’s chiptune remix of the Simpsons theme tune, Robertson’s video (via Polygon) is a one-minute-forty-second love letter packed with references to the show and gaming alike. The animation itself is really cool and well-directed,…
Scott Lawrence made a portable KIM computer. For this KIM-1 he used an old plastic case he picked-up on a hamfest and a display from a surplus store. The computer inside is a Arduino Uno R3 micro board and a Seeed Studio protoshield. You can follow the whole process on his blog.
A new episode of the Personal Computing podcast is available. In this episode: Retrochallenge!, Altair 8800b, Wade Ripkowski, Commodore brochures, The Commodore bankruptcy, The Commodore PET 2001, Commodore PET 4032 and the Commodore PET Disk Drive 4040. Website: http://www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com
On the web page Flashtro.com you can see many cracker intro’s with your browser. The original intros from the Amiga, Atari-ST, Dreamcast, PC, Playstation etc. are converted to Flash. The most recent flashtro’s are: Scoopex – Eliminator, Bamiga Sector One – Arkanoid, Skid Row – Xmas, Lightforce – Operation Wolf, Megaforce – Street Fighter, The Accumulators & The Softkiller Crew…
Make: Magazine has published in its last printed issue (3D Printers) and article about the Altair 8800, written by Forrest M. Mims III, one of the founders of MITS – Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, creator of the Altair. Now the article is available online at Make website (link at the bottom) where you can read about the company that…
