Tag: Commodore
New c64-Cases for Christmas 2016 After a pause of several years, fans of classic computers worldwide can look forward to a series of Commodore PCs. The company “individual Computers GmbH”, based in Germany and well-known in the Retro-Computing community, has licensed the rights of the Commodore trademarks from Polabe Holding N.V. New For Old: c64c-Cases Planned For Autumn 2016 The…
DUBCRT is a music album, interactive light synthesizer and remix-gadget released as a Commodore 64 cartridge. With music and visuals from some of the most prolific experimentalists of the 8-bit scenes, DUBCRT taps into 1960s modernist forms, 1970s dub, 2000s glitch aesthetics, and 2020s sustainable computing. DUBCRT features: Eight songs ranging from ambient to IDM and drum n’ bass Visualisers…
Pyrofer is working on a converter to transform a 80 column CGA video signal to RGB. With this system you can connect your Commodore 128 to a RGB monitor. At the moment the refresh rate is 15 kHz (no scan doubler). Website: http://c-128.freeforums.net
Epsilon has written a post about upgrading his Amiga 500. He shows how to install the Individual Computers ACA1233n 030 accelerator with optional RTC battery expansion, a 512k memory expansion and a new Amiga floppy drive, complete with a 3D printed drive eject button designed to fit the Amiga 500. Click the link below to read more about it. Website: http://amigax1000.blogspot.co.uk
The CGRS MICROTECH PEDISK II was an early floppy disk system for the Commodore PET/CBM computer. The PEDISK did not use the IEEE bus like the Commodore disk drives, but instead used a standard floppy disk controller chip connected to the inside of the PET/CBM machine. It could support both 5.25″ and 8″ standard floppy mechanisms as configured from the…
Stefan Egger (Computer Collection Vienna) has purchased an Amiga 3400, a computer that later became the Amiga 4000. It’s a functional unit and there are some differences from the later series production. Some missing parts (upper housing part, HDD holder bracket for the floppy drive, Joyport sheet etc.) are soon to complete the unit. The bracket for the floppy drive is not identical to…
Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 3. (beta 2 must of been released fast as we didn’t even notice!) WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to…
[youtube bgdOEF2fJ2E nolink] Publisher: PD/Freeware Developer: Gernot Fritsche Download: CenterCourt2.zip, CCTennis2CD32.7z Website: English Amiga Board
Episode 15 is all about NetSurf with Chris Young. It is possible that NetSurf in future could be only one modern web browser for AmigaOS 4.x (and 3.x). Website: http://www.amigapodcast.com
August updates over at The New Dimension are as follows: Dark Force Dissected, SEUCK School, SIDScope, 24BIT Frequency Counter, Zub the Box by Roberto Ricioppo, Let’s Invade Preview by TND Games, Jimbas the Warrior, World of Numbers, Abyss Global, Super Road Seven 06, Sub13, Arcadians 071, finally Cloco the Robot, Mission Ras 2, Shomys 06, ZB Rinco and Commander 02. Website: http://tnd64.unikat.sk
