Category: Retro Computing History
JustinFrancoeur, besides helping with Vintage is The New Old content, he maintains the website www.dcinthe80s.com which as the name suggests, is a webzine for DC comics fans from the 80s. A byproduct of his website is the fanzine, Baxter Stock which is released in print with no specific periodicity. Back in November or so he told me that he was…
Over at Fusion Retro Books, you can pick yourself up some awesome Retro reading for pocket money prices! At time of writing the following books are on sale at just £1.00! The story of the Commodore Amiga in Pixels_ PDF The History of Ocean Software PDF The Story of US Gold PDF There are many other PDF Retro books on…
A new version of Virtual II emulator has been released. The new version 8.0 brings many new features and improvements. The big changes are behind the scenes, resulting in a 64-bit application that is compatible with the most recent MacOS APIs changes. This, at the end, ensures the longevity of Virtual ][ running on this and the next versions of…
Kilobyte Magazine is a hobbyist magazine dedicated to 8-bit computing today. This edition contains the following articles: The Art of Floppy Disk Sleeves 50 Years of Logo How a Commodore 64 can produce VR images Book Review: Making Games for the Atari 2600 How to make scrolling possible on the Interton VC4000. Programming the Signetics 2650A One Jump’n’Run rule them…
Would you buy new a computer for US$ 24,000 nowadays? Unless you are loaded, the answer is probably “no”. That is what happened with the Apple Lisa when it was released in 1983 for US$ 10,000. Although it had very cool technology with its Graphic User Interface and the use of a mouse to interact with the computer, only about…
Limbo is a side-scroller game released by Playdead Studio in 2010. The game took the game industry by surprise showing fabulous black & white graphics, clever puzzles, and terrific animation. It was awarded many times by several different game developer associations and now is available for almost all modern game platforms you can think of. But the big news for…
A lot of people out there that celebrates Christmas like to have their own traditions that are repeated religiously every year. Blake Patterson from Byte Cellar has also jumped on the tradition rituals bandwagon and once more published a post showing off retro Christmas demos. The 2017 demo collection consists of 16 demos across 13 platforms, including the CoCo, ZX…
Terrible news for the ZX Spectrum community. The creator of the ZX-Modules has announced that he will leave the retro scene and with him the ZX-Modules webpage and Facebook page. ZX-Modules is a comprehensive set of tools and utilities for ZX Spectrum cross-development. The set includes ZX-Paintbrush, ZX-Blockeditor, ZX-Preview, and ZX-Assembler among other indispensable tools that made a lot of people’s…
MSXPad is an IDE that let you program for the MSX using the Pascal language, which can be a nice way to get started on the MSX world for those who are not versed in assembler or C. The biggest problem to start using the tool is that the current official version doesn’t work on Windows 8 or 10. Thankfully,…
Slime, a game created by Mr. NOP and released last year for the Commodore 64 (reported here), got a new version just in time for the World of Commodore, which happened last weekend in Toronto, Canada. There are the additional features added to the game: A loading picture Bug fixed the level display Bonus life at 10,000 points Starts in single…
