SID doing Paula

Trooper and aNdy from the group Arkanix Labs made a compilation of Amiga Paula music for the C64 SID. The SID’s in this compilations are: SidDoingPaula-ArkanixLabs, CrackOrDie, Matkamies, FrequencyShifter, Bambam, DelicateOooz and Uridium2Loader. Download: SidDoingPaula-ArkanixLabs.d64Website: CSDb

Apple II users rejoice! CiderPress 4.0.0 released!

CiderPress provides the features that Apple II enthusiasts need to manage their disk and file archives. Open them, view their contents, and copy files between them. CiderPress, introduced in March 2003, was developed and sold as shareware by faddenSoft, LLC. The program was made free, and the source code released under the BSD license, in March 2007. A “refresh” to…

Commodore Vegas Expo v11 – July 18 & 19, 2015

The Fresno Commodore User Group and the Clark County Commodore Computer Club of Las Vegas have worked hard to make this year’s effort the best C= show on the West Coast of the United States. This year the show is dedicated to the Commodore 264 series the Plus/4, 264, 364, 16, and 116 and 50th Anniversary of BASIC! It will…

The untold story of the invention of the game cartridge

For some, it doesn’t seem to be an significant achievement, but the cartridge allow the video game industry to jump from the dedicated systems, like Pong, to all-purpose consoles. FastCompany website has published an impressive article about the invention of the game cartridge, written by Benj Edwards. According to his own website Vintage Computing and Gaming, Benj started his research…

Open Apple Podcast #43 – Interview with Ben Heck

This month on Open Apple, the hosts interview Ben Heck. They talk about his Apple I replica, his Apple IIgs laptop, and much more. Link: Open Apple

C64SD V3.0 Princess Firmware Update

The C64SD V3.0 Princess developer has released the latest firmware and menu update. Release Notes: – resolved a potential incompatibility with VICE VIC emulation that required to split VIC grabbing into PAL and NTSC versions – some minor fixups Users that grabbed cassettes using VIC PAL with previous versions of the firmware are adviced to execute their dumps again wherever…

Populous conversion 'proof of concept' for C64 recovered and released!

Games That Weren’t 64 has released the attempt/proof of concept of the game god-sim Populous by Peter Molyneux. Coder, Frank Hugenroth, got in touch with GTW64 in 2015 and confirmed that it was created more as a technical demo for the C64 and was contributed initially as a contribution to an animation/GFX competition. Andreas Vargas commented on GTW 64 that…

Populous conversion 'proof of concept' for C64 recovered and released!

Games That Weren’t 64 has released the attempt/proof of concept of the game god-sim Populous by Peter Molyneux. Coder, Frank Hugenroth, got in touch with GTW64 in 2015 and confirmed that it was created more as a technical demo for the C64 and was contributed initially as a contribution to an animation/GFX competition. Andreas Vargas commented on GTW 64 that…

FS-UAE 2.5.25dev Released

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.25dev: New option sound_card = toccata. Added several joystick configs [johanpalmqvist]. Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b1. Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.25dev: Fixed problem locating translation files in some cases. Reverted to preferring QT4 for now. Added several joystick configs [johanpalmqvist]. Website: http://fs-uae.net

Retro Asylum Covers Project Volume One

Aaron White has sent over yet another Retro Asylum chip-tune Amiga disk!This one is titled ‘Retro Asylum Covers Project Volume One’ and contains ten cover versions of your favourite 80’s/90’s music for your enjoyment! Volume One suggests to us that hopefully we will be blessed with a Volume 2 and 3? We shall see .. Stay tuned! and as always,…