Category: Retro Computing History
The Retro Hour is a popular English Retro Gaming Podcast run by Dan Wood, Ravi Abbot, Joe Fox and Paul Kitching. The guys have interviewed various famous people in the Retro Gaming Scene, including big names such as Rob Hewson, Jonathan Cauldwell, The Oliver Twins and Jim Bagley. Episode #106 features the highs and lows of DMA Design with Steve Hammond….
If you have never heard of Amiten TV, then you have been missing out! Johnny Acevedo has been running Amiten TV for four years now. That’s four years of exclusive Live Amiga Streams, Amiga interviews and More! Totalling more than 210 Episodes of Amiga related content! Johnny has been feeling down after all the hard work and effort he has…
Chris Wilkins has just announced a follow up “Crash Annual 2019” after the massive success of the Crash Annual 2018. This will be the 100th issue of the legendary ZX Spectrum magazine! There is even more good News!, Oliver Frey will be designing the cover art again, so you know it will be something very special! Look forward to a…
John W. Linville, the omnipresent CoCo advocate and host of the CoCo Crew Podcast, just published on his Retro Tinker blog that the Infocom’s Z Interpreter source code for the Color Computer has been recovered and it is available on the Color Computer Archive. For those not familiar, the Z Interpreter (or Z Machine) was developed by Infocom allowing them…
If you haven’t noticed yet, the retro computing scene is alive and more active than ever! What better proof of that than a brand new language that can only be used on 30+-year-old computers! After a few beta releases in the past couple months, PLASMA (Proto Language AsSeMbler for Apple) 1.0 is finally officially out. PLASMA is a medium level…
It’s time to return to the Strike series as Kilbaba’s son returns for revenge. Time for Lorfarius to grab his Chopper and take on the evil terrorist hordes! Be sure to visit the AMIGArama website and Facebook page. Download: AMIGArama_Episode_15_Jungle_Strike.mp3 YouTube: Lorfarius Episodes: podbean.com
Scene World Podcast #43! Talking about Bitpop with composer Gavin Graham! Awesome interview in which you will learn a lot about SID music styles, C64 sound drivers, and bitpopping of course! Listen to it! scene.world/bitpopmusic
I was going over my feed looking for good news to post here when I found this one coming from NintendoAge and at first, I thought I’d got the wrong idea. After reading it a couple of times, I realized we are talking about a six-figure bounty reward for the original artwork used for the game Contra released for the…
The guys over at C64.com have recently interviewed Mihaly Kenczler. Mihaly worked on Express Raider and Impossible Mission II. You can read the interview here. Website: C64.com
Kotaku has published an interesting article reporting that Activision’s Dragster for the Atari 2600 World record set by Todd Rogers 35 years ago was removed from Twin Galaxies, an organization that tracks video game records and high scores. Although Rogers had proved his feat using a Polaroid photo, people now believe that he managed to fool everybody until today. Kotaku continues…
