Category: Retro Computing History
Eight Bit Magazine is a full colour, A5 size, 68 page printed magazine full of great articles written by people with a wealth of knowledge and passion for those computers. Expect programming, technical and gaming articles for the Apple II, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Sinclair Spectrum, Atari 8-bit and more! Eight Bit Magazine celebrates early eight bit microcomputers from the…
A new episode of Floppy Days Podcast is now available. In this episode; New Acquisitions NADSBox – http://www.club100.org/catalog.html “Now the Chips Are Down: The BBC Micro (Platform Studies)” Hardcover by Alison Gazzard – http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262034034/?tag=flodaypod-20 Compute’s Gazette – https://archive.org/details/compute-gazette “33 challenging computer games for TRS-80/Apple/PET Paperback” by David Chance – https://www.amazon.com/challenging-computer-games-TRS-80-Apple/dp/0830612750 “Atari Playground” by Fred D’Ignazio – https://www.amazon.com/Atari-playground-Fred-DIgnazio/dp/0810457709 Fred D’Ignazio Interview…
Cask Jumper is a game created by tmy10100 from Vic-20 Denial Forums. He wrote the game together with a friend over 30 years ago! The game involves jumping over casks with a motorbike. You must be careful not to drive too fast and also not too slow, if you want to land exactly on the ramp without crashing. You have 5…
Peter Leigh has released a 2-video special about the Amstrad CPC. The 1-hour long video is available on Nostalgia Nerd YouTube channel and tells a detailed story of the origins of Amstrad and how the iconic Amstrad CPC came to be. If you are from one of the countries where Amstrad sold the CPC, it is a great opportunity to revive the…
There is never too many magazines around, and we are happy to see Call A.P.P.L.E is also contributing to the community with a magazine with excellent content. The 36-pages Jan/Feb issue is available to all A.P.P.L.E (Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange) members with the following content: – Akalabeth: The Beginning of a Legacy – Steve Jobs: The Quiet Philanthropist – GBBS Pro:…
Introduction Back in the 80’s, the Brazilian government restricted the importation of microcomputers to help the local industry to develop. That was a great opportunity for those companies to create clones of the most important computers of the time: Sinclair ZX-81, TRS-80, Apple and later on, IBM PC. One of the biggest microcomputer manufacturers at the time was Prologica Computadores. The…
Victor Trucco, one of the masterminds behind the Spectrum Next posted today on Next Facebook group a big update about the machine development, including detailed specifications, capabilities and more. Below, the full announcement written by Victor: “Big update to bring the many things that have changed on the Next since the original announcement. We’ve reviewed here all the features that…
The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…
The FloppyDays podcast is already well-known to dig deep into the history of many computers from the late 70s and early 80s. Episodes from the past already covered the TRS-80, the TI-88, HP-85 and many others. FloppyDays always bring the experts in the subject to participate as co-hosts or to give interviews, which enriches the content making the podcast a must…
Situated an hour from the city of Toronto, and two hours from the Detroit/Windsor border lays a very unique museum designated to the history of personal computing. The Personal Computer Museum located at 13 Alma St, Brantford, Ontario Canada is home to an interactive display of over 50 functioning computers, with over 1000 total in storage, over 25,000 pieces of…
