The build of Ambermoon.net for Ambermoon has been updated to version v1.13.1 of the project

ADJUSTING THE MACHINE TO CORRECTLY SELECT CHARACTERS FOR PRINTING There are two aspects to adjusting the Selectric mechanism correctly for printing characters - tension on the two metal tapes and…

Unique sample Famicom cartridge of Super Mario Bros. that surfaced from a private collection and is believed to be the earliest known copy of the game, if not potentially a master copy that was used…

There are Amiga projects that make you nod respectfully. There are Amiga projects that make you raise an eyebrow. And then there are Amiga projects that make you check the…

With former PR manager Glen O’Connell The post Inside Psygnosis: WipEout, PlayStation and the Rave Generation – The Retro Hour EP531 appeared first on Retro Hour Podcast.

Jan Beta tests A1200.net’s new Amiga mechanical keyboard, covering custom switches, USB output, original keycaps, and A1200 fit. The post Amiga Mechanical Keyboard Gets a Production Preview from Jan…

Root42 repairs and services a Commodore CBM 4040 dual floppy drive rescued from a German school. The video shows fault finding, cleaning, lubrication, motor work, and final disk tests. The post CBM…

Byte Nov ‘88 (special edition issue) via Vintageapple.org We’re doing it folks. We’re diving into one of the most infamous computer advertising rabbit holes of all time: Gateway 2000.  It will…

Now my retro programming IDE has Atari ST and Amiga VBCC compiler support, I figured it was time to return to the programming in C tutorials for these systems. The post Programming the Amiga and…

A legendary 1980s franchise has returned to the Commodore 64 with the release of Impossible Mission 3. This surprise sequel that has been eagerly awaited for sometime in the C64 community, is a…

Released on various platforms by Alternative Software in the late 1980s and early 1990s, The Munsters was a licence of the famous American TV show and was a typical 2D flick screen adventure affair…

Over the weekend I read a comment, I think it was on Hacker News, where someone said they were having fun building things using AI. This was in response to someone saying that using AI took the fun…

They said it couldn't be done! They said it violated all the laws of nature and physics! But Steve DeGaetano has found four more postcards relating to the Knott's Berry Farm railroad. Will this be…

Learn how to configure FreeDOS with FDCONFIG.SYS

This WonderSwan exclusive asks me to take control of an adorably harried love ninja, here to help ordinary humans, aliens, …

It’s coming up this month to the 91st anniversary of Jesse Owens’s remarkable achievement of establishing six world records on the one afternoon at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His long jump…

Seventy years ago this month, the May 1956 issue of QST featured what it dubbed the first all-transistor amateur-band receiver, handsomely housed in this 10 x 5-1/2 x 3 inch cabinet. Designed by Carl…

From the January 1926 issue of Electrical Merchandising .

By 1975, every researcher at Xerox PARC had a personal computer on their desk — something almost nobody else in the world could say. The Alto, first operational in 1973, fit under a standard table,…

My first contact with a computer was the Children’s Club, back in like 3rd grade. We had some Romanian-made Spectrum clones, manufactured at the now-defunct company ICE Felix, and they were…

CONSOLE PRINTER FROM SSM'S 1130 BROKE ITS TAPES I received the console printer (1053, a Selectric mechanism driven by the computer) as the rotate and tilt tapes had broken when it was being used at…

At my day job, I run a RE mentorship. It’s a simple process for me. I have a link to the task, and the user emails me the answers to the questions in the task. If their answers are correct, I send…

Sometime back I gave you the heads up about a new alpha demo of 'Rastan' that was made available by basementApe for the Commodore Amiga. Well fast forward to today and if you're hoping for some new…

My introduction to console gaming was at my grandparents’ house. I’m not sure how old I was — maybe 5? But my grandfather, who always loved technology, had a Sega Master System, and one day he was…

There’s some fun stuff here if you have the time to dig. Moppetry. Muppets plus D&D. (via) Using A VT-100 Today. That reminds me, I have a VT-320 in the basement that I need to hook up.…

The Planets by Anastasia Trekles released in 1998

Seventy-five years ago this month, the May 1951 issue of the British Practical Mechanics carried this important warning about using compressed gasses. Always check and make sure you have the right…

Today I'm releasing my Game Boy game called Marbles² (or Marbles Squared). It's a port of a game that I originally wrote back in 2002, but is a game that started in my life in (or around) 1996. The…

At the end of January, I pre-ordered my first 3D printer, an Anycubic Kobra X, and used the waiting time to look for an open-source (or free for non-commercial use) CAD application, as well as…

i wrote a snake clone for the game boy advance in ARM assembly!

kingbatter: current mood: half life 1 gman

That was perhaps the most gratifying compliment we heard on day 1 of the exhibition organised by the FR in Porthmadog today as we took Minffordd to the spiritual homeland for the first time, and…

Owen Bishop: Das Commodore-64-Spiele-Buch Frankfurt/M.: Commodore, 1984. (Commodore-Sachbuchreihe, Bd. 4) ISBN 3-89133-002-2. (162 pages, 29 MB) Aus dem Englischen übertragen von Gudrun Breiter.…

This post is a follow-up to part 1 of my adventure in reverse engineering a unique file format present in early Unreal Engine titles. In particular, it looks at Splinter Cell 1 for the original Xbox…

Intro I've recently been spending quite a bit of time working on Rust support for legacy 32-bit ARM architectures. Not in the compiler - that work was done in LLVM long ago, and rustc can just take…

A Sony PSP-2000 is a 333 MHz MIPS handheld from 2007 with 64 MB of RAM. Mine, this week, runs a 15-million-parameter Transformer and streams English text onto the LCD at one to two tokens per second.

A nice slogan for a t-shirt! Bit long, maybe…

I was introduced to a thing called the 'internet' in a pub in Edmonton after a softball game in 1988 or so. We philosophy students had gathered there after losing another game and some of the others…

A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about the 1990 Macintosh game Dubbelmoral! (“Double standard!”), which was the official game of the venerable Lund Carnival that year (and I later made a post on…

Before astronauts wore mission patches, they had their call signs painted on the side of their spacecraft. That "nose art" was short lived, ending after the six flights of the Mercury program, the…

Yet another lost Commodore 16/Plus 4 title from Mastertronic, and this time in the shape of Los Angeles S.W.A.T - which sort of splits opinion with the Commodore 64 edition that was released. Some…

In this episode I talk about a Kickstarter for a fold up arcade machine that transforms into a piece of furniture, Steve Jobs immortalised on a really awful looking $1 coin, Sega Saturn MiSTer core…

How to emulate an Atari YM2149 audio chip on Amiga at litteraly 0 CPU cost, by Arnaud Carré - Audience This post is for anyone who loves the technical and historical aspects of chiptune music, as…

(00:00) Previous episode on local networking and off-line tooling (00:37) Ameridroid Sponsor - Linuxprepper at checkout (01:20) Battlestations, and how they relate to Linux Prepper (02:35) Your input…

My battery is low and it's getting dark.

Kavic Marabush's Pocket Guide to Computers archive

What an amazing website. Explore Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons like it's a Win XP desktop. I'm so impressed with how well the creator nailed the vibe. It really feels like using a 25 year old file…

I wasn't even shopping for a Game Boy Pocket. I was looking for a good deal on a Game Boy Camera. The best price I saw at the time was an auction for a bundle that included the Camera and a pair of…

Hello Garmin, My Old Friend – Edge 705 Bike Computer While rooting through my GPS container I stumbled across my old pal, the Garmin Edge 705 Bike Computer. First released in 2007 it remains a…