Tag: retro computer
Do you have that retro project stuck and untouched for years!? Now it is time to step up and finish it! And the best way to do that is competing with fellow retro collectors for bragging rights, right? Retro Challenge 07/2015 is exactly that, a competition where you enter promising to accomplish something and commit to blog about it. It…
Brilliant Maze is a maze game for the Commodore 64 developed by Geir Straume, with music by Odie. The version 1.1 is available now for free here on Vintage Is The New Old download area! The rules of the game are very simple: find your way through the maze to pick up diamonds while avoiding the enemies chasing you. After…
[youtube rushX-wtDig nolink] The Centre for Computer History in Cambridge – UK has announced that the next Retro Gaming Night is happening on June 26th, from 7pm to Midnight. Besides the obvious retro-gaming-jam, the event also allow you to bring that extra retro game or hardware to swap or sell during the event. The space is limited and you can…
The best Commodore development environment has a new version – 3.3.0, containing bug fixes and the following new features: Add background picture to sprite editor. Sprite reorder tool. Character tools work on a range of characters. Assembler: Import binary as decimal data Assembler: Improved value pop-up formatting Assembler: Removed the restriction where files included in a build must have a…
Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir, engineers that designed Amiga’s custom chipset “Lorraine”, will be attending on the next 25th & 26th of July the Amiga 30th anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Ron and Joe will be presenting for the first time their work on the Amiga Lorraine chip set, while working with Jay Miner, the…
I saw this link on Google+ today and I was happily surprised about what I read. There is an Amiga 2000 running day and night for 30 years with the responsibility to control nineteen schools’ air conditioning system in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The system, written by a high school student back then, controls the start/stop of boilers, the start/stop of…
It was brought to our attention this post from Kansasfest orginizer’s webiste that the early bird registration price for the upcoming event will end on May 31. After that, the registration will cost you $55. KansasFest invites any and all Apple II users, fans, and friends to attend the longest running annual Apple II conference. Sign up for the discussion…
Javi Lavandeira is already known by us with his series of articles about MSX development. Today he published on his blog an great article about his visit to ‘Sony Design: MAKING MODERN’ exhibition about the design of Sony products, happening in Ginza, Japan. There, according to Lavandeira (which we agree 110%), they have on display one of the coolest-looking MSX…
The Guardian website has published today a new article about the ZX Spectrum Vega entitle “ZX Spectrum beeps again as nostalgia for 80s tech takes hold”. It states that the ZX Spectrum Vega will arrive later this month to the hands of the backers of the project first. It also mentions that company behind the comeback, Retro Computers, chaired by…
[youtube WnVeB5UX8LY nolink] Chris Torrence has published the Assembly Lines video podcast #11 which shows how to remove the soldered RAM chips in an Apple //c and replace with socketed RAM. Source: A2Central
