Category: Other News

ZX-Live – Amiga

Dmitriy Zhivilov released a new version of the ZX-Spectrum 48/128k and Pentagon 128k emulator for the Amiga. Features: Emulation of all Z80 instructions, flags, registers and interrupts. Support for keyboard, Kempston joystick / mouse, border, sound, 1818VG93 and load & save in many formats. Website: http://aminet.net

MultiMax cartridge for sale

MultiMax is the ultimate cartridge for the (among others) Commodore MAX Machine (also known as Commodore Ultimax) game console. It contains all software titles (a total of 24, many with multiple versions) ever released by Commodore for this machine, selectable from a convenient power-on menu. A reset button is also included so that you do not need to power-cycle your…

MultiMax cartridge for sale

MultiMax is the ultimate cartridge for the (among others) Commodore MAX Machine (also known as Commodore Ultimax) game console. It contains all software titles (a total of 24, many with multiple versions) ever released by Commodore for this machine, selectable from a convenient power-on menu. A reset button is also included so that you do not need to power-cycle your…

World of Commodore 2014 – Altair 8800 loads 4K BASIC from paper tape

[youtube 5zbtNImG2NE nolink] World of Commodore 2014 happened this last weekend in Toronto. Although it is mostly a Commodore party, there is always space to show off others cool retro computers. On this video, it is shown how back in the day one should load a 4K BASIC into an Altair 8800. After all those steps, the computer will be…

BX720D project

Steve Gray is working on a new project. In 1983 Commodore wanted to sell a CBM-II BX-256-80 / BX-700 machine, but it never happened. Now Steve wants to built one himself. The specifications are: CBM-II 710 computer, 8250LP disk drives, 8088 co-processor board and a few extras. Website: http://www.6502.orgSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

C65 – FPGA

Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a 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 anti-aliasing, proportional fonts, a C65GS laptop, migration to Vivado, memory access and loading data via Ethernet. Website: http://c65gs.blogspot.com.au

Kick Assembler v3.37

The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: The following illegal nop opcodesare added: nop #$01 – nop $02 – nop $03,x – nop $1000 – nop $1000,x. Website: http://www.theweb.dk

GEM'X Extended Soundtrack by Chris Huelsbeck

GEM’X was a puzzle game on the Amiga computer, released around 1991. Super GEM’Z, the successor was never officially released due to the master disk being stolen at a trade show. A new game, which licensed the puzzle game elements and newly arranged music (including brand new tracks) is called Leona’s Tricky Adventures (available now on the Steam platform). Here,…

CGA to VGA Video converter to suit Amiga & other retro systems

Designed to enable the use of VGA monitors with older computers, the Microbee VGA video converter allows for analogue or digital inputs. The digital mode converts true CGA digital input (RGB + Intensity) and provides the proper CGA colour map. This is the mode that is used by the Microbee Premium, Premium Plus & 256TC models, along with regular IBM…

Retro Game Calendars 2015

Sunteam has created different desk calendars (PDF) with retrogaming motives which can be printed. Old CD cases can be used to present them. There are calendars with Amiga, C64, ZX Spectrum, ZX81 and SMS motives. Website: http://www.sunteam.co.uk