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…
Kevin Smallwood announced in the Facebook Apple II Enthusiasts forum that he intends to release the GBBSPro bulletin board system (along with ACOS and other related products) under the GPL. Kevin is the current owner of the GBBSPro product. Tony Diaz has a huge collection of GBBSPro/ACOS material, so in tandem, they will be releasing a literal treasure trove of…
The CFFA 3000 card is probably the most desired modern modern interface for the Apple II computers (][+, //e, //e enh or //gs), and every time a new batch is released, it vanishes in a heartbeat. In an e-mail to interested buyers, Rich Dreher dropped the bombshell that the next run of CFFA 3000 boards will be delayed until November…
C64.com has published an interview with Matt Gray, the great Commodore 64 SID composer (Last Ninja 2)! Matt is also running a Kickstarter campaign “Reformation C64 Track Remakes”, which has reached (and passed) its goal already. You can read the interview following the link below. Link: C64.COM Link: Kickstarted Campaign
