Christopher Handley released a new version of PortablE. PortablE is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language with many improvements. The program is available for Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows. You can find a complete list of new and improved items on the PortablE web page. Website: http://cshandley.co.uk
RetroWiki is a Spanish pdf Retro Computer Magazine. In this edition the following articles: News, Dragon 32, 64 and 200, Thomson MO5, TO7 and TO9, 5 VDC power supply, Uridium, Knight Rider, Shinobi,Commodore Plus: SD2IEC – 1541, improving your joysticks and Crazy Balloon. Website: http://www.retrowiki.es
Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on a FPGA version of the Commodore 65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. In the last month he has been working on anti-aliasing, proportional fonts, a C65GS laptop, migration to Vivado, memory access and loading data via Ethernet. Website: http://c65gs.blogspot.com.au
The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: The following illegal nop opcodesare added: nop #$01 – nop $02 – nop $03,x – nop $1000 – nop $1000,x. Website: http://www.theweb.dk
The winter edition of the Retrochallenge competition will be held from 1-12-2014 until 31-1-2015. Everybody with a retro computer project can compete. Examples of the entries are: Urbancamo – KIM Uno with keypad, Michael Sternberg – Serial port, Eric Smith – Restoration of a 1976 computer, Paleoferrosaurus – Building a classic computer from junk hardware. Website: http://www.retrochallenge.org
[youtube CN8aDkgqHn4 nolink] The Sinclair Spectrum Vega is a new low cost games computer based on Sir Clive’s hugely successful Spectrum products of the early 1980s. The Vega has been developed by Chris Smith, a former ZX Spectrum games developer who is the world’s leading expert on Sinclair Spectrum technology and author of the definitive technical book “The ZX Spectrum…
[youtube _SkfJgMuERo nolink] This will make you think on Netflix in a completely different way. Today on Reddit, it was posted a impressive video showing a TRS-80 streaming the intro of a Doctor Who episode. The video is very short but it amazed me the technical accomplishment, not to say about the constant floppy changes! Imagine if he was doing…
This month on Open Apple the hosts present an early holiday gift, in the form of an epic three hour episode. They sit down for a great conversation with Apple II legend Randy Brandt, perhaps best known for his work at Beagle Bros. We go deep on Beagle Bros, exploring the making of their quirky, innovative software and the wacky…
Another rare chance to get your hands on something special :)Nic from ‘The Future was 8bit‘ has listed another C64p on ebay! Click here to bid on the C64p! In case you don’t know what the C64p is, it’s a Commodore 64 laptop based on C64DTV hardware and assembled in a brand new netbook shell. All of the internals of…
Another rare chance to get your hands on something special :)Nic from ‘The Future was 8bit‘ has listed another C64p on ebay! Click here to bid on the C64p! In case you don’t know what the C64p is, it’s a Commodore 64 laptop based on C64DTV hardware and assembled in a brand new netbook shell. All of the internals of…
