This article was first published on 80 Micro magazine, issue August 1987 and reproduced here with the “blessing” of its author, Ron White. The article was revised and illustrated to offer an interesting perspective on how Tandy went from that point in time until today. The story was chosen as the best feature among all the CPM publications that year. Ron White…
Yes, you read it right! ‘The history of Commodore Amiga in Pixels’ is a staggering success, reaching and passing its goal on the first day. Now, it’s you that need it! :) Of course, the headline is a joke. You can still (and should) back the project and help it to get to the stretch goals and get the book for…
You might be a C64 enthusiast but maybe your think is and always has been playing games and your programming knowledge stops with LOAD “*”,8,1 which was enough to load your favorite software. Since it is never late to learn something new, how about a quick how to about “C64 programming in BASIC” ? This video, published by Nostalgia Nerd…
MSXDev’15 was promising with many strong contenders. However, on a not so happy note, José Andrés, one of the members of MSXDev’15 has announced that due to the lack of commitment of the judges, the contest is declared void. There is no winners thigs year. Jose’ let is out “..factors have caused great disappointment in me. I did not expect such a…
Mist is a hardware platform based on FPGA that can run many different platforms, including Commodore 64, Atari ST, Super NES, Colecovision, Amiga 500 and much more. The video published on PhilsComputerLab YouTube channel is an extensive tutorial/review about the Amiga 500 implementation running on the Mist platform. Phil shows how to setup and boot the device, as well as the…
The version 3.3.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE which mainly provides AmigaOS-4 adoption has been released. New features: New optional “indirect” UAE expansion trap system, fully compatible with OS4.x, virtual memory and some debugging programs PC Bridgeboard disk drive raw image support. (ipf, ext adf, …) Monochrome video out emulation, including A1000 color/mono video out software control (BPLCON0 COLOR bit)…
John W. Linville, from the CoCo Crew podcast, has published an article showing his design of an adapter that allows you to use SEGA Genesis (or Megadrive) with the CoCo3. Also, he mention that a dual-joypad version of this adapter was produced and built by his podcasting partner Neil Blanchard. You can watch a quick demo in the video below…
Fuse, a free and open source Speccy emulator for Windows, Linux and OSX, just got updated to version 1.2. Here is the announcement: “After a long gestation, and on behalf of the Fuse team I’d like to announce that a new version of Fuse, the 1.2.0 release of Free Unix Spectrum Emulator has been released at the SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/…
8Bitdo has released a bluetooth adapter that allows you to use modern controllers with the NES console, finally letting you ditch the cables. The adapter can be used with Wii remotes, PS4 controllers and, as expected, 8Bitdo NES bluetooth controller. The adapter costs $19.99, which is a pretty good value for what it offers. You can obtain more information following the…
If you are into electronics and have an MSX computer asking for new accessories, now you can build many of the hardware projects designed by the Russian Bear Service Crew. The RBSC has released the sources for several of their MSX hardware projects. This includes the schematics, board design files, Gerber files for board manufacturing, parts lists, BIOS images and…
