Category: Retro Computing History
WMSX is a browser-based emulator released by Paulo Peccin (great name, btw!) made with HTML5/Javascript, not requiring any plugins. It lets you load any disk image, support keyboard and controllers and also full screen mode. New in version 0.95: Selectable 60/50 Hz native V-Sync Complete line accuracy Screen mode splits now supported 7 Debug modes 3 Sprite modes Link: WMSX
Atariage user Ramses let us know about this video of the Atari programmers panel from the Portland Expo 2015. It includes Bob Smith, Tod Frye, Rob Zdybel, and Howard Scott Warshaw. Anyone interested in retro game development should watch it. Really interesting. [youtube YLoJ5jcccPU nolink] On a side note, the video and sound are perfect, which is very rare in retro…
We that lived the times where we would fistfight our friends in defence of our favourite computer brand/model, know how fierce and endless these ruses can last. How about settle it in a friendly trump card game? If you wonder how, I can tell you that it is going to be possible really soon. There is an already-funded campaign running…
Randy Kindig has just published the episode 49 of Floppy Days, covering the Texas TI-99. The episode contains also an interview Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills For the history segment, I was lucky enough to find a couple of people who have an incredible history with the TI-99, Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills. Jim has an extensive, multilingual library of…
Spanish homebrew developers The Mojon Twins are back with yet another free release – this time a port of a ZX Spectrum game from 2005 known as Moggy. Your goal in each screen is getting each one of your pink friends, avoiding touching the green bushes. You can download the game following the link below. Download: Mojo Twins Source: RetroCollect
ABBUC 2015 software development contest is over, and now you can download Toy’Swap, a match-gems type of game developed for the Atari 8-bit. The developer explains to Atariteca that even relying on modern cross-compilers and emulators for the development, the game took him about 99 sessions with some of them ranging from 2 to 5 hours of development to be…
Engadget has published an extensive article about the Nintendo Playstation, which first appeared back in July. A lot of people were skeptical about the Frankenstein machine equipped with CD-ROM and SNES cartridge slot. Could it be real? Well, it is! “The “Nintendo PlayStation” is now the stuff of gaming legend, with reportedly only about 200 prototypes ever produced. But, as…
Star Raiders is one of the most pleased games released for the Atari 8-bit machines. Created by Doug Neubauer, it was released in cartridge form by Atari in 1979. It was big news last week (yeah, I know, I am late) that Kevin Savetz had received the full source code listing of Star Raiders, and he was about to scan…
Antic podcast is internationally known for its amazing interviews with who made history in the microcomputer industry. On the last episode, Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold has launched a contest that will run for all month of November. Whoever transcribes the most ANTIC interviews from 11/1/15 to 11/30/15 will win a Defender cartridge for the Atari 400/800/XL/XE computers…
A2heaven is a webstore selling modern hardware for the Apple II line of computers, include the IIe and IIc, including the Apple IIC VGA NTSC, allowing to connect VGA monitor to your IIc, and the SDFloppy II, and Disk II emulator that uses SD Card as storage media. Check it out the new store following the link below. Link: a2Heaven
