Category: Retro Computing History
There is a new website created by Marcus ‘ALB42’ Sackrow where you can create programs using Free-Pascal and compile them directly in the browser window. After the program is compiled, you can download the source and also executable. Seem to me that this browser-based IDE is meant to be used in your Amiga OS as it doesn’t create a disk image…
There is a new kid on the block (Sinclair Neighborhood!) A new printed magazine about everything ZX Spectrum has been announced, targeting the Portuguese-speakers around the World. Espectro is being created by a joint-venture between Brazilian and Portuguese enthusiasts, including Ivan Barroso (who also publishes the gaming magazine Pushstart) and Marcus Vinicius Garrett Chiado, a seasoned author that published “1983: The…
If you are one of many that missed the Kickstarter campaign because you didn’t have the means, or simply because you were too afraid of investing that kind of money on a Kickstarter campaign now you have another option to put your hands on the hottest hardware of the season. Carlos Henrique Olifiers has announced over the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook…
The only upside of Radio Shack demise is the sales that happen to clear inventory. Following the store’s fire sales, the company has opened its vaults and is auctioning historical equipment and memorabilia through UBid Estate and Auctions. There are plenty of catalogs, paintings, posters, and of course retro computers. A quick glance at the list filtering by TRS-80 shows a…
In Lumberjack Reloaded you are eh….. a lumberjack that has the task to cut the trees while avoiding to branches that are coming in your direction. The premise is simple but the video below shows a clever game with cute graphics and catchy soundtrack. The game is set to be released in July but you can pre-order it now for…
Gamasutra website has released from its Vault a presentation from this years’ Game Development Conference (GDC) with nothing less than Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley’s postmortem of Civilization. Very common in the game industry (and many others as well), the postmortem is an evaluation of a certain game development process, analyzing what went right and what went wrong, how it should’ve…
It is not always from the freshest news that you find something interesting. I’ve just stumbled today on this post on Kotaku’s website from 2014 talking about some radio shows from the 80’s that would provide downloadable content to the listeners. The principle was simple. If you can “play” a software from your cassette and the computer loads it, why not sending…
The National Museum of Computing is a remarkable institution that keeps an even more remarkable collection of computers, from mainframes to early desktops. The only “problem” is that they are located in the UK, which is too far from Canada, making harder for me to visit it anytime soon. This “problem” was minimized today, with the release of a 3D tour…
First of all, if you are wondering about what is a game jam, “it is a gathering of people for the purpose of planning, designing, and creating one or more games within a short span of time…”. With that out of the way, today a ZX Spectrum game jam has started as we announced before. During the next 13 days,…
Blake Patterson has published a blog post and a demo video about a new device that a lot of people in our retro community have been talking about: the Wifi232, an inexpensive device that lets you BBS the way it was meant to be done, on hardware from the golden age of the Bulletin Board System. Since the device connects…
