It was held in Manchester (UK) last weekend the event Play Expo, which included a great retro-gaming show. The reddit’s user spetrumero posted today some great pictures and a report of his participation on the event, which we partially reproduce here: “Play Expo probably has Europe’s – maybe the world’s – largest retrogaming show. I usually bring some kit to…
A new episode of The History of Personal Computing is available now. On this episode listen along as David Greelish and Jeff Salzman discuss several of the early single board computers, including the Nascom 1, OSI Superboard, MOS Technology KIM-1, anf the COSMAC ELF. Link: The History of Personal Computing Website
[youtube LiUruvTCQQ8 nolink] Ben Heck has published a video series showing his work building a portable ZX Spectrum, which we have reported here (see links below). Last August, he went to Electromagnetic Field Camp 2014, a non-profit UK camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things, and gave a speech about his work with…
Reading ZX Spectrum subreddit, I’ve found this article written by Chris Osborn on his blog Insentricity titled “Zed to Zee”, showing how he was able to make three ZX Spectrum computers. It is a pretty nice guide, allowing all of us living in the colonies to import one Speccy and hook them up to our power and monitors. “Well, one…
After the great success of his first book, Commodore 64:a visual Compendium, Sam Dyer started his new Kickstarter campaign on October 13th, asking for £25,000 to fund the new book, Commodore Amiga: a visual Compendium. After just a few days, the amount pledged reaches £43,000 and there are still 27 days left for the campaign. This great accomplishment has one…
After the great success of his first book, Commodore 64:a visual Compendium, Sam Dyer started his new Kickstarter campaign on October 13th, asking for £25,000 to fund the new book, Commodore Amiga: a visual Compendium. After just a few days, the amount pledged reaches £43,000 and there are still 27 days left for the campaign. This great accomplishment has one…
This month, 26 years ago, the NeXT Computer was released. Salvatore Bognanni wrote a nice article about this great computer that was a commercial failure, but also it became the foundation for the successful Mac OSX. The system is a 1 foot cube magnesium case with a long cable that extends to the display. At the time, its performance spared…
InverseAtascii is an Atari podcast that covers productivity tools for the Atari 8 bit line of computers, and it has released its second episode talking about the first word processor released for the Atari 8 bit computers. To download the show and check some screenshots of the Letter Perfect software, click the link below. Link: InverseAtascii
Amiga Gamer blog has posted an interesting article about how to install a Gotek drive in his Amiga A500. The Gotek drive is a USB Floppy Drive Emulator, and it can have his firmware changed to work with Amiga computers. “I’m really pleased with my new Gotek setup. It’s given my Amiga 500 a new lease of life, and at…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Cin – Birthday Picture, Invader Alert +ED 101%, Head-On +2D [onefiled], Savage Island 101% +1S, PIC2SPR V1.2e, Left Over, Hung Over, Disc-Over, Came Over, Bend Over, Ultimate Opus V0.1, SID Duzz’ It V2.1.7, GAEddtRO, The Skulls, V-12 of TX Logo, Improve Your Dancing!, Farewell Fairlight, End in Horror !, Stay Down, Audiotap…
