Category: News

Immortal C64 Episode 61 Released

Immortal C64 Episode 61 – A new remix approaches!. Track Listing : Track Number / Start Time / Artist / Track Name / Track Length 01 .. 0:00:30 – Jason Page – Sanxion Remix – 5:22 02 .. 0:05:47 – Alexander Wiklund – SEC T 2013 – 1:37 03 .. 0:07:30 – Jonathan Dunn – Typhoon – 3:36 04 …..

Amiga User Interface Style Guide available for download

Retro Commodore has published a high-resolution scan of the Amiga User Interface Style Guide. “The purpose of this book is to describe how the user interface of a standard Amiga application should look and operate. It is intended to be read by current Amiga developers as well as developers who are considering writing and/or designing application software for the Amiga.” It…

New Jason Page C64 sid remix of Sanxion.

A new great remix tune from Jason Page, this time from Sanxion. Need I say more? nahhhh, go have a listen :) https://soundcloud.com/noothermedicine/sanxion-remix-c64-on-sid/comment-266907610

Amiga Games Awards – Vote for the best Amiga game of 2015

The Amiga-oriented website Obligement is calling all the Amiga gamers to vote on their favourite games of 2015. It includes games forAmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS. It is a great opportunity for all of us to go through the list and maybe find a new game that we didn’t know before. Top 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k,…

Z80-based Multitask Operating System 'SymbOS' 3.0 beta release

Yes, you read it right. Amstrad, MSX and Enterprise can get a modern multitask operating system and it actually works very well. SymbOS is a graphical user interface (GUI) based multitasking operating system for Z80 based supported home computers. SymbOS provides true multitasking and a complete windows like GUI. It supports up to 1024KB Ram for data and code execution…

The Digital Antiquarian's 1987 eBook now available

The Digital Antiquarian, Jimmy Maher, has been converting old blog posts to eBook format, making it easier to everyone to have a pleasant off-line reading session about the history of video game and computer entertainment as a whole. Jimmy Maher is well-known for many projects, including The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga. He has The Digital Antiquarian blog where he keeps…

Bomb Jack DX in development for Commodore 64, Beta 2 on new video!

Retrofan from Forum64 once more contacted us to let us know that a new video featuring Bomb Jack DX beta 2 is available on YouTube and you can watch it here. It looks simply awesome! There are a lot of improvements since our last post on last September. The current version has 4 out of 5 backgrounds almost complete, the p-coin can…

Floppy Days Podcast – The TI-99/4A – Tech Specs, Peripherals, Modern Upgrades with Tursi

This show is a continuation of the on-going series about the TI-99/4A computer. In the last couple of episodes, Randy Kindig had TI-99 fans Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills on the show and interviewed them about their experiences with the TI-99 and then they covered the history of the machine. In this show, Randy has a new co-host, Mike Brent,…

Retrochallenge Winter 2016 – Apple II Lo-Res C Library – Update #2

My retrochallenge is going forward, but I confess that my blog updates weren’t that frequent, as you can probably infer since we are on the 22nd of the month and this is my second post. Well, enough of apologies and let’s get down to the business. The first version, still as work in progress, is already available on Github. The…

'Macross 6502', Assembler developer by Lucasfilm now available!

There are so many 6502 good assemblers nowadays, including the modern KickAssembler and its javascripty macro capabilities. Now the 6502 developers have another option: Macross 6502. This assembler was developed between 1984 and 1987 by LucasFilm Ltd and used on the development of the game Habitat. Now, the project source code is available on Github, thanks to The Museum of Art…