CiA Update / Status

As you may or even may not have noticed the main Admin and poster Kitty has been without contact to CiA for the past two or so weeks. Internet and general real life issues and a current flu illness has put her behind CiA news updates and the usual things she does for CiA and the countless other behind the…

New episode of "The History of Personal Computing" Podcast: Altair 8800 and Kaypro

Listen along as David Greelish and Jeff Salzman discuss the history of the Altair 8800 and Kaypro computer. The Altair 8800 is a Tier One computer presented as the first “commercially available home computer.” As such, it was chosen to be the first computer we talk about on this podcast. The Kaypro was chosen due to a recent and unfortunate…

Immortal C64 Episode 37 Released

Immortal C64 Episode 37 – Powered by Cherry Pepsi. Track Listing : 01 .. Trond Jensen – LCP 8580 – 3:0102 .. Chris Lightfoot – Dont X-ray – 2:0303 .. Marcin Majdzik – Sentimentally Inspired Day – 1:40 04 .. Dariusz Paliga – Style 8 Tune 3 – 2:28 05 .. Alexander Wiklund – Euro Trash – 2:08 06 …..

Now you can have Ben Heck's portable ZX Spectrum

Do you remember the series of three videos where Ben Heck made a portable ZX Spectrum? So, now you can have it! The Register website is giving it away, and all you have to do is sign in with your Reg account (or sign up for one), and answer three questions. The competition runs until 9:00 on Monday 29th September…

CiA Amiga Compilations is Back!

After a scary and dark winter, and a happy and sunny Summer, and another Winter and another Summer, and… Well, after a long time, we managed to bring back the Amiga Compilations database that has been offline for a while. (Complete Assassins Amiga PD Collection) Click the link below and try out some of the excellent games! Link: CiA Amiga…

CiA Exclusive – Salamander C64 Review

Our very own Retrograde played and reviewed, for Commodore is Awesome, the C64 port of the iconic coin-op arcade made by Konami. Follow the link below to read his impressions of the game, and some interesting facts! Review link: C64 Reviews – Salamander

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 9.0 wrap-up

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

New juice for your TI-99/4A – New Extended Basic v2.7 Suite Cartridge

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

Introduction to Assembly Programming on the Apple IIgs – Lesson 0 Follow-up

[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

Meet Icaros Desktop 2.0 in Milano @GameOver

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….