Category: News
At this point in the podcast run, we are still in the late 1970’s time frame, and the OSI (Ohio Scientific Challenger) machines fall into that time frame for their release. No vintage computer historical journey would be complete without including these very important machines. As usual, Randy will cover the history, technical specs, peripherals, Web sites, books, emulation and…
Nic from “The Future was 8-bit” is getting ready to release the new batch of Commodore 64 laptops, the C64p. Don’t fool yourself, these machines are not made using Linux and some emulation, but they are actually a C64DTV hardware well assembled on a netbook shell. All of the internals of the donor netbook get scrapped. The original chargers have…
Mike Maginnis, the curator of the Apple II Scans website () has made available all of the issues of the Apple /// related Open Apple Gazette online. The Open Apple Gazette was the newsletter produced by the San Francisco based Apple ///’rs, an Apple /// centric users group. You can download all nine of the issues of the Open Apple…
The original Mario Bros that hit the Atari 2600 was less than stellar, to be honest. It was a serviceable version but it was lacking in many ways due to the capabilities of the hardware. Homebrew fans are working on fixing this, near, travesty, with a new and better Mario Bros for the Atari 2600. Right now, it is in…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: CIAdiag, 2×2 Hires, One Hour Koala II, Happy Birthday!, Bad Church, At Night, X’14 Party Report, Laxity Intro #60 (QR – tilted), Moonspire Preview +2, Moonspire Preview, The One Hour Koala, Taylortest, Booze Design Logo “Once Upon a Time”, Kanga +3D, Streetrunner, My Scary Intro v2, X-Force +35D [crazy hack], Choo Choo…
Todays updates over at Games that weren’t 64 are as follows: Black Knight 2 Evasion 3D Roam Samurai Warrior V1 Scooby Doo Here and there with the Mr Men Venom Blazer Paranoid Future Shock Charlie Chaplin Source: http://www.gamesthatwerent.com
Latest updates from Vinny over at c64endings.co.uk are as follows: Black Knight by Timsoft Bionic Commando (US) by Capcom Blood Brothers by Gremlin Graphics Better Dead Than Alien by Electra Software Bell Ringer 3 by G. Straume, S. Connolly Bushido by Firebird Website: http://www.c64endings.co.uk
Beta 25: – Added 1M/0.5M+0.5M chip/slow ram option checkbox to Advanced Chipset (for example in rev6 A500 it is JP2 solder pad). If hardware is configured for 1M chip without 512k slow ram, normal chip ram alias at upper 512k of chip ram address space gets replaced with “bus noise”. Can be only changed when chip RAM size is less…
Latest releases over at Aminet are as follows: SQLMan.lha, gTranslator.lha, ACE-MorphOS.lha, AmiArcadia.lha, AmiArcadia_OS4.lha, AmiArcadiaMOS.lha, xroar.lha, apg.lha, apg-source.lha, sha.lha and Click_Wit.lha. Download, more details and more files can be found over at http://aminet.net
Latest releases over at OS4 Depot are as follows: amiarcadia.lha, firefox2like_theme.lha, hottiesview.lha, sqlman.lha, click_wit.lha and mplayer-gui.lha. Download, more details and more files can be found over at http://www.os4depot.net
