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This is a quick “heads up”. Fusion Retro Books is giving away the PDF version of “The Story of the Commodore 64 in pixels”. I have the printed version and it is a gorgeous book, full of great images. If you didn’t buy it before, this is a great opportunity to get the digital version for free. To download it,…
Juan J. Martínez has announced the availability of his new game for the MSX platform, Night Knight. The story starts when Sir Bernard, an old knight, has been cursed by a witch prevent him to sleep unless he has gone for a long walk. The hero has to cover 80 levels while avoiding enemies. Sir Bernard can go left and…
XRoar is a primarily a Dragon emulator for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Windows. It also emulates the Tandy Colour Computer models 1 & 2, due to hardware similarities. Because its multiplatform nature, XRoar was also ported to the PS3 and Android. The version 0.35.4 is out, including many fixes and additions, including (from version 0.35): Mac OS X…
Yellowed plastics can be a nightmare for people who like their electronics to remain in an immaculate condition as much as possible. Some might disagree and argue that yellowed plastic adds charm to a vintage piece of electronic but for most of us, the more we love the device and especially when it ticks the box as a rare device,…
Paweł Mandes has posted today on Atari 8-bit Computers Facebook group a link to a very detailed article explaining how you can very easily build a disk drive/tape recorder emulator for Atari 8-bit computers using an Arduino and few more parts. His tutorial covers the SDrive-MAX project, an open source disk drive/tape recorder emulator for Atari 8-bit computers, based on…
Doc Cosmos creator impresses with early gameplay footage of this 8-bit conversion!
AMIGArama makes a return to the Bubble Bobble series but not is all as it should be on the otherside of this 16-Bit Rainbow.
This is a data cassette from the company Vendex. Vendex sold computer supplies under the name of Microcomputer Club Nederland.
We have released a new video containing the April 2019 demo releases. Although the month had only six releases – one full demo and five one-disk demos, the quality is high. To mention a couple, the Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Hokuto Force will take you to a trip full of astonishing PETSCII art with a very “introspective” SID…
No matter what you do for a living, you are probably directly or indirectly affected by Ken Thompson work. He designed and implemented the original Unix operating system, which is not only still “around” but also the base for many other systems like Linux and MacOS. On Saturday morning, the fairly large Room 1 was not enough to fit all…
