I think everyone reading this has good memories going to newsstands or the magazine section of a computer store and browse the many computer magazines available (when they weren’t wrapped in plastic bags!). Atari owners would look for the Antics and ANALOGs, Commodore fans for Compute Gazette, Your Commodore, and so on! There were also the 300-page multiplatform magazines like…
RGCD has a new blog post talking about Dusan Milivojevic’s Moonspire II project. In order to release a preview of the game on CSDb, Dusan had disabled all incomplete levels but, not surprisingly, cracked versions of the game were released on the same website shortly after, exposing the half-baked/broken levels. This fact almost made Dusan give up and trash the…
RetroShop has been secretly working on an official case for MiSTer FPGA. The new case will allow enclosing the MiSTer board as well as the Terasic DE10-nano. The case is made of FR4 (a composite material composed of woven fiberglass cloth with an epoxy resin binder that is flame resistant) and it was designed by Alexey Melnikov, who also designed…
Last Sunday, the Commodore 64/128 Programming Facebook group was carrying on its business as usual when received an invaluable gift from Michael Archer – the source code of many Commodore 64 games he programmed between 1986-1992. Michael is not referring to some game he made for his own pleasure and kept it hidden all these years. He’s talking about major…
(Apologies to Tom T. Hall; I couldn’t resist, and it leaves room for a followup.) Recently a gentleman asked me whether I have a CoCo 3 (more formally, a TRS-80 Color Computer 3). He was curious about whether I could run a couple of benchmarks both in Color BASIC and in BASIC09. I do have a CoCo 3, but I…
Ricardo Quesada has launched an interesting product: The Unijoysticle™ 2, an adapter that allows the use of modern game controllers, like the ones used on an Xbox One or PS4, on your retro computer It supports multiple controllers (for one or two players), and there is also a new “enhanced mode” that allows you to control the two joysticks from…
Hewson Consultants! Who doesn’t know them! (Later renamed to #21stCenturyEntertainment), we talk to Andrew Hewson who started all this and talk about the good old times, as well, as talking about what Rob Hewson does nowadays as an Indie videogame developer and publisher with Huey Games, releasing #HyperSentinel on the Switch before and currently working on Kickstarting their new game…
A space shooter that should need no introduction, Stardust takes AMIGArama on a journey to the stars in this true Amiga classic.
This is a quick “heads up”. Fusion Retro Books is giving away the PDF version of “The Story of the Commodore 64 in pixels”. I have the printed version and it is a gorgeous book, full of great images. If you didn’t buy it before, this is a great opportunity to get the digital version for free. To download it,…
