Hot on the heals of the CFFA3000 resuming production, Big Mess O’ Wires has posted an article unveiling the “Yellowstone” disk controller. The Yellowstone is an FPGA-based disk controller for the Apple II, capable of emulating vintage controllers that have become difficult and/or expensive to obtain. In particular, Yellowstone was designed to clone the “LIRON” controller, also known as the…
The ZX-Dev Conversions competition has brought us some fantastic releases for the ZX Spectrum these last few days, and here is another interesting release coded by Igor Errazkin (with contributions by thEp0pE). The game is called “Dr Who Surrender Time”, which is an isometric adventure based on the Dr Who franchise, and was developed using 3D game maker. This time Davros…
Welcome to part 3 of a multi-part series on simple things you can do to speed up Microsoft BASIC on the Radio Shack Color Computer. These tips may be applicable to other systems with Microsoft (or other) BASICs. See also: Introduction, part 1 and part 2. Part 3 – Variables Previously, we took a look at FOR/NEXT and numbers, and…
Trevor Storey made a short and sweet tweet today, to let us know that the eagerly awaited Organism for the Commodore 64 is now finished and release will be very soon! C64 Fanboys (and girls), Check out the video below! [vsw id=”B7sZI04RXtM” source=”youtube” width=”640″ height=”360″ autoplay=”no”]Website: smilastorey.wixsite.com/trevor-storey Twitter: @smila007
Joshua Reichard emailed us today about a new game he coded with his 12 year old daughter. The game is called Stranger Things, and is based on the hit American science fiction-horror web television series you all know and love! The project was created on old hardware running FreeDOS and Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.5. The game game consists of just under…
If you, like me, just bought an Amiga 500 with the A501 memory expansion, you are probably very excited and ready to start playing with it for hours and hours. The original memory expansion is installed underneath the computer, accessible by the trapdoor you will see below: The problem is, that the expansion board, besides the 512K expansion has also…
R&D Automation LLC has announced that a fifth run of the legendary CFFA3000 mass storage adapter for Apple II systems is now underway. Approximately 1000 units will be assembled, with pre-orders expected to open some time in mid-to-late February. The CFFA3000 is Compact-Flash or USB-based mass storage adapter for Apple ][+, Apple //e, and Apple //gs systems which provides floppy…
Ben Johnson from The Great Setup Website, contacted us via email to let us know that we have been included in the Top 75 Retro Gaming Blogs of 2018! We just about made it into the top 20 category, landing at number 19, which we thought was pretty good going! It’s always nice to know that we are doing a…
Gimmick! Yumetaro Odyssey is a ZX Spectrum game that greenwebsevilla has been working on for the ZX-DEV Conversions Compo since September 2017. Today we bring you some exciting News that the game has finally been released! Gimmick! Yumetaro Odyssey is based on the Famicom/NES game “Gimmick” published by Sunsoft. The game is a side-on platformer with many levels connected to one main…
The guys over at C64.com have recently interviewed Mihaly Kenczler. Mihaly worked on Express Raider and Impossible Mission II. You can read the interview here. Website: C64.com
