Category: Retro Computing History
Tanks Furry was developed by Pawel Nowak, Krzysztof Matys and Marcin Swiech for the Polish “RetroKomp GameDev Compo” where it got the second place. It is a tank shooter game where you have to hit the opponent’s tanks before they destroy your base. Main features: Hand made, old school pixel graphics Dedicated chip tune soundtrack and SFX Over 40 missions to play alone…
We have recently posted about the availability of the Vampire II accelerator board for the Amiga 600 and how it would make your old friend fly. Since then, a lot of buzz about the board happened on the Amiga Facebook groups Commodore Amiga and Amiga Friends. Two happy users have just received their boards and kindly wrote their Review/First Impressions. There…
KansasFest 2016, the 28th annual Apple II convention, is now open for registration. Users, programmers, hobbyists, and retrocomputing enthusiasts are invited to Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 19, through Sunday, July 24, for six days and five nights of sessions, demos, announcements, contests, and camaraderie. Mike Harvey, a business executive, salesperson, technologist, project manager, entrepreneur, programmer,…
John Calhoun has released the source code of the games he developed for the Macintosh (System 7) on Github. The games available are Glider, Glider PRO, Glypha III and Pararena. You can check Pararena 2 game play on the video below. The games were developed in C and the fact they are now available as source code, it is a great…
I really enjoy to watch It’s a Pixel Thing! with its light approach and full of interesting information while keeping a comfortable 10 minutes duration. This new episode the show will tell you the amazing story of British developer Imagine Software, its ascent to the stars and spectacular demise! [youtube 6KR0ZnylfLk nolink] Link: It’s a Pixel Thing Youtube Channel
Although it is the only Apple II podcast around, it deserves the “best” title. Open Apple brings every month a nice balance of technical, geek and normal retro computing discussions regarding the Apple II. This month’s episode, number 55, brings Henry Courbis, co-proprietor of Ultimate Micro, serial entrepreneur, and Open Source guy. Henry is boldly going where no hobbyist has gone before, by…
Commodore 64 has so many active demoscene groups active and releasing many demos throughout the year that is hard to keep up. Apple II enthusiasts, on the other hand, haven’t been so lucky.t least in terms of quantity. At least in terms of quantity! If we focus on quality, however, Apple II community has plenty to celebrate thanks to French…
Amiga Point of View (APoV) is a magazine published by the English Amiga Board forum. The last issue #4 was released in 2010. Almost 6 years have passed and it was announced that material for the issue 5 is required and an invitation was sent to all Amiga enthusiasts. “Now that blackcornflake has returned to the EAB, following his spiritual kung…
If you CRT is dying fast, and the options to connect your Amiga to a modern monitor are not easy to come around, you should take a look at the A520HD, the HDTV equivalent of the classic Commodore A520 TV modulator. Instead of encoding the Amiga video signal to a low-quality composite output it converts the RGB output to a high-quality…
Tynemouth Software has been developing an expansion cartridge for the Commodore VIC-20, adding RAM and ROM expansion selectable by dipswitches. There is a new update from the previous prototype, expanding it by adding 4 pins to each of the chips. The RAM is upgraded from a 62256 (32Kx8) to a 621024 (128Kx8), and the ROM from 27C512 (64Kx8) to 27C040…
