Category: Retro Computing History
The BASIC 10Liners contest is, for me, one of the highlights of the retro scene and I am happy to announce that the 7th edition of the competition is already online, accepting new entries. This year, the organizers have changed a few rules after receiving some feedback from the previous edition. The most important change is that for the PUR-80…
Although Glen is currently covering a conversion from the arcade version of Defender to the Color Computer, he took the time to step back a bit and write an article that gives an overview of the process to convert an arcade game to the Color Computer. The post is not very long, and also is easier to grasp the overall…
I am already regretting to write this post since I cannot accept anything Internet-related is vintage. On the other hand, I understand that someone reading this who’s 24 years old would be saying “wow, Mosaic was created before I was born!” so here is the news out of respect of the younger generations! Mosaic, the first popular web browser is…
Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. Episode 11.1 ‘Gone Fishing’ is now available to listen and download. Download: January-Week-3.mp3 Website: amigausers.ie
Amiga User is a paper magazine in English for all you lovely Amiga users. :) Classics and NG systems, emulators enthusiasts, gamers and demoscene fans. Contents: -Best strategy games -ACA500plus practical review -Audio software tips -creating localization files and much more! Website: amiga.net.pl
The Retrogaming Times is a Retro Computer Magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition; -Prepare to Qualify -Upcoming Events -More C64! – More Than The Human Body *COVER STORY* -Apple II Incider – Star Wars Memories -The Controller Chronicles – TurboGrafx-16 -The Retrogaming Times Newsletter Legacy Archive Is Live -The Magical Vacation – Starring Uncle Edward…
We, “retro” enthusiasts, know well that time goes too fast and we are all aging at the same speed, but we never can expect when someone in the retro scene passes away. This morning I learned through many UK gaming outlets that Bob Wakelin has passed away. He was mostly known in UK and the rest of Europe where Ocean…
It is fairly common to hear stories of people that either kept their first computer since childhood or purchased the same model as the one they had back then. I just had a slightly different experience on my own. I recently went back to Brazil to visit family and attend my sister’s wedding. As any trip of that focus on…
Apple II computer enthusiasts are fortunate to have a very active community and to reinforce that, John Brooks has announced via Call A.P.P.L.E (adding these dots is so laborious!) that a new release of ProDOS is available for download. This is a minor release bringing fixes for the major 2.4 version, released months ago. Release Notes: Bugs fixed: If a directory…
If you think that paying US$ 15,000 for a brand new, fully loaded iMac is crazy, imagining paying 4 times that for an Apple LISA? Call A.P.P.L.E website just reported that an Apple LISA 1 was sold on eBay for a whopping USD 56,100. The unit is fully functional and came with lots of manuals and software, says the buyer…
