Category: Podcast
John Linville has just announced that the episode 13 of CoCo Crew podcast is now available, featuring an interview with Wes Kussmaul (the founder of Delphi). Ther is also the usual news, feedback, discussion, technical, and games segments. Link: CoCoCrew.org
Episode 129 of the Retro Computing Roundtable is out. Their hot topic for the month: Was the tech in the 80’s better than today? Was the 80’s tech better, or do you prefer today’s offerings? What did you love about the 80’s tech, and what do you miss? I think we all know the answer to that one. Anyway, looks…
This episode features Rich Man’s 80 Column Word Processor, originally released in 1985 by Computer Software Services (CSS). It was written by Mark Rogalski. Sadly, the program requires 52K of memory, so my 48k 400 will have to miss out on the fun. Link: https://inverseatascii.info/Subscribe: iTunes
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
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…
John W. Linville, from the CoCo Crew podcast, has published an article showing his design of an adapter that allows you to use SEGA Genesis (or Megadrive) with the CoCo3. Also, he mention that a dual-joypad version of this adapter was produced and built by his podcasting partner Neil Blanchard. You can watch a quick demo in the video below…
New podcast!Darren Melbourne, creator of the C64 DTV, is trying to bring the C64 back with The 64, a reimagining of the Commodore 64 in both console and handheld form. Listen to us talk to him about this new project, and how his history has led to what he’s doing now! http://sceneworld.org/blog/2016/05/28/podcast-episode-22-the-64-with-darren-melbourne/
CinnyVision episode 115 has brought a fascinating featured article telling the story about how Amstrad bought Sinclair back in 1986. The report claims to dig deep into the facts, which are not always accurate throughout the Internet with articles based on magazine reports from that time when not all facts have been fully understood, or even publicized. The video also…
Since we have very angry visitors (I am looking at you Commodore community), we don’t do any prank or fake article for April 1st in respect to them. That don’t prevent us from posting something about someone else’s jokes containing a note stating that it is an April fool’s joke, of course. This one came from Apple II Juiced.GS…
The 8-bit guy YouTube channel turned on the reference of easy to understand explanations about old tech. Few months back his video entitle “How oldschool graphics worked Part 1″ was watched by more than 2 million times after it reached most of the major tech news outlets. This new release talks about the CGA graphics standard seen on many PC compatibles computer…
