Tag: retro computing
Our favorite Forth implementation, DurexForth, has released a new version 1.4.5. These are the changes: forth: / now uses floored signed division forth: bugfix for negative number parsing (2- was interpreted as -20) forth: made 2/ sign-extend negative numbers forth: added spaces source >in 2over 2swap m+ m* sm/rem fm/mod dabs dnegate s>d forth: changed word order of double-cell integers…
This morning I learned about a new Amiga 500 emulator that runs on Google Chrome. It is a native port using Portable Native Client, a way to run existing C/C++ in the browser in a safe way across operating systems and across machine architectures. I was curious to see how it performs, so I spent some time playing with it. As…
This is the second in a multi-part series on the TI-99/4A computer. For this history segment, Randy Kindig was lucky enough to find a couple of people who have an incredible history with the TI-99, Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills. Jim has an extensive, multilingual library of all things TI and possesses some very interesting hardware items related to the…
This video is fairly old, from 2008. It was presented by Michael Steil at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress, but it has resurfaced today on Reddit. It is still the best 1-hour long summary of the Commodore 64 hardware and the perfect introduction for those who want to learn more how the C64 works. [youtube ZsRRCnque2E nolink] There is also…
If you want to know a bit more about the Floppy Drive 2031, or maybe you even have one not working seating around, Nightfall Crew shows in this article the work to restore such unit. The article doesn’t intend to be a comprehensive walkthrough but it brings some details about that unit, and the changes made to get it back…
S.A.M – Software Automatic Mouth is a a software-based voice synthesizer for the Apple II. According to A2Heaven, SAM is designed to be easy to use, and with a couple of simple program statements, the user can add speech to your BASIC or machine language programs. You can see by yourself how it sounds like watching the video demo below. [youtube…
PC Magazine likes its slide shows, and sometimes they are really interesting. This one goes through the golden age of TRS-80. It shows only the main computers Tandy-Radio Shack had released since 1977 with the TRS-80 Model I. If you don’t know much about the TRS line, take a ride down the memory lane, following the link below. Link: PCMag
Wiebo de Wit was quick this time to update his blog with the excellent series “Tetris in 6502 Assembler”. The 10th part of the long article. The subject is the main loop and game modes, like the game over mode. Also, as the author says, the article start to tackle the reuse of code, which is very important when the…
Juan J. Martínez has released a port of his ZX Spectrum game ‘The Return of Traxtor’ for the Amstrad CPC. There are 25 levels on the game. You have to use the tractor beam to move blocks into the bay, and fire to throw back the top-most block to the board. Match 3 or more blocks to destroy them before…
ZX Spectrum Games Code Club Book is a new book written by Gary Plowman, containing nothing less than 20 games for you….TYPE-IN! Yes, after the Colouring Books popping up everywhere, now it is time for us, retro computer enthusiasts to have our good old days back. From Amazon’s website: “The book does not go over code line by line, but rather…
