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Hiroshi Yamauchi Talks 64DD In Newly Translated 1997 Conference

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"The domestic video game market is clearly losing steam".Last year, while working on a feature about the Making of Mario Artist: Paint Studio, we contacted the Japanese-to-English translator Liz Bushouse to help translate some materials related to the 64DD …
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Hiroshi Yamauchi Talks About The 64DD In Newly Translated Press Conference From 1997

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"The domestic video game market is clearly losing steam".Last year, while working on a feature about the Making of Mario Artist: Paint Studio, we contacted the Japanese-to-English translator Liz Bushouse to help translate some materials related to the 64DD …
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The Making Of: Witchwood, Team17's Abandoned Zelda Rival

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"We were trying to be better than Zelda with the little things".In 1994, the Wakefield-based developer and publisher Team17 revealed that it was working on a Legend of Zelda-style RPG called Witchwood. The game, which followed a young adventurer battling a …
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Unique high-quality illustration of Baby Bowser’s castle, found only in the 1998 German official…

Supper Mario Broth about 4 months ago

Unique high-quality illustration of Baby Bowser’s castle, found only in the 1998 German official guide for Yoshi’s Story. It appears to be a colorful, much more high-resolution version of the game’s Game Over screen background.Main Blog | …

off-topic • Strange printing error

Stardot about 4 months ago

I have recently bought a second hand copy of this book: https://archive.org/details... ... c/mode/2upRight at the start it discusses colour and dividing a colour image into primary colours and colour separations. In the copy I have some of the pr …

86-DOS / QDOS version 0.1c disk image posted on archive.org!

VCFed about 4 months ago

This is until now the oldes known version of 86-DOS / QDOS, download here (Serial number 11!). But the image is 8 inch 250 kb so I don't think you get it to run on an IBM compatible PC. Other versions of 86-DOS: 0.34 klick klick 1.0 klick and extracted …
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The Making Of: Steel Battalion, The Ultimate Hardcore Mecha Experience

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"I felt this anger against the entire industry. You're all just making the same old shit"."What are you talking about? Are you trying to insinuate that I flooded a hotel room? That's outrageous!" bellows Hifumi Kouno, in pseudo-offence that gives way to ra …
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11 Unseen Prototypes From Cancelled Vectorman PS2 Project Surface Online

Time Extension about 5 months ago

The game was being developed by Pseudo Interactive.CombyLaurent — a Swiss video game preservationist whose work we've covered in the past — has recently announced that they have managed to archive 11 prototypes of a cancelled Vectorman PS2 game that wo …
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Ancient DOS

VCFed about 5 months ago

Very interesting article . . . ... known version of DOS unearthed – MS-DOS ancestor 86-DOS version 0.1 C is now available on the Internet Archive Disk contains just ni …
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Monarch MP/M-II for Dynabyte computers...

VCFed about 5 months ago

Here's a complete distribution of Monarch MP/M-II for Dynabyte S-100 machines. I don't know what the actual disk controller/console controller requirements are: ... Monarch MP/M II Re …
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Earliest known copies of 86-DOS...

VCFed about 5 months ago

This past week I've been imaging disks in my 8" disk collection and I came across two awesome artifacts: ... DOS Version 0.1 C Serial # 11 ( ORIGINAL DISK) : Seattle Computer Products …

How to write a floppy disk from an image file on a Compaq Portable III?

VCFed about 5 months ago

I have a Compaq Portable III and the system defaults to 1.2MB floppy drive after losing its settings (replace the battery for the clock chip DS1285). I would like to have a bootable Diagnostic floppy for a Compaq Portable III (286 CPU), for which I have d …

MAGAZINE C16 / MSX - G.E International Education ITALY (2 replies)

Generation MSX about 5 months ago

MAGAZINE C16 / MSX - Gruppo Editoriale International Education Number 7 [archive.org] downl... …

32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • MEMC and RISC iX

Stardot about 5 months ago

Previously, there was some discussion of the MEMC's virtual memory management architecture, mixed into a thread about Motorola where it was only tangentially relevant. I was thinking about this again recently, considering the remarks made by reviewers abo …

8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • High Score Challenge Nominations - Season 22

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi Folks,Welcome to season 22....all right then......Please post your 3 chosen games using the guidelines below and submit them in this thread. Please ensure the game exists online (I'll continue posting so that you can download from the Complete BBC Gam …

New member introduction

VCFed about 5 months ago

Just joined for the forum. Used to be on the mailing list over 20 years ago when VCF just started. I've got a pretty extensive collection of computers, probably around 100 that I plan to scale down somewhat. I used to have a computer museum at www.nothin …
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A Return to Arcade Odyssey

The Arcade Blogger about 5 months ago

My recent trip to the USA allowed me some time to check out a few arcades, specifically one of my favourites in Miami, FL. The last time I reviewed Arcade Odyssey, was a good five years ago. You can check that out here. The upshot I concluded back then, w …

32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Hard disc image of RISCiX backup on archive.org

Stardot about 5 months ago

I stumbled across this this other day https://archive.org/details... and interest got the better of me. It's a backup from around 1993. It has quite a lot of potentially interesting things on it, including early versions of bash and a couple of web s …
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Stuntman Seymour – Amiga version recovered

Yolkfolk.com about 5 months ago

... really Dizzy-related as such, but its still eggcellent news.Games That Weren’t have been given the unreleased Amiga version of “Stuntman Seymour” by Ash Hogg.“Stuntman …
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miscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Polymer Picker v1.11 (festive edition)

Stardot about 5 months ago

Inspired by Colin Hoad's festive romp through the BBC Games Archive on his Youtube channel, I failed miserably at resisting the urge to create a festive version of Polymer Picker.So, after fighting tooth and nail through plastic wrapping, broken baubles, …
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Random: Have You Seen This Rare Early Footage Of Space Harrier?

Time Extension about 5 months ago

It shows the game back when it originally featured a jet instead of a human.Sega's iconic 1985 arcade rail shooter Space Harrier is known today for its science-fiction and fantasy-like elements, including flying dragons, one-eyed mammoths, and giant robots …

For sale: ROM-Win 8bit ISA boot card with NT4.0

VCFed about 5 months ago

Model RW-XT-001, boots Windows NT4.0 in japanese. More infos on the official website: Wayback Machine ROM-WIn support page Asking 30€ plus shipping fees. Shipping worldwide. …
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Yolkfolk News – Dec 2023

Yolkfolk.com about 5 months ago

... fellow adventurers.2023 has been an interesting year on the Dizzy side of things, with this very site’s 25th Anniversary, the Fan Games released and the recent Charity Stream by RoseTintedSpec …
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TRS-80 Pocket Computer WAV, BAS, IMG - 26-3530 Horse Race Analyst Software Package

VCFed about 5 months ago

I came upon a boxed copy of this, which I couldn't find posted online - so I took the opportunity to capture and archive it. ... Pocket Computer Horse Race Analyst : Radio Shack : Fre …

Cromemco Software Update Service Notes for Z80 Cromix

VCFed about 5 months ago

More documents from my cleanout. Cromemco Software Update Service Note for Z80 Cromix covering release 9 to 11.05 I also have notes on the CDOS simulator These will be scanned and head to The Internet Archive. …