Category: Retro Computing History
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-final-years-book Brian Bagnall recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to secure funding for his new book, Commodore: The Final Years. This will be the third and final book in Bagnall’s Commodore trilogy (previous titles include Commodore: A Company on the Edge and Commodore: The Amiga Years), charting the computer giant’s golden years from 1987, starting with the launch of the Amiga…
Call A.P.P.L.E (Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange) was created by Val Golding in 1978 which means, you believe or not, it is turning 40 years old this year. At some point in the 80’s, it reached more than 50,000 members. Although we don’t have that many Apple II users anymore, Call A.P.P.L.E keeps going strong. As part of the celebration, the group…
Espectro Magazine is a Portuguese-speaking printed publication fully devoted to the ZX Spectrum. It is a co-production between Portuguese and Brazilian enthusiasts, who just announced the issue #3. The new issue brings a treat for its readers: a cover tape! Yes, the magazine will have a cassette tape bundled and it will include four games, including two exclusively available for…
Jamie Lendino, author of Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, has published an article at Extremetech.com telling how he found out his book was pirated and put for sale at Amazon, just next to his own. It seems an author named Steve S. Thomas has taken Jamie’s “Breakout” book and copied it word by word and made it available…
As you might know, the MSX platform is very popular in Brazil, with an extensive and very active community. The only thing that was missing was a new printed magazine. Until now! Mario Cavalcanti has contacted us to announce the launch of a new quarterly magazine next June. Clube MSX will have the standard magazine size (20,5 cm x 27,5…
If you are slightly tuned to the Atari homebrew scene, you know it is alive, well and stronger than ever. Many great games have been created in the past years, including many of them being released as physical cartridges. Although most of the information about them comes from AtariAge forums, it is not easy to keep track of everything that…
In the third in a series articles, I hope you’ll join me on this trip down memory lane as I look back at the Commodore Amiga, a truly revolutionary computer in every sense of the word. Of all the computers and video game systems that I’ve owned over the years, it is undoubtedly the Amiga that I consider my favourite,…
You Say Tomato, I say C128-40! Before I dive into the innards of my CBM 710D and we go spelunking for missing chips, I want to introduce the other computers in the B series. There were actually three main variants of this line of computers: The high-profile version with the integrated monitor. The video chip in the high profile machines…
Ah, Retro Challenge… The most optimistic challenge ever created: get a bunch of people to complete a project about old computers, in one month. Let’s set aside the question of how likely it is that your average retro tinkerer actually completes any of the 20+ “projects” they inevitably have going. (Hint: they’re called “tinkers”, not “gods of the retroverse” for a…
Team Rusty Pixels has released a new scroll demo for the ZX Spectrum Next: ScrollNutter. If you are a coder, you will be happy to know that all the source code is included! Releasing the source of this demo, Jim Bagley and the Rusty Pixels team hope that anyone looking into to developing on the ZX Spectrum Next will be…
