Category: Retro News
The latest edition of the Open Apple podcast is up. Sean Fahey of A2Central is their special guest as they discuss the upcoming KansasFest, Easter eggs, Apple ][ clones, and the entire world’s supply of DB-19 connectors. Link: open-apple.netiTunes: View and subscribe
A1200.NET is already the sweetheart of all Amiga 1200 owners, with its recently successful kickstart campaign for the new A1200 casing. If you are one of the happy backers you might be thinking “my A1200 will have a brand new shiny case, but these old keycaps are awful…” Well, accordingly to Phillipe Lang, you will be able to get brand…
Kurt McCullum of Club 100 has released a terrific new ROM called “SARDOS” for the Tandy 100/102/200 and NEC PC-8201 laptop computers. This custom ROM combines Traveling Software’s TS-DOS with the T-Word/Sardine ROM to create an all-in-one word processing ROM for Tandy’s “Model T” laptop. How’d he do it? Well, he found space for TS-DOS by removing the approx. 7k…
That is interesting! With the retro gaming community growing fast, imagine if all the big publishers decide to open the vaults and start selling old games!? That is what MSX Resource Center announced today, telling us that David F. Gisbert (Tromax) and José A. (Konamito) have launched a petition at change.org, requesting Konami to re-release physical MSX games from their extensive…
Radio Shack has sold the TRS-80 Model I expansion in order to give the computer extended memory and floppy drives. Matthew Reed from TRS-80.org has published an article showing us that Radio Shack’s was not the only option to expand the Model I. You can learn more about it reading this interesting article. Link: TRS-80.org
If you are using Windows, OSX or any Linux graphical interface you are using the product of a groundbreaking project from the early 70’s, the Xerox Alto. The Alto was the first computer designed around a graphical user interface and introduced Ethernet and the laser printer[1] to the world. This article published on Ken Shirriff’s blog talks about the Alto and its impact…
A new episode of Sprite Castle has been released. The featured game is the rogue-like Sword of Fargoal by Epyx. Sword of Fargoal was created by author and programmer Jeff McCord and based on his original dungeon adventure, Gammaquest II, which was programmed in BASIC for the Commodore PETcomputer and written in 1979-1981 while he was still in high school…
The printed magazine Pro(c) Atari issue 10 is available now. There are 500 copies in English and 500 in German. This issue featuring a very cool add-on: ANTIC PICROSS II – a game especially coded for the MagazineAlso you can read about the following: you will also read about: TIME FOR A QUICKIE (Match Racer, Melt-Down, Crix) PRO(C) BLOG featuring…
Dan Wood from kookytech.net has published a video reviewing the Vampire 2 for the Amiga 600. The Vampire 2 is an incredibly fast FPGA accelerator for the Commodore Amiga 600, pushing it to speeds and power far beyond what was previously possible. But how good is it, and what can it do? You will find out watching the vldeo below: [youtube…
Philip Oliver has confirmed that he an his brother Andrew Oliver will be part of#CPCRetroDev 2016 jury. Philip and Andrew, known as The Oliver Twins, will evaluate presented games with respect to 4 main aspects: Fun&Engagement, Technical Quality, Graphics&Artistic Quality, and Music&Sound Effects. Their evaluation will be part of the general score that will decide on the best games in…
