Category: Programming
Open Apple podcast has released a special episode produced by Mike Whalen about the 2016 Kansasfest. Back in July, Mike attended Kansasfest equipped with his audio production gear. While enjoying the Applepaloosa that happens every year, he captured a series of interviews and biographies. The production is superb in quality and content, giving a vivid image of what is Kansasfest, why people spend…
MSXDev’17 is a go, and the organizers are back preparing the iconic MSX development contest. This year, the MSXDev team is asking your input about the contest, rules, prizes, or whatever you think would make it a great contest. MSXDev’15 edition had a lot of road bumps, mainly for the lack of interest, even from the judges (you can read…
The retro games development team “Underground Arcade” has announced the AmiGameJam, a game development competition for the Amiga. This year theme is “TV Shows and Movies”, so the competitors will have to take inspiration from any TV show or movie to create their games. Although not mandatory, the organizers suggest that the developers pick something that was never used to…
Seth Bling is already known to build crazy things that run inside Minecraft. This week he surprised everybody once again when he presented a fully working Atari 2600 emulator running inside Minecraft. The emulator is capable of reading and running Atari cartridges, which were also built using Minecraft binary blocks structure (dirt or stones). There are no controllers, and the emulator…
Atari Crypt is a website dedicated to the Atari ST computers, and today Steve Gregory has announced the availability of the first issue of the AtariCrypt magazine. “Today, I am extremely proud to announce the availability of AtariCrypt Magazine. That’s right folks, a brand new magazine STuffed to the brim full of 16-bit gaming goodness. It has been designed by none…
The Facebook group Ottawa Vintage Computer Enthusiasts held on Nov 5th the first “real life” meetup. The meeting was held at the Makerspace North, which kindly let us use their excellent installations. Makerspace North was the best possible place to have the meeting as retro computing and the maker scene have so much in common as well as a very convenient location….
Freeze64, the Ultimate game cheat fanzine for the Commodore 64 has a new issue available for you to order. The printed magazine brings lots of Commodore 64 content, from games to programming techniques and interviews. This issue content: HUNCHBACK COVER FEATURE: We celebrate Ocean Software’s popular and successful platform arcade game Hunchback, sharing some of our POKES and CODES and…
Imanok, a prolific MSX game developer has announced that he’s taking pre-orders of his upcoming game ‘Tina’s Adventure Island’ for the MSX. According to the developer, you only need an MSX1 computer to play the 64Kb game, which features 35 stages and including 5 bosses. I played a bit of the demo available and the side scroller platformer game shows…
Open Apple podcast is now available for download to entertain you during your commute! This month’s episode brings a lenght interview with Alex Lee, the creator and maintainer of the “to-go” Apple IIgs website – What Is The Apple IIgs? “Alex walks through the history of IIgs emulators, and all the ways that the IIgs Finder was actually better than the Mac….
If you, like everybody else, is excited about the upcoming ZX Spectrum Next, a modern version of the iconic Sinclair computer you will be happy to know that the hardware development has reached the gold status! Victor Trucco has announced on Facebook that he is “satisfied with the results and designed the final PCB to produce a small batch as…
