Category: Retro Computing History
Update from 01/05: Hyperion Entertainement releases official statement. Generation Amiga has reported today a tweet from Hacker Fantastic saying that the Amiga OS source has been leaked, including both Kickstart and Workbench. Looking at the @hackerfantastic’s tweet, there is another user with the handle @TheWack0lian that offers a link to download the OS in a 130MB tar file which…
The third part of The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 game has been published on RetroGamesCollector website. This time, the author talks about Sprite Multiplexing, a technique that allows having more than 8 sprites on screen at a time. There is also a trailer showing the first two areas of the game. [youtube u20xV4Y38X4 nolink] Link: RetroGamesCollector
The Ultimate Amiga Talk – Amiga Hardware Design And Programming was presented at 2015 Chaos Communication Congress – Gated Communities (#32C3) in Hamburg. The hour-long video shows the speaker, Bernard R. Fischer going deep in Amiga 500 hardware description as well as programming information. It is a very technical video but a must-see for everyone interested on Amiga programming. [youtube 3Ho12VYv-iw nolink] For…
For any retro computer collector the idea of having 472 different models is like swimming on a pool of coins like Scrooge McDuck. There is one fellow collector from Czech Republic that instead of building his own private pool of money decided to open a museum, specifically an Apple museum. Housed in three buildings in Prague’s old town, the museum has…
“Important people who shaped the TI 99/4A World” blog on Atariage is talking about Scott Adams, the genius behind many Text adventure games was brought up in Miami Florida. In 1975 he wrote a computer game on a computer that his brother Richard built a year before, making him the first person on earth to write a computer game on a home…
WHDLoad is a popular AmigaOS Harddisk-Install package that’s been around for many many years as a commercial product. It has been made the life of Amiga users way easier to install and play their favorite games. Starting now on version 18.2, WHLoad is completely free, making the WinUAE and FS-UAW Christmas day even better. Source: WHDLoad
I’ve been enjoying reading the Digital Antiquarian blog articles for a while. They are aways very well written and informative about the history of video game. Jimmy Maher Jimmy Maher announced that he is releasing for free a set of eBooks from a compilation of his old articles. There are currently 8 ebooks available in epub or mobi (Kindle) formats. All…
It has been published today the Commodore 64 the Disk Magazine Attitude issue 16, reminds us how things were before the Internet and fancy websites (like ours!). The magazine mostly covers the C64 Demo Scene, with news from the groups and what happened in 2015. The nicest thing about the magazine is how well it is produced and the quality…
Mr Atari has given to all of us an amazing Xmas present, ‘Lost in Space’ a new game for the Atari 8-bit computers. The game guide starts with “You are a space-captain racing against rivaling lunar-landers. Your goal is to land and rendezvous 15 times. Can you beat the competition or set an unbeatable mission-time?” The game contains five challenging…
The year of 2015 was a great year for the vintage computing magazine with several new magazines being published and one of my favourites has just released a new issue. The 3rd issue of Komoda & Amiga Plus Magazine is now available in PDF, both in English and Polish covering most of Commodore’s computers, including modern Amiga OS. Besides the…
