Over at Forum64 there is a thread on whitening the housing of retro computers. They are experimenting with a replacement for hydrogen peroxide and Oxi. In this method the housing is placed in a plastic container with Domol (cleaning solution), the container is placed in the sun for a day or two. Forum64 Thread: http://www.forum64.de EAB Retr0bright Thread: http://eab.abime.net Website:…
FPGA Arcade is a retro computer system developed by MikeJ and can be used to emulate (in hardware) many retro computers such as: Amiga, Apple II+, AtariST, Atari 800XL, BBC B, Commodore VIC-20 / C64, MSX and the Spectrum. Mfilos has received his FPGA Arcade and has built the system inside a mini-itx case. You can follow his progress on…
John Selck (Graham/Arsenic/Oxyron) released an update of his GFX conversion program. GFX Transformer is a small graphics converter tool which is able to convert between charset, bitmap, color bitmap, FLI modes. It also features a simple sprite grid grabber and also supports hires modes. It’s also possible to swap colours. When loading, the tool automatically detects the file format. Download:…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Das Camp [german], Awakening, Caren and the Tangled Tentacles (compo version 1.0), Kevin in the Woods Beta, HF Crack Intro REMAKE, SD2IEC Super-Dir V0.150830, Triad/GP Intro, Spiders-Raushau-Disk 001, Heroes & Cowards +D [english/german], Montantenna (Remix), Onslaught Intro [Clean Cut], Onslaught Intro [Hellfire V5], Welcome to… Hell! +3, Moonraker +2, iLogicAll Preview, Behemoth…
GadgetUK164 has made a number of repair videos for the Commodore 64. The most recent videos are about CIA problems, looking at faulty chips, PLA repair, SID repair and repairing a missing pin on a SID chip. [youtube tF1R4X037yg nolink]YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/GadgetUK164/videos
Radical Brad is working on a 6502 project. He is building a 1980’s retro game system with the following rules: CPU: 6502, 74xx logic gates, breadboard, Video: VGA, 256 colours and 400×300 pixels, GPU system with Blitter and a sound system with 4 channels. [youtube M9kUlFZM0gM nolink][youtube chACO3WNtg0 nolink]Forum Thread: http://forum.6502.org
A new version of Directory Opus has been released. In this version improvements for the directory, the hunt command, the text viewer, Dopus_Print, memory allocation, icons and the history files. Website: http://www.os4depot.net
Two new episodes of BoingsWorld (German language) are now available. You can listen to the following articles: Amiga news, Interviews: Wei-ju and Costel Mincea, Artbase, Bad Bramstedt, Hyperion, Commodore Pet Handy, Kickstarter: A1200 Housing, Tales of Gorluth II, Mountain View and Gorky 17. Schnapper des Monats, Interview with Markus Tillman and Veranstalter Amiga 30 Jahre in Neuss. Website: http://boingsworld.de
Glow Path Basic is a new Commodore 64 game by Steveboy, coded in Basic. In the game you must connect the power source to the endpoint in a limited amount of moves. The game also has a cheat modes. Cheat Mode On/Off: Options menu – Up+Right Cheat in game: – Up+Right: level complete – Down+left: help view Download: Glow Path…
This month on Open Apple, Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman is the guest, and they talk about her experiences on Kansasfest and lots of other Apple II stuff. Other than the interview, tons of other subjects that will interest the Apple II enthusiast, like a D-Clock clone and a RamWorks III clone. Link: Open Apple
