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Starting with a healthy 21 competitors the 2015 competition is now LIVE! In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. Retrochallenge 2015/01 competition will run from New Years Day, January 1st to the end of the month, Saturday 31st January 2015. Typically the organizers will…
It was released last Dec 21st the new volume of the acclaimed HVSC – High Voltage SID Collection. If you follow Commodore is Awesome CSDb updates you know that already, however, such an important release deserves its own post. The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organizes Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music)…
It was released last Dec 21st the new volume of the acclaimed HVSC – High Voltage SID Collection. If you follow CiA CSDb updates you know that already, however, such an important release deserves its own post. The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organizes Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an…
New Year and New Open Apple podcast for your delight! “This month on Open Apple, we close out the year with our traditional Year-End Roundtable discussion. We’re joined by Eric ‘Sheppy’ Shepherd, Sarah W., and Carrington Vanston. We talk about alternate universes, our collective love of the IIgs, and Quinn takes cheap shots at Carrington. It’s the holidays, so Commodore…
In his website, Dave Cheney has built an Apple-1 replica using the Arduino platform: The Apple 1 was essentially a 6502 computer with 4k of RAM and 256 bytes of ROM. The inclusion of a 6821 PIA and a Signetics video encoder meant that the Apple 1 shipped with its own 2400 baud dumb terminal built in. Just supply your…
Brian Picchi, the curator of the Tanru Nomad Computer Museum and author of the 2013 Apple II game Lamb Chops, has released his source code to the public. According to Brian, the game is his first attempt to write something for the Apple II using 6502 assembly, so you shouldn’t expect the most clean code ever. It is a great…
It’s like getting the history of computer history nostalgia, all in one book! All ten issues of the groundbreaking computer history “zine” (newsletter / magazine) Historically Brewed & Classic Computing – in one professionally bound volume. Also includes the personal background story of David Greelish, Publisher and Editor (writer for many of the stories too). The entire run of issues…
Another great review from Retro Games Collector – now about the book The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels. As if in testimony to the ZX Spectrum’s enormous games library spanning decades, the first impression you get from the book is that is jam packed full and certainly has more pages than I had expected, 234 in total. The…
Inspired by Cinemaware’s upcoming release of the long lost Mega Drive version of It Came From The Desert, one Amiga fan has decided to recreate the ant blasting action in a first person shooter for the Commodore computer. Available as a free download, Did It Come From The Desert is one action packed 3D adventure Amiga gamers don’t want to…
Carlos Pardo, also known as Made in the demoscene world, is an highly-skilled graphist on modern platform that initially started on Amstrad CPC. He gave a great (and long) interview to norecess.cpcscene.net. Indeed, the CPC 6128 was my first computer. All started in 1988, my best friend and neighbor just had a brand new Amstrad 464. The home computing was…
