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Commodore 8 Bit Programming • SPEED TEST: Simons' BASIC vs. C128 BASIC vs. Vision BASIC

Commodore.ca about 2 days ago

Retro Old Guy has released a new video comparing Simons' BASIC with C128 BASIC and Vision BASIC:https://www.youtube.c... a mismatch clearance sale over at the Vision BASIC website, where they're practically giving away a few cop …
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Random: This Mega Drive / Genesis Clone Looks Like An N64, Because Why Not

Time Extension about 4 days ago

Say hello to the Songa Mega Drive 3.We still see hilariously bad clone systems these days, but back in the '90s, the sheer volume of ropey imitations that flowed from the Far East was a sight to behold.There were countless Famicom / NES replications with o …
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PC 486SX (ao486) • QNX 4.25 (Unix-like OS) on ao486

MISTerFPGA about 8 days ago

Hello community,Preliminary notes:QNX is a Unix-like microkernel real-time OS, primarily targeted for embedded devices and which some of you might remember for its amazing 1.44 MB floppy demo from mid '90s sporting a fully bootable OS, GUI, mouse support, …

CICS, Middleware and MQ Series. • What are CICS web services?

zMainframes about 11 days ago

Hi,I have a very basic question on CICS web-services, what are CICS Web Services? What is that thing which we could not do if they were not available to us?I looked at documentation but that does not seem to answer this question specifically or I seem not …
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Another Heist for the Steamworld Crew

Portable Gaming Roundup about 24 days ago

Swedish developers Steamworld Games delight with every release and the quirky, rusty bunch of space pirate robots in Steamworld Heist definitely deserve another adventure. Step forward Heist II with an aquatic feel and an August release date for Steam …
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Mortal Kombat Is Getting A Fanmade Jaguar Port Over 30 Years Later

Time Extension about 1 month ago

Update: A pre-Alpha build is now available via Patreon.Update : TRU FUN Games has released a pre-alpha version of its fanmade port of Mortal Kombat to members of its Patreon (for backers at its TRU Tester level).The build contains the seven original fighte …

Software • A good terminal emulator?

Tatung Forum about 1 month ago

I'm not sure when I developed a masochistic need to "keep things authentic" and avoid sensible solutions like goteks, but now with a homebrew serial cable and EinTrans happily running under Wine in Windows 98 mode I am able to create some disks for my Alb …

Why Do I Suck So Bad at Super Turbo?

Neo Geo Forums about 2 months ago

I can barely get a 3-win spree in against the computer, and even then I’m not pulling off combos / cancels - just basic specials. Even when I put in a credit for 2P and the other guy is just standing still it’s hard to pull off something as basic as ju …

General • Time to cash out

Tatung Forum about 2 months ago

Basic TC-01 not even certain the disk works £440+£20 p&phttps://www.ebay.co.... baby's going nowhere, but it's an incentive to get my spare working.Statistics: Posted by Preppie — Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:59 pm — Replies 7 — Views …
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Hardware hacks and extensions • CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

Defence Force about 2 months ago

As I hit a milestone this week, I thought it would be an appropriate time to share my little Oric project: Working title «CUmini» - my take on emulated storage expansion for the Orics. When I stumbled into the Oric universe laste last year while helpin …

General Discussion • Help wanted

Defence Force about 2 months ago

While browsing through some software I've got I've come across a program that I've not seen anywhere but while it seems to run OK i am not able to get any were its in basic so its easy to see the programming but that's it . It says there's only two key co …
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Duck Hunt Gets Pocket-Sized Demake For The Game Boy

Time Extension about 2 months ago

The NES classic reimagined for Game Boy.If you've ever wondered what it might have looked like if Nintendo had made a version of its 1984 shooter Duck Hunt for the Nintendo Game Boy, then you need to look no further than Duck Hunt GB — a new homebrew gam …

Hardware • Another TC-01 back to life

Tatung Forum about 2 months ago

I thought I should say hello after lurking for a while.I bought a twin drive TC-01 (is that a TC-02?) while visiting family in the UK last year. It had the usual "blank display, no alpha-lock" symptoms, so having waited for it to be shipped back home to …

General Discussion • Oh no! No Oric entry in this years 10 line BASIC ..

Defence Force about 2 months ago

.. competition? Statistics: Posted by ibisum — Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:56 pm — Replies 0 — Views 193 …

C programming • Launch c program with parameters

Defence Force about 2 months ago

Hi!Is there a way to launch a CC65 compiled program with parameters ?For example, suppose I compiled a program called "ED" to edit some text file on the disk. If I want to call "ED" with a parameter giving the name of the text file to be loaded, like "ED …

Tetris for the Atari 8-Bit by Eric Carr entered into the BASIC 10Liner Contest 2024

Indie Retro News about 2 months ago

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March 2024 issue of TRS8BIT

VCFed about 2 months ago

The March 2024 issue of TRS8BIT is now available from the downloads page at http://www.fabsitesuk.com/t... 73rd. issue has the first news of the 2024 competition from George Phillips. There are articles from Ian Mavric on replacing Co …

Microdata 3200 Info?

VCFed about 2 months ago

So we recently acquired an old Microdata 3200, which has 2 power supplies (not sure if either work) and the "maintenance panel" (i.e. not the basic panel). It has 2 separate 8K RAM cards, and we think it's complete but the card names are sli …
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USB to Apple //c, //c+, and Apple bus mouse card adapter

Apple Fritter about 2 months ago

I built a small pilot run for testing, and have a few extra available. So far, I have tested these on an Apple bus mouse card, //c, and //c+. The converter will support wired mice, or USB wireless mouse receivers. This is for quadrature mouse input funct …

CBM PET 710 WITH BASIC PROBLEMS

VCFed about 2 months ago

Good evening everyone, how are you? I've been missing from the forum for a while because I've been away from retrocomputers for a while. I bought an old Cbm Pet 710, I replaced the two Rifa capacitors in the power supply, because they had burned …

Games • Loading tape games from disk

Defence Force about 3 months ago

I remember I asked this question a long long time ago, but could not find the thread with the answer, so I'm going to ask here again.Assuming a Microdisc or Jasmin drive and the access to the overlay memory, and a single load game, what I'd like to do is: …

Apple II+ character ROM

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi everyone, Yesterday I bought an Apple II plus, it is a European model, but the label is for a regular plus, not the europlus. Possibly an early model? But unfortunately, it is missing the character ROM. It is a rev 4 board, so it uses a 2513 ROM inst …

Fandom Journey Game Apple I

Apple Fritter about 3 months ago

AttachmentSize Fandom Journey Apple1.txt1.01 KB Fandom Journey Apple IJump to navigationJump to searchThis is a Textual adventure game for the Apple I i have programmed from my SAGA of Fandom.... This is a continum.Copy paste this code in Apple I …

ST11R in an IBM 5170

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi -- When I attempt to use my ST11R RLL controller card in my IBM 5170, during POST the card appears "Seagate ST11 BIOS Revision 2.0.0".... then "This bios is not compatible with the system bios." It will hang there for a couple minu …

Change ProDOS file type to SYS

Apple Fritter about 3 months ago

So I've written a small 65C02 assembler program that I want to change from BIN to SYS.  It is assembled (with my cross assembler) at $2000, and I can run it from the BASIC.SYSTEM command line or BITSY BYE. Anyway, what is the easiest way to change a file …