The build of Ambermoon.net for Ambermoon has been updated to version v1.13.6 of the project

It's weird but sometimes BASIC beats C, in ways you might not expect! The post Retro C Versus BASIC: Squeezing Games into 8-bit Machines appeared first on Retro Game Coders.

Our friend Allan Pinkerton, who has preserved many released C64 titles over the years and helped us (see ALA Software titles), has preserved a batch of Expert Software titles for the Commodore 64…

The odyssey of disk emulators has finally gotten to an end. At least a status where I can say, new hardware designs are very unlikely, has been reached. After many iterations of new disk emulators up…

Every so often you find a fitness booklet that makes the modern gym look like it has lost its nerve. This one is Sig Klein’s Super Physique: Body-Building Bar-bell Course, sixth English edition…

This illuminating interview with graphic designer Kenichi Nemoto covers the conception and design of the Sega Saturn cult classic Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru. The post Shinrei Jusatsushi Tarōmaru –…

Thanks to Steve Baron for alerting me to a Facebook post from yesterday that brought to light a car I wasn't aware existed. Austin Street Railway 63 is the last surviving (as far as I know!) car from…

On this day 18 years ago I launched the Amiga Graphics Archive with the goal of creating a curated gallery with high quality and rare pixel art images made with and for the Commodore Amiga computer.…

Describing the issues with the v1 and discussing v2

This week’s episode of Upgrade (which I listened to on a longish drive yesterday) has a preview of Jason Snell and Myke Hurley’s upcoming Designed in California podcast. No, not the “Road to the…

gbarecomp's first release showcasing early support for The Minish Cap, Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen/Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald.

and USBODE (USB Optical Drive Emulator): "Ever wanted a GoTek for CDs? If you have a Raspberry Pi Zero W or 2 W, USBODE turns it into a virtual optical drive. It allows you to store many disk…

B etween two "high-tech" developments, back to pure 80s style. This is about adapting a USB keyboard to the computer developed by Frederick John Milens, which I have already mentioned on this blog.…

I will continue providing updates here, but wanted to start an additional side project for some more personal thoughts/writings and to be more compatible for old devices - which is one of the reasons…

Buffalo Courier Express (Buffalo, New York), November 11, 1901 - The Emporia Gazette (Emporia, Kansas), April 4, 1901 - The Emporia Gazette (Emporia, Kansas),

Could humans ever hack alien technology using an Apple laptop? Thankfully, this movie answers the question.

Research into the charming history of an 1920s exhibit on American invention

Yeah, I’m gonna keep going with the Terminator 2 quotes. MAME now has an AI policy for contributors. It’s basically what I said in my previous post, but stated more formally. But…

The October 1967 edition of Life Magazine covered the ongoing Vietnam War but also contained a long article helping readers understand how "man's most complex machine" (the computer) worked. There's…

Computing with punched cards The post It’s all in the holes appeared first on Nathan's Possibly Interesting web site.

awwfulsounds:someone’s mp3 player collection in 2007(x)

As I have been not well and not updating the blog over the last two-three months , you might assume I didn't do a lot with my Amigas during that time. Not so. First off, I have picked up a number of…

Use plot(1) to display tiled maps. The zoom factor decides the grid dimension. osm.js: Download tile images using hget. Cache the images. Convert the PNG image into Plan 9 format using png. Display…

never-obsolete:Windows XP websiteFebruary 2003

In the third chapter of EL AND MAX HIT THE ROAD, the pair are closing in on the missing child's location...but are they prepared for what they'll have to do once they get there? And did you know that…

This is the C.H.I.P. I took this photo on July 25, 2016, when it first arrived at my college dorm room. It will turn 10 years old next month under my possession. Trip down memory lane The C.H.I.P.…

When Intel designed the 80386, they gave it a trick for hiding memory latency: Early Start. Instead of waiting for an instruction to reach its memory micro-op, the 386 begins the next instruction's…

A 256 byte adaption of an infamous screen saver for ROMA.EXE 2026.

A 256 byte intro for Amiga, made for ROMA.EXE 2026. A little fun production that even made it to the 3rd place of the compo ! Well, why not, it’s pretty thrilling after all:

Added the HP t820 to the site.

I'm playing an game from 2013 era called eMush 1 and also maintaining its wiki. I'm sometimes creating new visual assets for special events. This has made me fall in love again with pixel art icons.…

The next board from the cemetery is the VT5329E, a Socket 370 development board which was probably used to validate the switch between Trident to S3 Integrated graphics in early 2000s. Unlike…

How’s that for a click‑bait title. Who in their right mind would defend the monstrosity that is the 8086 segmented memory architecture? By the time I got into 8086 assembly, PCs were mostly…

Dear readers, I am happy to announce the release of Don Matrelli’s Legacy . It is a mod for Grand Prix Circuit (DSI / Accolade, 1988), one of the best motor racing games available for DOS before…

We’ve seen a few test PCBs now; games that were only sold alongside Japanese arcade cabinets to satisfy a law requiring a minimum amount of functionality. Sega gave us Dottori-kun, a remake of…

I’ve only played a single SG-1000 game before (Champion Baseball), but I think it’s an interesting system and wanted to try out some of the classics, so here we are with the SG-1000 version of Ninja…

(This post is part of a series on the subject of my hobby project, which is recreating the C source code for the 1989 game F-15 Strike Eagle II by reverse engineering the original binaries.)

The Teleram 4000 or t-4000 is a vintage computer that is portable and uses magnetic bubble memory. It runs the CP/M operating system.

Hey everyone, Ben here. I’ve been working on a game for the TI-99/4A, and sprite editing for the TMS9918 has been one of the bigger early challenges. I wanted something that handled 8x8 and 16x16…