Category: Retro Computing History
Howard Scott Warshaw, the veteran programmer, best known in the game industry for his pioneering work at Atari on titles like Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, spoke at the last GDC about his work designing and coding Yars’ Revenge, widely believed to be one of the best Atari 2600 games ever made. Recently his name was…
Javi Lavandeira is already known by us with his series of articles about MSX development. Today he published on his blog an great article about his visit to ‘Sony Design: MAKING MODERN’ exhibition about the design of Sony products, happening in Ginza, Japan. There, according to Lavandeira (which we agree 110%), they have on display one of the coolest-looking MSX…
The Guardian website has published today a new article about the ZX Spectrum Vega entitle “ZX Spectrum beeps again as nostalgia for 80s tech takes hold”. It states that the ZX Spectrum Vega will arrive later this month to the hands of the backers of the project first. It also mentions that company behind the comeback, Retro Computers, chaired by…
[youtube WnVeB5UX8LY nolink] Chris Torrence has published the Assembly Lines video podcast #11 which shows how to remove the soldered RAM chips in an Apple //c and replace with socketed RAM. Source: A2Central
Apple2Scans has secured the privilege to host the PDF scans of the collection of newsletters from the Rhein-Neckar Apple Users Group (RNAUG), which belongs to Jesse Blue of legendary Apple IIGS demo group Ninjaforce. The first issue is already available, and although the quality is not one of the bests since the scan is from a photocopy, it is still…
We’ve talked to Detlef Hastik, from M.E.G.A and he has provided us further details about the MEGA65. First he confirmed that, even being all open source, they will make available a fully assembled version for purchase. Planned to be ready around March next year, there is no price set yet, but he says that it will be the cheapest possible,…
We’ve been posting news about Paul Gardner-Stephen’s project on Commodore is Awesome very often, and today we are pleased to see that his efforts weren’t in vain. Today, he presented, in partnership with the people behind the Museum of Electronic Games & Art a new 8-bit computer – the MEGA65 Retro Computer. Strongly based on the never-released Commodore 65, the…
The UK’s favourite Arcade, Indie & Retro video gaming expo comes to the Winter Gardens, Margate from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd August 2015. Fans of gaming are in for a real treat! PLAY is brought to you by the organisers of Play Expo and video gaming suppliers to GEEK, so will be jam packed with hundreds of games, consoles, arcades,…
VCF East is now part of the history that it tries to tell. The last event took place last weekend, and it seems whoever was able to attend had a blast! If you, like myself, couldn’t be there, you can have a glimpse of the event visiting the link below, containing some nice photos of the event. Link: VCF East…
Retro Computing Roundtable Episode 98 is out. One of the things we like to do with old computers is program them. With modern computers, running editors and emulators, we can do some things a lot easier than we could when dealing directly with the classic machines. Do you have any favorite tools and tips for doing this sort of thing?…
