A few years ago, I experienced a water leak in my basement after several consecutive days of heavy rain. To prevent the moisture from damaging them, I brought a couple of items home. One of these i…| Oldcomputr.com
…or did I NOT pimp it at all?! Intro If you read my blog a bit longer, then you might remember that some time ago, I’ve started Pimp my Ami series. So far, only one such post was written -> Pimp my Ami #1 – Fluo <- you will find the general idea behind it, […] The post Pimp my Ami #2 – Vanilla A500 for BooM Party appeared first on retrohax.net.| retrohax.net
…or, how to replace your whole game room with one gadget :> Intro Right at the beginning, when the MiSTer FPGA project was released, I bought all the needed components to build my own MiSTer setup. I had to wait in a long queue before I had a while to finally build it. However, it […] The post Using old iPad screens with MiSTer and retro machines appeared first on retrohax.net.| retrohax.net
Here we are with another mouSTer adapter update! This one is huge for us.First things first. I had a major break from blog posting due to...| retrohax.net
After getting the ZX Spectrum port of Lights-Out to a place where I was happy with it, I turned to the Commodore 64 version. This was the very first platform I wrote Lights-Out for, and the initial…| Bumbershoot Software
"Look," says Jane. "I'm a computer program. Run, computer program, run." I still maintain that the 1986 Commodore 128DCR is the best 8-b...| oldvcr.blogspot.com
Last week I implemented a few routines that would operate on a singly-linked list data structure on the Motorola 68000 CPU. Despite dating from 1979, the 68000 instruction set sits well enough with…| Bumbershoot Software
A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's our year to be with my wife's family in regional New South Wal...| oldvcr.blogspot.com
Videotex Software for the Commodore 64| VintageComputer.ca
Wico Boss joystick hax - retrohax.net Some time ago, I received a box from my friend which contained 10 Wico Boss Joysticks.| retrohax.net
It's impressive to me that I've been able to watch Zombies shamble into the pop-culture landscape, lurch past the "played out" label, and become a new, timeless horror genre akin to vampires and werewolves. AMC's The Walking Dead is a cable TV series that premiered in 2010, designed to bring Zombies to the small screen, and was wildly successful in the process. | Video Game History 101
Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]| Paleotronic Magazine
Further to my post about returning Bil Herd’s Commodore 128D sample computer, Bil mentioned that he would send me something as a token of appreciation. I had let him know that I didn’t want anything in return and if it made him feel better, he could send me $1 to seal the deal. He still sent stuff anyway. There was no need but as a collector of historical computing items, I was secretly glad he did anyway 🙂| VintageComputer.ca
I recently learned that a Commodore 128D I acquired in early 2019 was confirmed to be Bil Herd’s. For Commodore enthusiasts, everyone knows Bil was the lead hardware engineer and case designer for the Commodore 128. He was also the lead hardware engineer on several TED series computers including the Commodore 116, Commodore 16, Commodore Plus/4 and the very rare Commodore 264 and 364 models.| VintageComputer.ca
