Glen Hewlett strikes again with a great article about Assembly programming for the 6809. This time around, he posted the first part of an article showing techniques that will help speed up your code. Every aspiring assembly coder must know already that every cycle counts, and this article proves that to the letter. Glen promises that the next part will…
Amiga-News website has published more news about the Amiga trademark dispute that is happening in the US and Europe. It looks like many parties are trying to be the new “Amiga” trademark owner since its registration had expired a while ago. Known names like Cloanto and Hyperion are trying to get their hands on it, as well as some other parties….
For those into Amiga chiptunes and/or demo scene as a whole, this is a great video to watch. Computer game music legend Chris Hülsbeck interviewed by demo scene veteran Pex Mahoney Tufvesson at the demo scene event Datastorm in Gothenburg, Sweden in September 2017. Chris, who is behind projects like Turrican, Giana Sisters, Tunnel B1, Extreme Assault, War of the…
Due to demand, Nintendo has announced that the elusive NES Classic will be available again in 2018. There are no details about when that will happen, but get that alarm clock and lawn chair ready so you can stand in the cold waiting for the store to open! (And see the NES is sold out all over again!!!!) Source: Engadget
Kim Justice has published a video on his YouTube channel talking about the ZX Spectrum homebrew scene. The video covers the basics showing briefly the tools that an inspiring ZX Spectrum developer can use, and finally talks about the 5 best Speccy homebrew games: Ooze, Castlevania – Spectral Interlude, Circuitry, Roboprobe, and Deep Blue. [vsw id=”rNWIJ4Dz3uo” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]
Jeremy Rand has announced the release of a build environment for the Apple IIgs that will please many MacOS users out there! The build pipeline for XCode (MacOS “native” development tool) was first demonstrated at this year’s Kansasfest, and after a few months of cleaning and tweaking was finally released on Github. Taken from Github’s README, the list of features…
Glen Hewlett is really standing out as a knowledgeable authority about Color Computer programming and assembler language in general. He is the author of the amazing port of PACMAN for the Color Computer 3 (which was featured on Hackaday yesterday), and also Space Invaders. On this new article, Glen talks about compiled sprites and how they are more efficient and…
SID2SID & stereo SID (dual SID) Mod I’ve had a thing for the Commodore 64 SID chip ever since i’ve known about it and despite only briefly knowing the C64 breadbin/breadbox in childhood from the kid down the street. I’ve wanted to get that particular one in recent times and I do have a preference to the original 6581 SID…
A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project: Highlights of this release include: Add DivMMC emulation Add ZXMMC emulation Add support for MLT format screenshots Binaries and the source code can be found below. Link: Sourceforge
Tandy Assembly is the first large scale gathering of Tandy Radio Shack computer enthusiasts since the 1980s and it will take place in Chillicothe, OH on October 7th and 8th 2017. Although the TRS CoCo has its own show (CoCoFest), Tandy Assembly is the first dedicated to any computer ever made by Tandy Radio Shack, which would include from TRS-80…
