Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on an FPGA version of the Commodore 65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. On his last update, Paul talks about his initial work adding support for sprites. “The focus here is on implementing “normal” C64/C128/C65 sprites for existing software. As such the focus is not on adding new functionality…
Issue 83 of ‘Commodore Free’, the magazine dedicated to Commodore computers is now available for download. The magazine is available in the following formats; PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML, TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image. Website: http://www.commodorefree.com
We’ve been working hard to upload our well-know super-high quality magazine scans to Internet Archive. Although some of the magazines are already available there, they are usually using low definition scans, so we decided that it would be great to have our scans available to more people through archive.org. The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated…
We welcome our new staff member Frank Olvera to Vitno and CiA.Frank has written a new article already which can be found in the articles section of the menu bar. Frank has also written a book ‘Under the Thelian Sky‘ which you can purchase here. Three new Atari ST games have been added to the Atari ST games section. Links page…
ZX-Paintbrush is a tool that allows you to easily create images for the ZX Spectrum, and the new version 2.5 is available for download today. With ZX-Paintbrush, you can load existing or create new SCR (screen files), draw images with mouse-sensitive tools like circles, rectangles, polygons etc. You have different fill styles available in tool boxes and you can alter…
To celebrate 50 years of the BASIC programming language, at this year’s RetroMania there will be a BASIC game programming contest, with cash prizes! You don’t have to go to Zaragoza to participate — just submit your entry by midnight (CET, GMT+1) on the 6th November. Entries from anywhere in the world are welcome. From World of Spectrum Forum: It…
‘Lemmings – The Ports’ by Justin Castle will hit Kickstarter early in 2015! 300 Pages – full colour throughout. Hardback Edition 8.5″ x 8.5″ (21.6cm) Square. PDF Version available too. 100gsm Quality Paperstock 30,000+ Words 1,000+ Screenshots 100+ High Quality DSLR Box Shots. DMA Design Interview – Mini Interview with 2 original members of the DMA Design team. Level Map/Sprite Images – hundreds of images of…
The new episode of FloppyDays is out. This month Randy Kindig covers the less-known CompuColor II, interviews Jim Battle, creator of a CompuColor emulator, and much more! Another great news on the podcast is the Vintage Computing news brought you by …. Vintage is The New Old. That’s right! Starting on this episode, we are going to have a segment…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Game over 1, Disastrous Load Error, Edge of Nothing, So You Died. Man Up!, Tales of the Arabian Nights +32D, PIC2SPR V1.2a, Ciphoid 9 +6DIH 101%, Pink Orgasm 2.0, PIC2SPR V1.2, Leon’s Palace, The Alien Ninja. Source: CSDb
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 03-10-2014. 2014-10-03 new: Cracker Journal 16 (Alpha Flight) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-10-02 new: Cracker Journal 15 (Alpha Flight) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-10-01 improved: Megademo (Joy, Magnificient Force, The Jungle Command) 3 more blitter waits added, 2 more Bplcon0…
