Tag: Retro Computing News
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Michael Mulhern Host’s Topic: 2016, Here We Come What are your big retro plans for 2016? Writing something, building something, fixing something, selling something? Retro Computing News: MIST FPGA Pictures from World of Commodore 2015 Pictures from World of Commodore 2015 EDSAC Update – Two new videos BBC News article on the EDSAC…
Infocom was the text adventure main publisher in the 80s, being Zork the best-known among the company’s many successful games. A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom was recently released and made available through Internet Archive. During his time at Infocom, Steve Meretzky meticulously…
The web site Plus4world is releasing another instalment of the Moldi’s Treasure Collection. The 8th issue came out only two weeks after the previous one. It is mentioned that this one and the next two won’t have anything particularly amazing, but there are so many utilities, games and demos never seen before that makes these releases really good! Link: Plus/4…
It was announced that MacGUI website will fade out and eventually close over the next few months. “Dog Cow” explained that last year he started to downsize his collection giving away tons of Mac related materials to whoever was willing to pay for postage. Now, the website, which has already been downsized as well will eventually close down. “Dog Cow” wants…
Imagine Google Streets inside a museum. This is exactly what this virtual tour is at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, WA. Made by Tosolini Productions, the virtual tour really takes you to any place inside the museum. You can walk, look around, check the computers, etc. The only thing better than this would be to visit the museum in…
Scene World has introduced a new feature – Video Reviews of new Hardware and Software for your C64. Kevin Casteels, aka Alterus starts by reviewing the latest hardware for the C64: The WIFI modem, created by Schema. [youtube TeuQVKRsObk nolink] Link: Scene World
The YouTube channel “Nostalgia Nerd” has published a video review about the MSX System & Platform. If you know very little about the MSX platform, it is a good opportunity to learn more about it. It tackles the platform history, going from its origins, different models, hardware overview and games. Probably die-hard MSX fans will find it a little superficial, but…
Why didn’t we think of that? Yeah, but Nightfall Crew did. They have posted a list of new games and tools released in 2015 for the Commodore 64, including a download file containing them all. The package doesn’t contain every single release of 2015 but certainly has most of the best ones. The year is not over and more is…
Rebecca Heineman has published the video she recorded during her Twitch streaming, where she talks about Burgerlib, a library that she’s been using for ages to develop games for Apple IIGS, Apple IIe and several other platforms. The video is about 1-hour long. During the first 20 minutes she talks about the history behind Burgerlib, its versions and its state…
This episode of Inverse ATASCII tackles a different type of productivity tool – The Atari Portfolio, the first MS-DOS compatible handheld device. The device is actually developed by another company – DIP Research and then licensed to Atari. To learn everything about the device, and see some nice pictures of it, head over Inverse ATASCII podcast website. Link: Inverse ATASCII
