Category: Retro Computing History
Retrospekt website has published an interview with John Kavanagh, the guy behind the Kickstarter campaign that aim to bring a magazine all about 8-bit machines. The article starts with “John Kavanagh is no stranger when it comes to online magazine publishing. Having produced CPC Oxygen magazine for the Amstrad community, he has a strong passion for vintage computers, particularly those…
Retro Innovations has made available the UltiMem VIC-20 Memory Expansion Cartridge that adds more than 8MB of FLASH ROM storage and 1MB of RAM! Here are the specs: 8 (eight) megabytes of VIC-20 programmable FLASH ROM storage. 1 (one) megabyte of yummy RAM storage. A myriad of configuration options, to suit your tastes You want ROM at $2000 and RAM at…
Since we have very angry visitors (I am looking at you Commodore community), we don’t do any prank or fake article for April 1st in respect to them. That don’t prevent us from posting something about someone else’s jokes containing a note stating that it is an April fool’s joke, of course. This one came from Apple II Juiced.GS…
RGCD C64 Cartridge Development Competition 2015 has reached the first deadline and are not accepting more entries. With 11 entries and 9 brand new games, this year’s competition is a great success. These are the 11 games: Alienator (Georg Rottensteiner) Blap N Bash Revisited (Richard Bayliss) Bug Hunt (Eric Hilaire) Icicle Race (John Christian Lønningdal) Pickle’s Pod Patrol (Steve Ody) Platman (Andrea…
ZX Dev’15 has finished its first phase where then game entries are submitted. The compo has received 15 games that you can now download, play and vote! With that many games, we can say the compo response was more than excellent and now to be completely successful, it needs your help to choose the best games. The entries are: Complica DX…
You can now download the full version of the game ‘Gravity Power’ directly from Amiga Future website. The game was in the cover disk of the magazine Amiga Power (1995 June issue 50) . The 2D shooter game was published by Bits Productions in 1995 as a revision of his precursor Gravity Force II. Link: Amiga Future
Blake Patterson has published on his blog “The Byte Cellar” an interview he made with the members of a group responsible for the first demo for the Apple Lisa. The interview happened via IRC channel back in 2011, and he now decided to take it from his archive and make it public. Even being four years old, it is fascinating…
This issue features a behind-the-scenes look by Ian Johnson at his work bringing Japanese language support to the Apple IIGS; an interview with Jimmy Maher of The Digital Antiquarian; David Schmenk’s introductory tutorial for programming in PLASMA; a review of Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs film; a reflection on lessons learned using the Apple II in a modern high-school classroom; and…
The 8-bit guy YouTube channel turned on the reference of easy to understand explanations about old tech. Few months back his video entitle “How oldschool graphics worked Part 1″ was watched by more than 2 million times after it reached most of the major tech news outlets. This new release talks about the CGA graphics standard seen on many PC compatibles computer…
‘Project SIDFX’ is a new hardware expansion for any C64, SX-64, and C128 allowing them to use 1 or 2 SIDs chips, even of different models! Currently accepting pre-orders, the new board looks very powerful allowing the user to switch between SID chips while playing the tune.For now, this can be achieved via a hardware switch, but the board is prepared…
