Tag: vintage computer
Game development competitions are always fun to participate if you are a developer, and always fun to follow if you are a gamer looking for modern games for your beloved platform. Earlier this year we saw great games coming out of ABBUC’s Compo for Atari 8-bits and the CPCRetroDev compo that brought to us many more amazing games for the Amstrad…
Atariage user Ramses let us know about this video of the Atari programmers panel from the Portland Expo 2015. It includes Bob Smith, Tod Frye, Rob Zdybel, and Howard Scott Warshaw. Anyone interested in retro game development should watch it. Really interesting. [youtube YLoJ5jcccPU nolink] On a side note, the video and sound are perfect, which is very rare in retro…
The YouTube user PC DOODLE has published a video demonstrating an Apple II connecting to the Internet and accessing Reddit. The connection is made via a serial port connected to an Arduino equipped with a wireless chip. The software running on the Apple II is a standard terminal emulator, and the secret sauce is really how to Arduino board is talking…
This is just a reminder that the tenth edition of VCF Midwest will take place on August 29 and 30, at west of Chicago in Elk Grove Village, IL. The show will run from 8:00 AM on Saturday on into the night, coming to a temporary close at 11:00 PM and reopening at 10:00 AM Sunday morning, and finishing by…
This episode of Inverse ATASCII tackles a different type of productivity tool – The Atari Portfolio, the first MS-DOS compatible handheld device. The device is actually developed by another company – DIP Research and then licensed to Atari. To learn everything about the device, and see some nice pictures of it, head over Inverse ATASCII podcast website. Link: Inverse ATASCII
KansasFest organizers have published today an invitation for more speakers for the upcoming KansasFest 2015. “We’ve got about 1300 minutes of time available for folks to do sessions throughout KansasFest. With 800 minutes presently spoken for, that leaves PLENTY of space for more signups!” Some currently scheduled sessions include: Techniques and tricks to convert Apple monitors to LCD Sequencer-controlled music…
[youtube 8biJKMm3NEk nolink] This is just a reminder for those who will be able to attend. The 10th edition of the Vintage Computer Festival will be next weekend, April 17-19 in Wall, New Jersey. The sessions for this Friday will include everything from chiptunes to retr0bright to emulating vintage computers on FPGAs, and Saturday and Sunday will feature an incredible…
Amiga-news has shared today this link, from the “Computer Collection Vienna”, where it show an Amiga prototype, called VELVET REV03, ICs mostly from early 1985, thus six month before official presentation! The machine has only 128k RAM and can be expanded by another 128k on front expansion port to a maximum of 256k. The final version ended up with a…
