Category: Retro News
Although it is the only Apple II podcast around, it deserves the “best” title. Open Apple brings every month a nice balance of technical, geek and normal retro computing discussions regarding the Apple II. This month’s episode, number 55, brings Henry Courbis, co-proprietor of Ultimate Micro, serial entrepreneur, and Open Source guy. Henry is boldly going where no hobbyist has gone before, by…
The Vampire II is the newest and the fastest accelerator available for your Amiga 600. It will sit on top of your original CPU and take full control of your Amiga. According to the developers of the board, the board is faster than an Amiga 1200 with a 68060 accelerator running at 80MHz. If you are concerned about the heat,…
This Saturday January 30th 2016 at 8 PM CET, Scene World staff will play against each other online using real Commodore 64s! This will be the first online broadcast EVER of C64s playing online together! Leif Bloomquist (Schema) – creator of the famous C64 Wifi Adapter and the C64 Internet games NetRacer and Vortex will face off against Oliver (Six),…
Archon – The Light and the Dark was ported to your browser, where you can play the game alone or using the new online multiplayer feature. The game looks exactly like the Commodore version, and it also plays the same. If you don’t lnow or remember the game, C64-Wiki has a good description: Archon – The Light and the Dark looks like…
If you CRT is dying fast, and the options to connect your Amiga to a modern monitor are not easy to come around, you should take a look at the A520HD, the HDTV equivalent of the classic Commodore A520 TV modulator. Instead of encoding the Amiga video signal to a low-quality composite output it converts the RGB output to a high-quality…
Tynemouth Software has been developing an expansion cartridge for the Commodore VIC-20, adding RAM and ROM expansion selectable by dipswitches. There is a new update from the previous prototype, expanding it by adding 4 pins to each of the chips. The RAM is upgraded from a 62256 (32Kx8) to a 621024 (128Kx8), and the ROM from 27C512 (64Kx8) to 27C040…
The AtariAge forum user ‘mgr_inz_rafal’ has released a new game for the Atari 8-bit computers called ‘Priest John McPuke’, an adventure game which according to the developer, delivers a vast world, a multitude of different locations, a throng of items to use and an interesting story. The game was released last Christmas in Polish, and now the English version made its…
The Amiga-oriented website Obligement is calling all the Amiga gamers to vote on their favourite games of 2015. It includes games forAmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS. It is a great opportunity for all of us to go through the list and maybe find a new game that we didn’t know before. Top 3 games of each systems (AmigaOS 68k,…
Yes, you read it right. Amstrad, MSX and Enterprise can get a modern multitask operating system and it actually works very well. SymbOS is a graphical user interface (GUI) based multitasking operating system for Z80 based supported home computers. SymbOS provides true multitasking and a complete windows like GUI. It supports up to 1024KB Ram for data and code execution…
The Digital Antiquarian, Jimmy Maher, has been converting old blog posts to eBook format, making it easier to everyone to have a pleasant off-line reading session about the history of video game and computer entertainment as a whole. Jimmy Maher is well-known for many projects, including The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga. He has The Digital Antiquarian blog where he keeps…
