Category: Retro Computing History
FREEZE64 is an A5 Commodore 64 Paper Fanzine created by Vinny Mainolfi who runs the websites C64Endings and Hackersoft. Issue 8 is now available to purchase! FREEZE64 is a Retro Gamers dream and is packed full with C64 Gaming News, Game Cheats and interesting information about coding on your Commodore 64! In this edition: Maze of the Mummy, Raffox, Game…
Presenting a Dartmouth Data-Sharing System simulator that implements the original BASIC that debuted in 1964.
The Internet Archive has been allowing everybody to enjoy directly in their browser window many applications and games for the Apple II, MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and some consoles like the Atari. Today, the Archive has announced the availability of Software Library: Macintosh, a collection of applications and games running on the early Macintosh models, like that 128K, 512K, Plus, etc. As expected,…
Nintendo is famous for being behind on shipments of its most successful products, like the original Wii and more recently, the NES Classic. To get one NES Classic for the listed price at your local retailer, you would need to be very lucky or stay in lines for hours before the doors were open. An almost impossible task for most of…
This year, Canada is celebrating 150 years and releasing a commemorative $10 bill is part of the activities planned for this year. And this is vintage/retro how? You might be asking… The retro-gaming bit is that the Bank of Canada website showing off a beautiful 360 degrees rendered bill (which you can flip around) hides an easter egg that can be…
Well I’m sure you have all been watching and supporting the “The Commodore Story – Changing the world 8-bits at a time” Kickstarter by WavemStudios. As of writing the goal has been smashed reaching a whopping £37,926 pledged of the £17,500 goal! There is still time to get involved, with 8 more days to make that final push to the 40K mark….
ZX Spectrum Next is probably the most anticipated modern take of a retro computer to date. The first ZX Vega had a huge impact, but the fact it was a gaming machine only, it didn’t attract the average retro enthusiast that wanted to do more than simply play games. The last word is that the ZX Spectrum Next campaign is under…
LWTOOLS is a set of cross-development tools for the Motorola 6809 and Hitachi 6309 microprocessors. It supports assembling to raw binaries, CoCo LOADM binaries, and a proprietary object file format for later linking. It also supports macros and file inclusion among other things. The version 4.14 has been released bringing the following changes, including explanations from the author: The “forwardrefmax”…
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. This week the guys secured an interview with the famous Psycho of Budbrain. Budbrain is the…
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 Ben Daglish, Bil Herd, Allister Brimble and David Pleasance. Last week the guys secured an interview with the great Ben Heck. For the small amount of you that…
