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Ready Player One is a science fiction novel by Ernest Cline. The book was published by Random House on August 16, 2011 and tells the story of Wade Watts, a teenager in the year of 2044, where the most played game is a virtual reality world called OASIS. The game is full of riddles based on pop culture from the…
MSX Magazine Revival were released by ASCII in 2003 in occasion of the platform 20th anniversary, and were sold only in Japan. Each edition had a companion CD containing games and other goods. Now, these CDs are freely available on our beloved Internet Archive in ISO format. Some of the contents of the CDs are: CD1 • “Pleasant 8-Bit Games:”…
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…
WinUAE 3100b14 has been released. WinUAE is without a doubt the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can get a really great Amiga hard drive experience like in the picture above. Download: winuae_3100b14.zipRelease Notes: http://eab.abime.netSource: http://www.winuae.net
Mid April 2014 development started to port Bruno’s Bruce Lee II to the Commodore 64. Almost a year later the game was finished. Even if the game originally looked like a Commodore 64 game it was very difficult to make it run on a real Commodore 64. The reasons are basically that the game contains a lot of features and…
[youtube uK8Iba29UK8 nolink] Watch the evolution of Apple keyboards from 1983 to today and see people’s reactions to them on the YouTube channel by The iBookGuy. Link: YouTube
Juiced.GS is completing 20 years in print, publishing the first issue of 2015. Among other articles, on this issue they review ‘Assembly Lines: The Complete Book’ and talk about how to use Xcode to cross-compile cc65 code. I am looking forward to get my copy! Link: Juiced.GS
Open Apple podcast #45 is out, and full of interesting Apple stuff. An interview with Mark Kriegsman, author of Star Blaster, and a modern Apple II hacker. He has ported the awesome FastLED driver library to the Apple II, so you can drive many hundreds of 32-bit RGB LEDs with your Apple II. Link: Open Apple
[youtube ugLH_ZiDtng nolink] Chris Wilkins, author of ‘The History of Ocean Software’ said on Facebook that he is feeling nostalgic, so he’s selling the book for 50% off, or only £10. It is a great deal, even after adding the shipping cost. To be able to get the discounted price, head over Fusion Retro Books website, add the book to…
It is out the episode #33 of FloppyDays. This month, Randy Kindig is covering the Atari 400/800. Here is some of the subjects covered during the podcast: New Acquisitions: Raspberry Pi – http://www.raspberrypi.org/ A2CLOUD – http://appleii.ivanx.com/prnumber6/category/a2cloud/ A2SERVER – http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/ News: Electric Dreams BBS Podcast – http://www.edbbspodcast.com/ – Mike Whalen and Jeff Salzman Link: FloppyDays
