Category: Programming
CBM prg Studio, by Arthur Jordison, is a complete IDE for Commodore development in both BASIC and Assembler. He just announced a new version containing very interesting new features! Assembler: SaveBlock directive. Repeat…EndRepeat directive. Improved IfDef directive. Start address can be a label. Screen Editor: New export options for assembly and BASIC programs. General: “Go to” dialog can now use BASIC…
Mini vMac for iOS is a classic Macintosh (Mac Plus, Mac II or Mac 128K) emulator that runs on any iOS device (version 9 and up). The project is being around since 2016, but now anyone can enjoy it. Since Apple never allow emulators to be available on the official App Store, Jesús A. Álvarez has released the complete project with…
The long-running TRS8Bit newsletter has a special treat for its readers: a special edition containing a compilation of all BASIC one-liners published throughout the years. The free “package” contains a PDF with the articles that brought the one-liners and a DSK image with all of them ready to run! (although I personally think you should try to type at least…
Introduction 10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD!” 20 GOTO 10 For many of us old-timers, our first exposure to computer programming was BASIC: the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. According to the Wikipedia entry on BASIC, the language was created in 1964. I may be old, but at least I’m not quite as old as BASIC. This series will demonstrate some of the…
There is a new update on the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing everything that was accomplished so far, including all the help the community gave to the ZX Spectrum Next team to ensure the early problems with the boards were fixed. Now the question that we keep asking! How about the full computers? The final design of the case…
A new version of Virtual II emulator has been released. The new version 8.0 brings many new features and improvements. The big changes are behind the scenes, resulting in a 64-bit application that is compatible with the most recent MacOS APIs changes. This, at the end, ensures the longevity of Virtual ][ running on this and the next versions of…
Galencia is a new game created by Jason Aldred. At a glance, you could think it is merely a re-skinned Galaga but there is more to it, and we going to take a look here. Galaga is an icon in the video game realm, just next to Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. I remember playing the game on arcades but, although I love…
Atariteca is a website that publishes news and articles related to the Atari 8-bit machines. It has published a new article which is actually an open poll asking for the visitors to vote for the best original game of 2017. The site is in Spanish, but anyone will be able to vote since retro gaming language is universal :) Here…
Would you buy new a computer for US$ 24,000 nowadays? Unless you are loaded, the answer is probably “no”. That is what happened with the Apple Lisa when it was released in 1983 for US$ 10,000. Although it had very cool technology with its Graphic User Interface and the use of a mouse to interact with the computer, only about…
Kick Assembler is the combination of an assembler for doing 6510 machine code and a high level script language. Read more about the many features in the manual. New release (v4.17) Bugfix: A define directive inside a macro gave a nullpointer exception. Thanks to Peter Rasmussen for pointing this out! Website: http://www.theweb.dk/KickAssembler/
