Kevin, Brad and Randy have finally managed to take a break from interviewing everyone who ever saw an Atari in the store, and released a rare non-interview podcast. Bill Kendrick co-hosts as the Atarians discuss Atari Party, Kansas Fest, the 1200xl and whatever else they can find on archive.org. Link: libsyn Subscribe: iTunes
The CGRS MICROTECH PEDISK II was an early floppy disk system for the Commodore PET/CBM computer. The PEDISK did not use the IEEE bus like the Commodore disk drives, but instead used a standard floppy disk controller chip connected to the inside of the PET/CBM machine. It could support both 5.25″ and 8″ standard floppy mechanisms as configured from the…
Stefan Egger (Computer Collection Vienna) has purchased an Amiga 3400, a computer that later became the Amiga 4000. It’s a functional unit and there are some differences from the later series production. Some missing parts (upper housing part, HDD holder bracket for the floppy drive, Joyport sheet etc.) are soon to complete the unit. The bracket for the floppy drive is not identical to…
If you love the Lotus games on Amiga, then Amiga Racer by Michael St Neitzel should be the next Racing game you should check out! Requirements are: PowerPC (PPC) CPU 1 GHz, ATI graphics card, keyboard, joystick, sound card and Amiga OS 4.1 FE. Latest Version is 3.62 and you can download it now over at OS4Depot. Also available on the Official Website for the…
Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 3. (beta 2 must of been released fast as we didn’t even notice!) WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to…
Courtesy of John R. Hogerhuis on the m100 list, you now have a new way to get your Tandy 100 fix: Right in your web browser! The inspiration was that I wanted to have a Model 100 emulator for my iPhone. A native emulator written in Objective C would be best, but Apple doesn’t allow you to distribute emulators in…
Ersh over at World of Spectrum Forums has released a new graphical text adventure game for the ZX Spectrum. The game was originally planned to be created on the Commodore 64, ten years ago! The game is coded from scratch in assembly. The code, puzzles, story and additional pictures took Ersh just over a month to put together. Below is the game’s description…
Way back in 1992, Ast_A_Moore over at World of Spectrum Forums wrote a shoot-em-up called A Yankee in Iraq. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. He decided to revive the game and have another look over it. The only thing he was able to find was the BASIC file; the rest of the assets, the loading screen, music, and UDG were…
……..in which we talk about what kind of interviews we have done and recorded that are available in our youtube Gamescom 2016 Playlist! Jon is a leading figure in the action soccer genre and he is the one known for the action soccer hits Sensible Soccer and Microprose soccer as well! In this episode he talks about the future of…
It appears that the much followed “Celebration” Apple I computer has finally been sold for a cool $815,000 US dollars. I guess it didn’t hit their stated value of $1M, but it’s still a heck of a lot of dough. I actually watched the bids hit $1.2M, but apparently there was a bid pulled at the last minute. I’d now…
