Category: Retro Computing History
MSXdev’17 just got its second contestant, Slime Center by the group N.I. and based on our quick glance at the game, the competition just got harder! It consists of an action game where you have to help the hero to find it is way out from the place where you are trapped. Several items can help you achieve the goal…
The March issue of MagPI magazine brings one of our favorite subjects: retro gaming! There were articles in the past talking about building a retro gaming machine using a Raspberry PI, thanks to the RetroPie project, but this time around the magazine brings detailed instructions about how to build a portable gaming machine for you retro needs on the go! The…
Juiced.GS subscribers should start receiving the new issue of Juiced.GS soon. The issue 1, volume 22 brings lots of interesting articles, as state the official announcement: This issue features a tutorial for telnetting to bulletin board systems from your Apple II; reviews of the AP40 wireless Bluetooth game controller and the Floppy Emu storage device; an interview with Joe Santulli,…
The episode #70 of FloppyDays has been published featuring an interview with Michael Tomczyk where he tells everything about the development of the VIC-20. Michael was with Commodore for some time, was an assistant to none other than Jack Tramiel, and was the leader of the team known as the Vic Commando Team. You can download FloppyDays following the link below or stream…
If you, like me, have a pile of Commodore disk drives that don’t work, this video might be useful. Published by Jan Beta channel on YouTube, the video shows the steps to fix a 1541 disk unit. The drive didn’t spin up if you turned it on and didn’t react at all to commands from the computer. LEDs were working. Spindle…
Gamasutra website has published an interview with John Romero about TEd, a tile editor that was used to build many games from the past (including Wolfstein,Commander Keen, etc). The article is the first of a series that will try to cover iconic game development tools. In recent years, retrospectives of classic games have been well received at GDC, but there have…
The Retrogaming Party happened last January 13 and 14 in Portugal. Result of a partnership between Retromania website and ISPGaya, the event was divided in two days to serve two different publics. One day was dedicated to the ISPGaya students, who had the opportunity to get in contact with the most important and iconic machines from the 80s and 90s. The second…
Hackaday has always being a “friend” of retro-computing with many articles pointing to cool projects related to the computers of the golden age! Today, they are showing off a portable Apple IIe created by Jorj Bauer, which include a tiny keyboard, a TTF screen, SD card support, all powered by the microcontroller development board Teensy 3.6 equipped with an 180 MHz ARM…
Hackaday has an interesting write-up today about the 1957 machine that was built to pick winning lottery numbers for the British National Savings and Investments “Premium Bonds” program. Short for Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment, it was built to provide truly random numbers for the lottery picks and included an all-important hardware entropy source. Random noise in the current output…
Amicast is a podcast about the Amiga, covering everything about the platform, past and present! Today’s show is all about the future of AmigaOS. Guest star is Trevor Dickinson! This is hot stuff direct from the Amiga Party in Ireland. The episode has two parts: first is the interview with Trevor, second is recorded audio from Trevor’s speech at Amiga Ireland MeetUp…
