Tag: retro computing
Blake Patterson from Byte Cellar had recently his collection featured on PC Magazine website, and today he wrote a new article on his weblog (even calling it weblog is vintage, right?). The article is mostly about his story with computers, and his experience at school, etc… If you are around 40 years old you can probably related a lot to…
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…
Back in 1991, the high school student Ben Kayfetz made a video for a school project. Since he worked at Commodore Canada in the service and support departments, he filmed a visit to Commodore Canadian Headquarters. Although the video hasn’t the best image quality (VHS school project, right?), it is actually well edited, and a nice piece of history about…
Forth was always an odd language to me. Its syntax didn’t match my understanding at all, but it is unquestionable its power and speed. If you are interested about learning it, you should try DurexForth which is a modern (and still maintained) option for the Commodore 64. The developers are very serious about releasing a professional option, which can be…
The Amiga 30th Anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California happened last weekend (on July 25th and 26th), and if you, like many of us, couldn’t be present, the Amiga.org user ‘eliyahu’ has posted links of some photos and videos of the event, gathered from different sources. You can get all the links following the forum post…
Nostalgia Nerd has published a new video review about the Commodore Game System. Manufactured and released by Commodore in late 1990, it’s production span lasted less than a year and was by all accounts a failure in most departments, especially commercial. Get the full story watching the video, along with some snippets of lesser known information. Be also aware that…
If you ever thought about learning a bit of MSX Assembler, today is your lucky day. The Nestruo, Toni Galvez and Wonder entered MSXdev’14 with “World Rally”, a car racing game, but they weren’t able to finish it on time. After some time they realized that they wouldn’t finish it at all, since there are several routines that needed to…
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is probably on the shelves (digital or not) of every geek/retro-gamer/collector/80’s-fanboy, and we already know that it is making its way to the big screen, having Steven Spielberg as director. If you have read the book, and like it, you will glad to know Ernest Cline is releasing on July 14th a new book…
If you think that it is taking too long to get your hands on the new Mac OSX “El Capitan”, you should consider what the Apple IIgs users have been through. After exactly 22 years, 2 months, 2 days and 2 hours since System 6.0.1 was released, a new version of the Apple IIgs operating system has been released. Of…
Matthew Reed has just published on TRS-80.org an article about the TRS-80 Model II. The article does a good job explaining the differences between the model II and model I, as well as covering released software for the machine. With a lot of information and nice catalog images, you should check it out for sure. Link: TRS-80.org
