Tag: retro computing
[youtube WqntkEOugYY nolink] The video above shows an amazing Apple IIc mod, battery-powered and with a built-in colour monitor. Charles Mangin, the guy behind the amazing machine will be showing it off at KansasFest. Source: A2Central
The National Museum of Computing in UK is trying to get help to maintain its collection of BBC Micro, first launched in 1981. Most of the collection is used on an interactive exhibit, and the need for maintenance also includes peripherals like CRT monitors. The museum, which is located on the Bletchley Park estate, has about 80 BBC Micro computers,…
[vimeo 131396863 nolink] A two-part video published on Vimeo shows how to connect a Commodore 64 to the internet, using a Raspberry PI and a RS-232->USB adapter. [vimeo 131396865 nolink] Don’t expect colourful webpages showing up in your 1701, but at the end he shows the C64 accessing the internet using the character interface, which opens a myriad of possibilities…
Nick Lee (@nickplee on Twitter) has squeezed the Mini vMac Emulator on the Apple Watch. The video below shows the feat, where you can see OS 7 booting and running on the tiny Apple Watch screen. [youtube R1xJxS_kr-M nolink] It is noticeable that it runs slow, and probably there is no real use for that, however it is a incredible…
The documentary ‘Viva Amiga’ was crowdfunded back in 2011 and it’s been in production since then. If you are, like us, looking forward to watch it, here is a great opportunity to be one of the first to enjoy it. The Viva Amiga Team and the organizers of the US Amiga 30th anniversary event are pleased to announce the world’s…
It is now open and accepting new order the online store UltimateApple2.com. The store offers hardware and software products for your Apple II, IIc and IIGS. Henry S Courbis also added on the Facebook group Apple II Enthusiasts, that the forum is also open “for project support, discussions, documents, and software. It’s still a work in progress, and new things…
Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir, engineers that designed Amiga’s custom chipset “Lorraine”, will be attending on the next 25th & 26th of July the Amiga 30th anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Ron and Joe will be presenting for the first time their work on the Amiga Lorraine chip set, while working with Jay Miner, the…
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge will be holding the ‘Arc-Aid: Cambridge’ event on Saturday 13th June, with the aim of bringing together members of the online arcade community to repair and restore some of the museum’s arcade machines. Engineers from across the country will gather to open arcade cabinets, extract circuit boards, solder, prod and probe until the…
I’ve just found this link posted on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group, where Christopher Phin writes about his passion to buy vintage computers (mostly Apple in his case). It is a very entertaining and light reading, and at least for me, it reflects very precisely what I feel about vintage computers. The author said his in his 30’s which explains…
64 Bites is releasing a free episode of the upcoming video series about Commodore 64 programming. It is the second one in the series – “Episode #002 – BASIC’s Basics”. In few weeks, the author will release the website c64bites.com, with a subscription-based service where one video will be make available every week. Link: 64 Bites – Episode #2
