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Moldi’s Treasure releases come to an end. Plus/4 World has published the 10th flowout from the treasure chest donated to them by Moldi. Inside the chest there were five hundred programs not included in any archive before! Plus/4 World crew make sure to thank! “Moldi we’ll never thank you enough for this immense feeding of Plus/4 stuff!” Here it is, that’s the…
In 2014, Bitmap Books launched a campaign for the first book, Commodore 64: a visual Compendium. After its astonishing success, a new edition was planned and a Kickstarter campaign launched four days ago. Today, the campaign is already 100% funded. Actually it has passed the first target by 50% already. This can only be explained by the excellent quality of…
A new and improved version of Dingo for the Spectrum is available for download The changes in the 2015 version (version 1.3) are; A much improved control method. This was the bug-bear for many people with the original release, but it’s now MUCH better. Enemy pre-spawn warning – so you can see where the Dingos are about to appear and…
Floppy Emu is a Floppy Drive emulator for the Apple II and Macintosh classic. It uses a removable SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive. The Emu behaves exactly like a real disk drive, requiring no special software or drivers. The new rev B brings welcoming new features:…
Skool Daze is finally complete and freely available. Skool Daze is a computer game released by Microsphere in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 computers. It was written by David and Helen Reidy, with graphics designed by Keith Warrington. The game was commercially and critically successful, and praised for its original concept. It has since been regarded as…
DurexForth team has been very active lately. They just released the version 1.5.2 of the language for the Commodore 64 with the following changes: bugfix: find now handles the empty string correctly bugfix: editor didn’t work correctly with big files (over $1000 bytes) forth: the interpreter now prints “ok” after interpreting forth: abort” now inverts the text editor: open files…
What can you make using only 10 lines in a BASIC program? That is what this contest wants to see. The contest is open for all 8-bit computers using any line-based BASIC interpreter. There are few categories you can try to snag the first spot: Category “PUR-80”: Write a game in 10 lines (max. 80 characters per logical line, abbreviations are…
Just go the Kickstarter backer’s update email from 8bitkick saying that the cards are already in production. The estimated delivery has been updated to February. This is later than estimated at the beginning of the Kickstarter. Don explains that the project was bigger than what he first estimated, but now everything is on target to start the delivery in February….
It is almost one year since we posted about an upcoming R-Type game for the Atari STE. We are a bit late to tell you that the game was released last Christmas, but since it is never too late to have good news, here it is! The game can now be downloaded for free from Atari-Forum .com, and it was…
KansasFest 2016, the 28th annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 19 – 24 in Kansas City, Missouri. This edition will have a very important presence, Mike Harvey, founder and publisher of Nibble magazine, the “Magazine for Apple II Enthusiasts”. Nibble was published between 1980 and 1992. KansasFest is an annual convention offering Apple II users and retrocomputing enthusiasts…
