Tag: retro computing
Coming this August 3rd through August 9th is the Apple II Festival France 2015, at Maska to Castera-Verduzan in Gers. Join your fellow European Apple II enthusiasts for a week of retrocomputing, gaming, hacking and fellowship. Apple II Festival France 2015 is being produced by Silicium and the Facebook group Groupe Apple II France. Link: Event Website Source: A2Central
Every retro computing aficionado will tell you that there is no better experience than running your favourite program or game in the real machine. The noises, the smell, the keystrokes, everything helps to take you back to the good old days. But unfortunately not everyone has the means (space, money, time, spouse’s approval) to keep that vintage computer around, ready to be…
Jim Salmons sent a message on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group that has got us all very excited. The Softalk Apple Collection at the Internet Archive has already 42 of the 48 issues of Softalk up for you enjoyment. He and his wife were behind the effort to bring the originals to Internet Archive headquarters and get them scanned and…
[youtube o-zzW-2mWQI nolink] Technobytes shows us a teaser video of their new accelerator card for the Apple II. For now, the card is not available for purchase, and it is still being tested. Source: Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook Group
[youtube LmCQBJkmw4s nolink] My teenager son had a small task to be done in March. He had to create a small game in BASIC for the Commodore Plus/4 and write something about his experience. I asked him to use the actual computer, not an emulator or any modern IDE. I wanted to know his impressions about the computer, the environment,…
This time around, Lavandeira goes through the basics of a C program, aiming people that never programmed using the language. Reading through the text, I was gladly surprise how he explained basic concepts and syntax structures. Even if you are not interested on MSX programming, but want to learn a bit more about C language, I strongly recommend this article….
The new episode of RCR, with the participation of Jack Nutting (hosting), Earl Evans, Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, and Carrington Vanston, brings lots of memories about Radio Shack, its iconic TRS-80 family of computers, and much more. Link: RCR
