Category: Retro News
The previously uncontrollable demo is now controllable!, thanks to Adrian Singh who hacked the code on the demo to enable the keyboard. Amazingly this is the first piece of hacking he has done for at least 27 years. Hats off to him! Thanks to him for taking the time to do this. Keys are: ‘A’ – up / pressed with…
Civilization is a global strategy game released in 1991 by MicroProse under the direction of Sid Meier, who weighs as legendary within the industry. It is one of the most popular and most successful games of all times. The player has the task to guide a tribe from the New Stone Age through the history of mankind up to the…
We had a chat with our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64 recently and he has sent over some fantastic “Exclusive News!”, regarding the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Retrofan has uploaded a new Beta 4 video to his YouTube channel and as you can see, the game is looking Fantastic! First thing you will notice, OneBitman has completely remade the Music…
Situated an hour from the city of Toronto, and two hours from the Detroit/Windsor border lays a very unique museum designated to the history of personal computing. The Personal Computer Museum located at 13 Alma St, Brantford, Ontario Canada is home to an interactive display of over 50 functioning computers, with over 1000 total in storage, over 25,000 pieces of…
This article, write by Matt Gallagher, tell us his work in bringing to the latest MacOS (Sierra) code he wrote back in the late 90’s for the OS 8. Despite the practical objective of the article, which is very interesting by itself, Matt enriches the article with a very interesting summary of some of the tools used to build Mac applications for…
Reset64 is already part the reading habits of any C64 enthusiasts out there due to its content and production quality. We are happy to see a new issue coming out now, freely available in PDF format. Issue 9.5 is a Holiday Special featuring a 2017 wish list and the usual articles, news, and reviews. Here is the complete content this…
This is not “hot news”, but it is always fun to share tidbits of computer history! “Loop”, “Library” and “Patch” are common terms used among programmers, while “Bug” is widely known by users as well, but do you know when they were used for the first time? The Harvard University maintains a page about the Mark I, the first programmable computer in…
Z88DK is a C cross compiler package that targets the z80 and consists of a C compiler, an extensive set of assembly language libraries, an assembler / linker, and a tool for generating executables in a number of formats. Development in C, assembly language or a mixture of the two is directly supported. After one year since the last release, it…
Once upon a time, young(er) Erik Hooijmeijer sent his new game to a publisher but he didn’t get any answer, only his disk back. For the lack of explanation, he just assumed the game was no good and gave up. After unburying his C64 after all these years, he found the once-rejected game and decided it was finally time to…
Viva Amiga, the already acclaimed documentary about the Commodore Amiga, is now available to watch worldwide. The film has been subtitled in Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. You can rent or buy a copy on the platform of your choice: iTunes Amazon Video Vimeo The DVD & Blu-Ray will be available in February. Link: Viva Amiga
