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A new episode of the Personal Computing podcast is available. In this episode: David and Jeff talk about computer magazines from 1974 until 1980. They talk about the magazines: ROM, The Transactor, Compute!, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Creative Computing, Byte, Kilobaud and Interface Age. Website: http://www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com
A2Central has published an article about their impressions of some new products from UltimateApple2 and ReactiveMicro, an NSC successor that is slimmer than the original No-Slot Clock and features a user replaceable coin cell battery. About the original NSC, it was explained that “…No Apple II (prior to the IIGS) had a built-in clock. (…) All alternatives at the time…
This episode features Atari Memo Pad, originally released in 1979 by Atari. This program for the Atari 8 bit line of computers was the first multi function productivity software suite for the Atari. As usual, the companion website brings lots of screen shots, and the Memo Pad Operating System one is particularly interesting to check! Link: Inverse ATASCII
It was announced today on the Retro Video Gamer forum, that a massive 400+ page book based on the Atari VCS games library will be published soon. It will come completely packed with VCS artifacts and cover over 105 games in its first volume. It was explained that everything has been remastered to the highest standard, including box art, cartridge…
Gubbdata 2015 Demo Party happened last weekend, and now the official C64 results are available. You can check all entries and their score following the link below, but here are the highlights: C64 Demo:1 – Requiem by Vision.2 – Stereophonik [2sid] by Mahoney.3 – The Butterfly Effect by Offence. C64 Music:1 – Amen, Bigbeat Brother! by Jammer.2 – Northern Star…
Retro Programming website announced today the 4th challenge about Z80 programming the ZX Spectrum. The challenge consists in creating a program up to 50 bytes that will perform a fade-to-white CLS command. As shown by the animation above, the program will scan the monitor following a diagonal line, and changing the colours of the lines until it gets white. The…
Another great release for the Commodore 64. This time we are talking about Bruce Lee II! In 2013, Bruno R. Marcos released a spiritual successor to the Bruce Lee game, originally released in 1984 by Datasoft Inc. Bruno’s game runs on Windows and Linux but it was created to look like games for the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. Last…
Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap and the output is an PostScript file. Changes in this version are: Improved the processing of very large bitmaps. Made a few general improvements and removed small errors. The program is available for Amiga OS4, Linux and…
The PiDP-8 is a project to replicate the hardware of the 8/I in a modern format. Instead of hundreds of Flip Chips, this PDP-8 is powered by a Raspberry Pi running the SIMH emulator. The 40-pin GPIO connector on the Pi is broken out to 92 LEDs and 26 toggle switches on a large PCB. The creator of the project…
Quietly working for that past few months, MagerValp, member of Genesis Project has released a remastered version of Ultima IV for the Commodore 64. The improvements are huge, going from graphics overhauling to brand new features. Here is the full list of changes: Graphics Overhaul Character creation intro has new graphics drawn by Vanja ‘Mermaid’ Utne. The tileset has been…
