Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 9.0 washeld in Lombard, Illinois September 13 and 14, 2014. Steven’s Electronics Blog has a nice report of the event, and Dave Ruske was there with the RCA 1802 COSMAC exhibit, and he uploaded some nice pictures of the event. Report: Steven’s Blog Photo Album: Dave’s Flickr Page Source: Reddit’s Retrobattlestations
A new cartridge has been produced by a group of TI’ers. It’s been in limited production, but more are promised to be coming soon. The cartridge replaces TI Extended Basic, and the TI Editor Assembler. It also includes a list of utilities as well as games. Follow the links below for more information. Source: www.99er.net FAQ: TI-99/4a Stuff Announcement: Atariage
[youtube w2P6UJy17ro nolink] Dagen Brock is back with a follow up video of his Lesson 0 one published few weeks ago. This time, he revisits some concepts he talked on his first video and answers questions that the viewers sent. Source: A2Central Video Link: YouTube
Icaros Desktop will be part of the incoming edition of Game Over, underground festival of indie developers, which will take place in Milano, Italy, on Saturday 20th and sunday 21st. Icaros Desktop 2.0 will be presented on Saturday afternoon only, with precise timings still TBA. The location of the presentation will be in the Green Area, under the YATTA! banner….
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 22-09-2014. 2014-09-22 new: Music Disk (Action Force) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-09-22 new: Music Rip 2 (Silicon League) done by Psygore (Info,Image) 2014-09-21 new: Alternative Reality (Suspect) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-09-20 new: Turrican Music-Show (Spreadpoint) done by Psygore (Info,Image)…
Latest updates from Vinny over at c64endings.co.uk are as follows: Sergeant Seymour by Codemasters Skull & Crossbones by Domark Penetrator by Melbourne House Oh no! by Silverbird Slug by Alternative Software Website: http://www.c64endings.co.uk
Bonhams Auction house will hold on October 22nd the History of Science auction, and the most iconic lot to be offered will be an working Apple-1 Computer. It is expected that it will go for something in between $300,000 and $500,000. Back in 2013, an Apple-1 was sold for $387,750 at a Christie’s online-only auction. Another one was sold three…
Spectaculator is a complete ZX Spectrum for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad! Contains Sinclair BASIC and many great games from the 1980s These are the changes for the version 6.0: Refreshed for iOS 7. Added more licensed games: Bear Bovver Doomdark’s Revenge Everyone’s a Wally KWAH! Redhawk Skool Daze Website: Spectaculator Download Link: iTunes
[youtube -oQqgxfF1p0 nolink] Boxx is a platform game made using Backbone, a game creation system for the Amiga that requires no programming knowledge at all. In the game, your character has to collect the coins while dodging the enemies through the platforms. It is a traditional gameplay but still a lot of fun, and the stylish pixelated graphics and bright…
