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The Micro BitA major BBC project, developed in pioneering partnership with over 25 organisations, will give a personal coding device free to every child in year 7 across the country – 1 million devices in total. Still in development and nicknamed the Micro Bit, it aims to give children an exciting and engaging introduction to coding, help them realise their…
Brendan Robert has been busy, working hard on a new version of his Java Apple Computer Emulator. During the weekend he posted some teaser screenshots on the Facebook Apple II Enthusiasts group. There, he says that the new JavaFX version is almost beta-ready. The emulator didn’t receive any update for a while, and the changes/improvements are more than welcome –…
Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman, a prolific computer game programmer, designer, and industry veteran, will be delivering a keynote at KansasFest. “Heineman learned programming at age 16 and gained fame in 1980 as the first National Space Invaders Champion with a score of 165,200. Her career soon blossomed with credits in over 250 games including classics such as Tass Times in…
The TransWarp GS is one of the best and most expandable of the accelerator cards. With its expandable cache and upgradable clock, this card is definitely a must have for every Apple IIgs user. A2Central has broken the news showing the first pictures of the cloned TranswarpGS board in testing. Within a week or so, prototypes will be shipped out…
Nextor is a disk operating system for MSX computers. It is actually an enhanced version of MSX-DOS, with which it is 100% compatible, and it identifies itself as MSX-DOS 2.31 to MSX-DOS aware applications. This version is the first one incorporating a much requested feature: the disk image emulation mode, that allows to boot the computer using disk image files…
The guys behind the new Retro VGC are doing a limited run of Jag Console Case and Carts. It is very important for the interested people to know that the Translucent Jag orders have to be in by this Monday morning 8:00 AM pacific time USA. Console shell is $45 delivered in USA and $8 for carts. International add $15…
If you like to use BitTorrent, then you have another use for it now: Our Podcast can be downloaded and seeded via .torrent now, thanks to Bitlove: http://bitlove.org/scene_world/podcast!
[youtube ltqO5O7VUcw nolink] Prepare to be Slain!Coming to PC/Mac/Linux in May 2015 Players control Bathoryn, a hero in a Gothic world, seeking to liberate seven great towers.Bathoryn must battle his way through a doomed land packed with gruesome pixel art foes before ascending (or sometimes descending) each tower, defeating puzzles, traps and monsters alike. At the heart of each tower,…
WinUAE 3100b12 has been released, rather than posting the usual changes on Commodore is Awesome, we are supplying a direct link as the list is very long this time around. Download: winuae_3100b12.zipRelease Notes: http://eab.abime.netSource: http://www.winuae.net
Ten days ago we reported about a new Kickstarter project that was started by Dallas Moore, who managed to acquire the original Commodore 64C steel molds that Commodore used back in the day! The Kickstarter was a MASSIVE success ($56,584 pledged of $10,000 goal and still running) and low and behold Dallas has listened to our cries over the internet…
