Tag: Retro Computing News
This post is for those that like to get their hands dirty, opening the C64 and replacing dying parts. Sometimes the hardest part is to find and match modern components to the ones used to build a Commodore 64 back in the 80s. An article on Technologically Induced Coma blog has listed all the parts of a Rev C board and…
Backing a Kickstarter usually comes with a certain degree of risk, since the project can fail and be gone with you money. This is not the case here! Commodore 64: a visual Compendium Second Edition by Sam Dyer from Bitmap Books. He has proven he is capable of delivering a high-quality product, sometimes surpassing any expectation and with this campaign, that already…
Retro computer’s floppy drives are a species facing extinction. With all moving parts and sensible mechanism, it is hard to keep them working properly. For those who have an extensive collection of floppy disks, the options are to copy them to any modern mass storage solution or to pray for their floppy drives not to die… MSX owners have an…
Obligement Amiga website has published an extensive interview with Christoph Gutjahr, one of the guys behind Aminet and Amiga-News.de, two of the most important websites about the Amiga. The interview is fascinating, showing the site’s importance, the work needed to keep them running and other interesting information. I found the interview even more interesting due to the fact I face a lot of the…
With all the buzz about Windows 10, its awesomeness and its problems you may be thinking to change to another OS. To help you with that task comes the Internet Archive! Today the non-profit organization has released almost a thousand Windows 3.1 programs that can run directly on your browser. The new collection includes games, utilities and business software – the jewel of the…
You will feel like you are wearing a hazmat suit while handling a dangerous virus in a lab. The Internet Archive just released The Malware Museum displaying a collection of viruses that were spread in de the 80s and 90s. If names like PYRAMID.COM, ITALIAN.COM and ZHU.COM make you tremble in terror, you will love to visit the Internet Archive collection and…
Rainbow Walker was published by Synapse Software in 1983 for the Atari 8-bit. Developed by Steve Coleman, it is an arcade game where you control Cedrick, a small creature that has the power to add colours back to the rainbow after a villain had stolen all the colors leaving the rainbow gray and dull. The AtariAge forum user Wrathchild managed to make the conversion…
Sprite Castle, the podcast about the Commodore 64 has a new episode. This week, Rob O’hara covers the 1985 Data East game KARATE CHAMP. If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on Sprite Castle by accessing the podcast website, following the link below. Link: Sprite Castle
Quinn Dunki while not recording Open Apple podcast, keeps herself busy tinkering with the Apple IIc. She has published on her blog, Blondihacks, an extensive and super-geeky article to show how she was able to add an accelerator control for the Apple IIc plus, a machine that was able to run on both 4Mhz and the Apple II standard 1.023Mhz….
When 2015 was coming to an end, somewhere in the MSX Resource Center headquarters the whole website saw its whole life flashes before its eyes when the server two hard disks decided to crash at the same time. We all, retro computing enthusiasts were breathless with the possibility of losing invaluable content related to MSX. The most important MSX site stayed…
