Category: Retro Computing History
This post is for those that like to get their hands dirty, opening the C64 and replacing dying parts. Sometimes the hardest part is to find and match modern components to the ones used to build a Commodore 64 back in the 80s. An article on Technologically Induced Coma blog has listed all the parts of a Rev C board and…
Obligement Amiga website has published an extensive interview with Christoph Gutjahr, one of the guys behind Aminet and Amiga-News.de, two of the most important websites about the Amiga. The interview is fascinating, showing the site’s importance, the work needed to keep them running and other interesting information. I found the interview even more interesting due to the fact I face a lot of the…
With all the buzz about Windows 10, its awesomeness and its problems you may be thinking to change to another OS. To help you with that task comes the Internet Archive! Today the non-profit organization has released almost a thousand Windows 3.1 programs that can run directly on your browser. The new collection includes games, utilities and business software – the jewel of the…
Jordan Mechner’s first game for the Apple II, Karateka was a huge success that paves the developer path to a successful career that includes the Prince of Persia franchise. After released for the Apple II, Kareteka was ported to many platforms including Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit and ST and many others. But never for the Amiga. After almost…
Usually, CSDb has way too many amazing graphic works being published every week, so I rather not post them here all the time. Our visitor friends can always browse the CSDb database to see them and be amazed by the level of the artists from C64 Demoscene. Today I am making an exception, though. As a big fan of the ‘Monkey Island’ franchise,…
For most of us, if not all of us, getting books from the 80s in PDF form is nothing really new, as we are used getting them from several different sources, including Internet Archive, Bombjack.org and many others. Nonetheless, it is newsworthy when a publishing house decided to post his 1980s catalog for free. The books are mostly targetted to…
If you follow our (almost) daily posts, you probably saw one about the 2016 BASIC Tenliner contest, that is happening right now until March 28th. After reading the appeal made on MSX Resource Center, calling for MSX programmers to participate in the contest, I decided to listen and give my contribution. The only caveat is that I never had done…
Reset Magazine issue #8 has just been released. The issue brings lots of articles, news and game reviews like of Daffy Duck, Heroes & Cowards, Knight ‘N’ Grail and much more. On the magazine website, you can also download the companion floppy containing Jump Ninja and Blap ‘n Bash, Nuclear Strike Force (they couldn’t stick a real disk on the PDF cover, sorry!)…
You will feel like you are wearing a hazmat suit while handling a dangerous virus in a lab. The Internet Archive just released The Malware Museum displaying a collection of viruses that were spread in de the 80s and 90s. If names like PYRAMID.COM, ITALIAN.COM and ZHU.COM make you tremble in terror, you will love to visit the Internet Archive collection and…
The Return of Heracles is an adventure game for the Commodore 64 (and other machines) written by Stuart Smith and published by Quality Software in 1983, where you can play as many heroes from Greek myth. Thirty-three years have passed and he Fairlight demoscene group has released a cracked version with a trainer and custom loader. You can download the game…
