[youtube B-mEvJ_gevw nolink] Kier Kracht has always been a big MSX enthusiast, and back in the 90’s he was always seen carrying a video camera visiting and filming MSX events. He once shared his videos with MSX-Posse who recently published them on their freshly created Youtube channel. Some of the videos I checked have no subtitles, but is still worth…
Relaunch64 is an open source IDE for C64 assembler-coding on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and the version 3.3.2 has just been released. The changelog show that the only addition for this update is support for retina displays. Link: Relaunch Website Source Code: Github
Parcel number two has arrived, another big box of Commodore 64 goodness! Opening the box my eyes light up, nostalgia rushing down my spine, I feel 8 years old again :) What a lovely haul this time round with quite a few nice condition big boxed and double cased games. I now have probably too much work on my hands,…
According a post on The Commodore Computer Club – USA website, due to personal matters the club is going on a brief hiatus, during which there won’t be any regular meetings. C64 Club members will continue attending various expos and events, staying in contact, and the club website will still be updated with random bits of retro Commodore computer goodness….
Well, it is not really ‘ours’, but the one The Henry Ford bought from the auction at Bonhams’ last year. Kristen Gallerneaux, Curator of Communications and Information Technology at The Henry Ford, wrote an interesting article covering the steps the institute followed to buy that specific machine. To read the full article, follow the link below. Link: The Henry Ford
[youtube K56sadbHJMU nolink] After more than four years of silence, we finally have news about the release of Veronica, an accelerator card for the Atari XL/XE. The project, an expansion card equipped with a 65C86S CPU running at 15Mhz and 64KB of RAM, has started back in 2010 by Marek “DIA” Konopka and Marked “Zenon” Grzbiett. The creators of the…
One dark and gloomy night, the kingdom of Alexandria is attacked by an evil sorcerer and his army of darkness! Despite their best efforts to protect their king and their princess, the royal guard falls, one-by-one, to the forces of evil. One knight, unconscious but still alive, awakens on the throne room floor to find that the princess is nowhere…
This is not really a retro computing news by itself, but Radio Shack is so attached to the beginning of personal computing, mainly with it TRS-80, and all the others model that followed it, that we have to report the what looked like inevitable. According to the WSJ, “RadioShack Corp. filed for bankruptcy this Thursday after reaching a deal to…
Power Pack 64 is out bringing five great games in full: PHASE OUT NOT EVEN HUMAN TUTTI FRUTTI 64 ASSEMBLOIDS SCRAMBLE V1.12 This is going to be the last Power Pack and it brings an amazing content to celebrate the historic milestone. Commodore Format Archive said – “for this last Power Pack tape – which is appropriately enough number 64!…
In mid-November, John Romero shared with the Apple II community some sad news: Bob Bishop, co-founder of Apple’s R&D department and KansasFest 2011 keynote speaker, had passed away. According to A2Central and Apple II Bits, the word went out on Facebook via Gary Koffler that the late Bob Bishop’s Apple II collection might be heading for the dumpster. John and…
