Category: News
After much tinkering and optimizing, Bill Buckels has released v1.0 of Bmp2DHR, a graphics converter for 8-bit Apple II computers. Check out Bill’s site for the impressive results! Link: Bmp2DHR website Source: A2Central
A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #16, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. C64 Book, Creating a GEOS File Icon, Interviews: Alex Smith and Brian Green, Transfer SEQ Files to Evernote, Bulletin Board System, Review: Alter…
FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Unique CHRISTMAS Games!, UWOL – Quest For Money, Quedex, TRAZ, Hoppin’ Mad, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge,…
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 15-12-2014. 2014-12-15 new: Fast Brain (7Q Real Fiction Factory) done by Don Adan (Info,Image) 2014-12-15 improved: Nobby the Aardvark (Genesis/Thalamus) freeze at level 6 fixed (Info,Image) 2014-12-15 fixed: Delta Command – Arcadia (Arcadia Systems) music replay improved (Info,Image) New WHDLoad…
Jason Orriss released a new tactical game for the Commodore 64. He wrote the game in the late 90’s in the programming language BASIC. The game includes the LCARS interface which stands for Library Computer Access / Retrieval System. Download: Star Trek – The Next Generation.d64Website: CSDb
After (really too long) beta phase, it is finally released. PPC emulation that was supposed to be too pointless to implement is here. Also includes (less pointless but pointless enough) CD32 FMV emulation. And more. Much more. New emulated hardware: – PPC CPU emulation. CyberStorm PPC and Blizzard PPC boards emulated using QEMU PPC core, on-board SCSI supported. – Other…
[youtube YExuMjYb9Eg nolink] If you’ve run short of games to tackle on your Amiga then look no further. The questionably named Love Dungeon is the latest title to hit Commodore’s home computer, an arcade platformer drawing inspiration from the 1984 release Bruce Lee – one which is ready to take your Amiga to second base and beyond. Although the author…
On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: Our Atari Holiday Gift Picks – which is apparently now a tradition on our show Randy’s definitive roundup of virtual drive options Bill plays three new, award-winning games and lots of listener feedback about the Atari 850 interface Link: Antic
Roger Wagner’s Assembly Lines was an important information source for many programmers in the 1980’s. The article ran in Softtalk magazine over 33 issues. Chris Torrence has edited and published this book in close coordination with Roger Wagner under the Creative Commons 2.0 license and it is now available in hard cover from LULU.com for the production only pricing of…
After several years of quiet bit-rot, CiderPress and NuLib2 have received some new updates NuLib is a disk and file archive program, similar in principle to PKZIP, and CiderPress provides the features that Apple II enthusiasts need to manage their disk and file archives. Open them, view their contents, and copy files between them. There are other programs that provide…
