Category: Retro Computing History
Retroinvaders website has made available the Commodore 64 Calendar 2016. Created by Josepzin from Retroinvaders using the theme “Prizes Commodore manía 2014/15”. Each month of the year gets an illustration from a release competing in the compo. There are versions for several languages, including Spanish, German, Portuguese and English. All area available on CSDb as PDF files, ready to be printed….
If you want to know a bit more about the Floppy Drive 2031, or maybe you even have one not working seating around, Nightfall Crew shows in this article the work to restore such unit. The article doesn’t intend to be a comprehensive walkthrough but it brings some details about that unit, and the changes made to get it back…
S.A.M – Software Automatic Mouth is a a software-based voice synthesizer for the Apple II. According to A2Heaven, SAM is designed to be easy to use, and with a couple of simple program statements, the user can add speech to your BASIC or machine language programs. You can see by yourself how it sounds like watching the video demo below. [youtube…
It was announced that MacGUI website will fade out and eventually close over the next few months. “Dog Cow” explained that last year he started to downsize his collection giving away tons of Mac related materials to whoever was willing to pay for postage. Now, the website, which has already been downsized as well will eventually close down. “Dog Cow” wants…
Imagine Google Streets inside a museum. This is exactly what this virtual tour is at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, WA. Made by Tosolini Productions, the virtual tour really takes you to any place inside the museum. You can walk, look around, check the computers, etc. The only thing better than this would be to visit the museum in…
The new adventure game for the Commodore 64, Heroes & Cowards, released last August for the Commodore 64 just got a modern packaging allowing seamless installation on Windows and Mac. Starting from USD5.99, different editions are available at itch.io. They are bundled with an emulator for use on Windows or Mac systems, but the games can also be played directly on…
Amiga Meditations’ Stuart Williams tells us the story of the Amiga 1500. Yes, that is not a typo, it is not Amiga 500 or 1000 or 1200, it is the Amiga 1500, sold exclusively by Commodore UK. But also he offers interesting details about another A1500 available at that time, which was, in essence, an upgrade kit for the A500….
Commodore Free #89 took some time to be released, but issue 90 is already out making up for the previous delay ;) As usual, the magazine is full of news about C64, Amiga, Plus/4, etc. and also featured articles like “Happy Programming on the c=16/+4” and “Decompiler Technologies”. As for game reviews, you will be able to read about SHIFTED for…
Cloanto has released a new version of Amiga Forever, its emulation software package for the Amiga. It also has released the C64 Forever 2016. Amiga Forever is the official Amiga emulator, preservation and support package brought to you by Cloanto, Amiga developers since 1986. “After almost two years of hard teamwork since the 2014 versions were released, it may seem like the…
Game development competitions are always fun to participate if you are a developer, and always fun to follow if you are a gamer looking for modern games for your beloved platform. Earlier this year we saw great games coming out of ABBUC’s Compo for Atari 8-bits and the CPCRetroDev compo that brought to us many more amazing games for the Amstrad…
