This blog post talks about the author’s task to put together a collection of single load / crunched games on a 32meg ProDOS volume that’ll work not only for emulators and the CFFA3000, but also as a standard partition for use with the CFFA v1 or v2, MicroDrive, Focus or SCSI drive. He seems to have accomplished that using the…
The epic battle to end all battles has arrived and the argument that made 80’s school playgrounds buzz will be settled once and for all. Which was better – The Spectrum or the C64? This video was recorded live at Play Expo 2014, with John Gibson and Ste Pickford on the Spectrum side, and Andy Walker and Jeff Minter fighting…
Robert Joy from Ram Retro Arcade Memories has reviewed more arcade classics for Vitno, click the following new additions below. Marble Madness Super Space Invaders 91 Toobin Website: http://retroarcadememories.wordpress.com
Yerzmyey has released a chiptune album which contains tracks made using a variety of retro-computers: ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Sam Coupe’ and Amiga). All the tracks can be download for free at the artist’s website. Link: YERZMYEY Source: World of Spectrum Forum
ZEsarUX is an open source Sinclair emulator for Unix-like OSes (Linux, Raspbian, Mac OSX, etc). It emulates 16k, 48k, Inves Spectrum+, Spectrum 128k (English and Spanish), Spectrum +2 (English, Spanish and French), Spectrum +2A (English and Spanish), Microdigital TK90X (Portuguese and Spanish), TK95, ZX80, ZX81. Release notes for version 1.3: Added experimental support for raspberry (raspbian) Added Framebuffer Device video…
Quinn Dunki is back again with another blog post, this time talking about how she bootstrapped her Apple IIc. The article is full of useful information and fun to read. “This is a distinctly modern problem. Back in the day, the machine would have, of course, come with many bootable disks, any number of which could be used to create…
It is common knowledge that Dr. Wendell Sander is the “father” of the Apple ///, and that Daniel Kottke was the lead tech for the Sara project. But did you know that before Colette Askeland was doing board layout design for the original Macintosh prototypes, she was the PCB layout artist for the ///?
This is the second post published by Wiebo de Wit on his blog – DevDef. This time he explains all about the most common file formats, file management and settings related to these files. Link: DevDef Blog
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Propaganda #28, Koala Lumpur, 64 Forever, Agnes64 (iPad), Die Selbst in zunehmendem Nebel, In Vino Veritas, Xenomorphic, I Too Was Young Once, Eggland +4, The Last Reader, Sid*Nation – The Music Collection, Analoque Monster, Invitro from AFL, We Have Arrived (X2014), Rocket. Source: CSDb
Beta 22: – CDTV-CR CD unit was initialized even when CDTV-CR emulation was not enabled. Broke CD access on configurations that used CD unit for other purposes. – Changed directory filesystem max file size limit (when not using 64-bit dos packets) to 4G-1. Old 2G-1 was technically official max size but most native filesystems don’t enforce it and support file…
