Category: News

Apple IIc Plus Accelerator Control

Quinn Dunki while not recording Open Apple podcast, keeps herself busy tinkering with the Apple IIc. She has published on her blog, Blondihacks, an extensive and super-geeky article to show how she was able to add an accelerator control for the Apple IIc plus, a machine that was able to run on both 4Mhz and the Apple II standard 1.023Mhz….

New accelerator board Vampire II makes the Amiga 600 fly!

The Vampire II is the newest and the fastest accelerator available for your Amiga 600. It will sit on top of your original CPU and take full control of your Amiga. According to the developers of the board, the board is faster than an Amiga 1200 with a 68060 accelerator running at 80MHz. If you are concerned about the heat,…

French Touch keeping Apple II DemoScene alive!

Commodore 64 has so many active demoscene groups active and releasing many demos throughout the year that is hard to keep up. Apple II enthusiasts, on the other hand, haven’t been so lucky.t least in terms of quantity. At least in terms of quantity! If we focus on quality, however, Apple II community has plenty to celebrate thanks to French…

Live C64 Multiplayer Matches today at Scene World Twitch Stream!

This Saturday January 30th 2016 at 8 PM CET, Scene World staff will play against each other online using real Commodore 64s! This will be the first online broadcast EVER of C64s playing online together! Leif Bloomquist (Schema) – creator of the famous C64 Wifi Adapter and the C64 Internet games NetRacer and Vortex will face off against Oliver (Six),…

After 5 years, 'Amiga Point of View' Magazine to release issue #5

Amiga Point of View (APoV) is a magazine published by the English Amiga Board forum. The last issue #4 was released in 2010. Almost 6 years have passed and it was announced that material for the issue 5 is required and an invitation was sent to all Amiga enthusiasts. “Now that blackcornflake has returned to the EAB, following his spiritual kung…

'Archon' for C64 gets browser-based version with online multiplayer support

Archon – The Light and the Dark was ported to your browser, where you can play the game alone or using the new online multiplayer feature. The game looks exactly like the Commodore version, and it also plays the same. If you don’t lnow or remember the game, C64-Wiki has a good description: Archon – The Light and the Dark looks like…

A520HD – Commodore Amiga RGB to HDTV Component Adapter

If you CRT is dying fast, and the options to connect your Amiga to a modern monitor are not easy to come around, you should take a look at the A520HD, the HDTV equivalent of the classic Commodore A520 TV modulator. Instead of encoding the Amiga video signal to a low-quality composite output it converts the RGB output to a high-quality…

The 'Penultimate Cartridge' for VIC-20 gets new updates

Tynemouth Software has been developing an expansion cartridge for the Commodore VIC-20, adding RAM and ROM expansion selectable by dipswitches. There is a new update from the previous prototype, expanding it by adding 4 pins to each of the chips. The RAM is upgraded from a 62256 (32Kx8) to a 621024 (128Kx8), and the ROM from 27C512 (64Kx8) to 27C040…

The 25th Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST is happening in April

Hosted by the Glenside Color Computer Club, CoCoFEST! is an annual festival centered around the Radio Shack Color Computer and other 6809-based hardware and operating systems, bringing together retro computing enthusiasts from around the globe. The organizers want to make clear that other 8-bit computers and operating systems are also welcome! The event will happen on April 23 and 24,…

'Priest John McPuke' – New game for Atari 8-bit (with Source Code!)

The AtariAge forum user ‘mgr_inz_rafal’ has released a new game for the Atari 8-bit computers called ‘Priest John McPuke’, an adventure game which according to the developer, delivers a vast world, a multitude of different locations, a throng of items to use and an interesting story. The game was released last Christmas in Polish, and now the English version made its…