1541 Ultimate II Guide 4 : Floppy Copy

Another post from Wiebo de Wit where he teaches all about copying floppy contents to you UII, so you can digitalize all those type-in BASIC programs that you spent hours entering on your Commodore! Link: DevDef Blog

'Atari: Game Over' Documentary Due For November Release

[youtube lnyoyWpqKJI nolink] After teasing retro gamers with a trailer of Atari: Game Over, the film’s director has stated that the documentary looking into the gaming giant’s collapse and their infamous landfill site is due to hit Xbox Video later this month with no release date set as of yet for other digital distribution platforms. Source: Retro Collect

WinUAE 2.9.0 beta 23

Beta 23: – Dragging vhd file to harddrives panel now adds it as a HDF, not a directory if it does not contain any known filesystem or RDB identifiers. – PCMCIA IDE was always mounted without drive since drive attribute update long time ago. – PCMCIA IDE and SRAM can be added (card inserted) after emulation has been started. –…

Another Apple-1 Goes for Auction

Did you lose the last Apple I auction and don’t know what to do with that million in your wallet ? Fear no more, Reuters is reporting that another fully operational Apple I computer is going for auction next December at Christie’s. The computer is being sold by Robert Luther, a Virginia collector who bought it in 2004 at a…

'Apple II Scans' releases Apple Service Level I Technical Procedures, Volume III

The website Apple II Scans has scanned and posted the Volume III binder of the Apple Service Level I Technical Procedures manual set, dated July 1, 1984, and contains various updates from October 1984 and later. Volume III contains take-apart and basic troubleshooting and repair procedures for the Apple Modems 300 and 1200 and Apple Personal Modem, the Apple Graphics…

Atari 2600 also has its Flappy Bird

New 2600 homebrew games are now available in AtariAge store, including a Flappy Birds “homage”. Like its iOS brethren, Flappy is a fairly simple game. Pressing the joystick button causes your avian friend to flap, and the more you flap, the higher you climb. Your primary goal (and, really, your only goal) is to line up your bird so it…

Homemade MSX graphics tablet using a resistive touch screen

[youtube OHZBGVMgG8I nolink] MSX fan Danjovic, after reading a wiki article about digitizers, decided to create his own experimental graphics tablet using a resistive touch screen. On his blog (in Portuguese) you can read how Danjovic went about creating and testing the tablet, including the schematics for the hardware. He also created a demonstration video where you can see it…

International Karaoke +

A new karaoke game made by Björn Odendahl, Thomas Koncina, Ass it, Brian, dalezy, Harmony Productions, Hein, Hithouse, Lyon, ne7, Static and Cadaver is now available. The SIDs are: Adeste Fideles, Alle Jahre Wieder, Greensleeves, Helle Lieder, Ihr Kinderlein, IK+, Jingle Bells, Kling Glöckchen, Laßt Uns Froh, Leise rieselt, O christmas tree, The Jesus Band, Twinkle Twinkle and X-MAS Music….

Immortal C64 Episode 40 Released *Real Hardware is always better*

Immortal C64 Episode 40 – Real hardware is always better. Track Listing : 01 .. Matt Gray – Deliverance Tune 1 – 3:4302 .. Steven Diemer – Addiction – 4:5803 .. Waz Pilkington – Desecrated Mind – 7:0004 .. Vincent Merken – Psy-x18 – 3:0405 .. Rodney Balai and Tufan Uysal – Cyberball Tune 1 – 6:0906 .. Hein Holt…

Icaros Desktop 2.0

Icaros Desktop 2.0 has been released. New in this version: New AROS core system, DirectoryOpus 5, ScalOS, Enhanced M68K Support, ArTorr, MUI-AYlet, DaySleeper, Subversion (SVN), Viewbox, PictureAlbum, zunzip, arzip, AROS Debug View and much more. Website: http://www.icarosdesktop.org