Tag: retro computing
It is not only about WinUAE or FS-UAE. There is also available for Windows the Amiga Emulator Winfellow, which has been around for about 10 years, and it is just got a new version. Actually, two versions of the Windows-based Amiga emulator WinFellow 0.5.3 have been released. The second one (“0.5.3 build 1004”) was compiled again with Visual Studio 2013…
Bill Loguidice has published in his blog, Armchair Arcade a very detailed article telling his experience on upgrading his PET-2001 with PET microSD with datasette power and Commodore PET 2001 ROM/RAM upgrade board. The two products are from Tinymouth Software, and the first article shows his work on replacing the CPU with the small ROM/RAM upgrade board. Not everything was…
Loadstar Monthly Disk Magazine for the Commodore 64 began in 1984 – and continued to 2007 – publishing 248 issues packed to the BAM (Block Access Manager) with games, applications, articles, entertainments, and tutorials. Dave Moorman, last editor of Loadstar has made available a number of issues on-line, ready to download as .D81’s. Each .D81 is packed with commentary, graphics, and…
The Spanish government uses a computer with some handlers connected to asses the future driver hand-eye coordination. In some of the locations that apply the test, there are still MSX computers in operation. Lavandeira.net has published some photos taken on Nov 6th of such equipment: a Mitsubishi ML-G1. That is the second time this type of news comes out. The first…
We that lived the times where we would fistfight our friends in defence of our favourite computer brand/model, know how fierce and endless these ruses can last. How about settle it in a friendly trump card game? If you wonder how, I can tell you that it is going to be possible really soon. There is an already-funded campaign running…
For programmers and curious alike, I’ve found an interesting article written by Eugene Zaikonnikov about LISP for the ZX Spectrum. Home users had usually to rely on the built-in BASIC or buy 3rd party packages to program in PASCAL, C and other languages. Serious Software SpecLisp is the LISP implementation for the Speccy, and now with plenty of information available at the…
There are people studying Latin, Archeology, Ancient History and other “Vintage Subjects” all around the World. How about using MSX BASIC to teach your Computer Science studies some coding. The teacher at Dublin Institute of Technology did that. He gave to his students an assignment that made them use an MSX (emulator) to read some code to be then translated…
DurexForth is a modern implementation of the language Forth for the Commodore 64, and the team behind its development has just released the version 1.4.3. This new version brings bug fixes and some new additions. If you never tried, Forth is a language very different than the traditional ones, so to speak. Compared to C64 Basic, Forth is more attractive in…
Antic podcast is internationally known for its amazing interviews with who made history in the microcomputer industry. On the last episode, Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold has launched a contest that will run for all month of November. Whoever transcribes the most ANTIC interviews from 11/1/15 to 11/30/15 will win a Defender cartridge for the Atari 400/800/XL/XE computers…
Amigaville Issue #1 is out – A new Amiga-oriented PDF magazine, created by Brian Hedley. It contains game reviews covering Legend of Kyrandia, T-Zer0, Micro Machines, Arcade Pool and Archer Macleans Pool. The main feature talks about the future of the Amiga, tackling new hardware and modern software for the Amiga. It is a really nice and well-done magazine, and…
