This episode features Atari Family Finances as released by Atari in 1982. This software was originally released in 1981 through APX as Family Cash Flow and Family Budget. It was written by Jerry Falkenhan. The Inverse ATASCII podcast discusses productivity software, hardware that supports productivity, and modern life with vintage Atari computers. Link: Inverse Atascii
When Kevin Savetz is not hosting the Antic Atari Podcast, he keeps himself busy as the most active Atari archivist, with several contributions that are all uploaded to Internet Archive. Today he posted on AtariAge forum a list of great “probably-never-seen” Atari material, as well as a “silly video created by Atari customer service employees around Christmas 1981. It was…
Some will buy a vintage computer out of Craigslist, some will be happy with a nice emulation, but not Dirk Grappendorf. He decided to create his own MOS6502 based computer from scratch. On his website he tells a bit more about his experiences building his machine, describing the project development in a chronological order. Every step adds some more components…
As you may remember ‘A Visual Commpendium’ was a Kickstarter project started by Sam Dyer that was successfully funded back in May last year. We thought it was about time we did a review about this awesome Commodore 64 book which features some of the very best times in Commodore gaming. There’s a lot of excellent Commodore 64 books out…
Mikael Persson, known as ‘hipoonios’ over Abime Amiga Forums, who released a Smurf game for the Amiga received a ‘cease and desist’ letter from the lawyers representing Studio Peyo, the owners of The Smurfs trademark for trademark infringement. We cannot contest the fact that making the game using their intellectual property without permission is really a trademark infringement, but it…
The Independent (UK) features an article discussing the documentary ‘From Bedrooms To Billions’, showing the birth of game development on the early 80’s. The ‘revolution’ was driven by young people that saw on game development their way to money and success. You can watch ‘From Bedrooms To Billions’ online at frombedroomstobillions.com Link: The Independent
That’s an odd choice, but very interesting nonetheless. Thomas ten Cate decided to try to transfer his old programs from his beloved BBC Micro using QR-Code plotted on screen, and he reports his progress, problems and findings in a series of 6 articles on his personal blog. As he explains, that “most QR codes are fairly small, as they contain…
Retrobattlestations is promoting a 6502 week until the end of January, and to participate you have to send a picture of video of a machine that is powered by a 6502. Here are the rules: To participate in the contest you need to make a new post to RetroBattlestations of a picture or video that you shot of hardware that…
Do you remember Jumper’n Run: Smurf Rescue that we reported here back in Jan 7th? Now, the developer known as ‘hipoonios’ over Abime Amiga Forums received a ‘cease and desist’ letter from the lawyers representing Studio Peyo, the owners of The Smurfs trademark for trademark infringement. We cannot contest the fact that making the game using their intellectual property without…
Gerard Putter has updated his already excellent Apple II emulator for the Apple II. What’s new in version 7.5.2: Fixed an issue that could cause the virtual procesor to get stuck in an endless loop. The right arrow key did not work correctly when used for game control. This has been fixed. Link: Virtual II
