Category: Retro Computing History
It was announced today on World of Spectrum that the ZX Dev’2015, a competition to write new Spectrum games. The compo is open to anyone from anywhere to participate, and according to the organizers, the main goal is to have some fun, learn, and why not, get a little reward for bringing new stuff for our Spectrums! Ivanzx, from WoS…
Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir, engineers that designed Amiga’s custom chipset “Lorraine”, will be attending on the next 25th & 26th of July the Amiga 30th anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Ron and Joe will be presenting for the first time their work on the Amiga Lorraine chip set, while working with Jay Miner, the…
My passion for computers started in 1983, when I briefly used one at school. It wasn’t until I was looking through a national newspaper, when I became drawn towards a Rumbelows advert for a Sinclair ZX81. I can remember begging my parents to get me one for my 13th birthday, it was affordable and looked to be a great start…
I saw this link on Google+ today and I was happily surprised about what I read. There is an Amiga 2000 running day and night for 30 years with the responsibility to control nineteen schools’ air conditioning system in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The system, written by a high school student back then, controls the start/stop of boilers, the start/stop of…
The Greek printed magazine “Retro Planet” has 52 coloured pages and is quarterly published. The eighth issue includes an interview with Pascal Papara. News Source: http://www.amiga-news.deWebsite: http://www.retroplanet.gr
[youtube g4gBXXWwi7w nolink] Are you ready to watch the new ‘Jurassic World’ movie? If not (or even if you are), how about warm up watching this clip inspired by 1993 original movie, reimagined as a 8-bit retro game? The clip was made by CineFix and published on its YouTube channel “8-bit Cinema”, and there we see Ian Malcolm, Alan Grant,…
Another bit of Atari productivity tools history has been released. The Inverse ATASCII episode 18 covers the APX Diskette Librarian, published by Atari Exchange Program. As usual, Inverse ATASCII website provides more screenshots and instructions to download/run the program. Link: Inverse ATASCII
A new article at trs-80.org about Microsoft Multiplan has been published. Wait! Don’t move to the next retro-sexy-game post! If you like retro computing story, the author did a really good job telling a short but complete story about the first spreadsheet made by Microsoft to compete with the blockbuster VisiCalc. The article focuses a bit on Tandy machines, but…
ReSeT is an Amstrad demoparty in Coutances, located in northwest France. Previously called Amstrad Expo, this party organized by Eliot / Benediction, is a real success each year since 2000. Through its convivial atmosphere, the ReSeT party is an event opened to all the computers enthusiasts no matter about their level and interest: code, electronic, graphics, music, games. You will…
Stories of Apple website has published the history of the Apple’s Jonathan computer. The idea was to design a simple hardware “backbone” carrying basic operations and I/O on which the user could add a series of modules, carrying hardware for running Apple II, Mac, UNIX and DOS software, plus other modules with disk drives or networking capabilities. Apple could even…
