Category: Programming
We’ve been posting news about Paul Gardner-Stephen’s project on Commodore is Awesome very often, and today we are pleased to see that his efforts weren’t in vain. Today, he presented, in partnership with the people behind the Museum of Electronic Games & Art a new 8-bit computer – the MEGA65 Retro Computer. Strongly based on the never-released Commodore 65, the…
Brutal Deluxe software has added a number of cassettes to their Apple II cassette collection. The library, maintained by Antoine Vignau, has now grown to 633 cassettes. Some of the new titles are: Creative computing software: Voodoo castle adventure Innovative computer programs (by Ron Graff): The patient professor Instant software: Oil tycoon Mad hatter software: Diet planning package MUSE: Maze…
BBC has published a 5-episode podcast to discuss the computer languages that had (or still have) great impact in the computer industry – Codes that Changed the World. Each one of the first four episodes cover the languages FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, and Java, with a fifth episode discussing how so many different languages are able to coexist. As excepted we…
We reported back in January the BASIC 10Liners 2015 Contest, and at that time we thought we would have plenty of time to participate, right? Wrong! The contest has ended last April 11th, and the results are already online. In the PUR category (max. 120 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed) these are the top 10: 1. Carrera 3D2….
As you remember, we reported here the launch of Ultima IV Remastered. If, besides playing it, you like to dig down the bits, the author has published the source code of his port on GitHub. The page has all the instructions about how to build it yourself, maybe coming up with Ultima IV Revamped-Remastered version yourself, eh? Link: GitHub
This is a very interesting article showing how to emulate an Apple II using a microcontroller, like the Arduino Uno. The author shows how he implemented first the 6502 emulator, and then added the BASIC Interpreter. The first original Apple II had 4k or RAM, and the Arduino emulator provides only 1.5K free, which is enough to run some small…
[youtube uEZWAcr39lg nolink] Article written by Martin Maly, and published at www.uelectronics.info Everyone who had once owned a ZX Spectrum, surely had at least once seen an amazing loading effect and wondered: How are they doing this? So, come and have a read… It will be a long story and perhaps you might even learn something. Because ZX Spectrum didn’t…
Retro Programming website announced today the 4th challenge about Z80 programming the ZX Spectrum. The challenge consists in creating a program up to 50 bytes that will perform a fade-to-white CLS command. As shown by the animation above, the program will scan the monitor following a diagonal line, and changing the colours of the lines until it gets white. The…
Subreddit Retrobattlestations is calling all interested BASIC programmers out there to port the BASIC program ‘Space War’ to all possible platforms. The current code is available on GitHub for Apple II and HP 3000. The BASIC Week 4 is from March 21 to March 29, and to participate you have to port it to any retro computer using BASIC, and…
Chris Torrence, on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group has announced today that “Assembly Lines: The Complete Book” is now available as a FREE PDF on Open Library and the Internet Archive. Thanks goes out to Roger Wagner for releasing the book under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, making it possible to post it online. If you still prefer…
