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Arcade Cores • Bomb Jack Test

MISTerFPGA about 6 months ago

So, as suggested by a couple of folks over on another thread, I decided to take a look at Bomb Jack and see what may be wrong.First, I have to say that the core is written pretty well and follows the schematics pretty faithfully so it was a challenge to t …
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The Source Code For Infocom's Amazing Code-Porting Tools Has Now Been Preserved

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Thanks to the interactive fiction designer Andrew Plotkin.Earlier this month, a bunch of source code for Infocom's code-porting tools was finally preserved online, thanks to the efforts of influential interactive fiction designer and industry figure Andrew …
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New Releases • Free Release - Tristam Island by Hugo Labrannded just Updated Minimum Price to $0.00

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

https://hlabrande.itch.io/... Author:After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is th …

UNCLE BERNIE'S IOU (and MMU) SUBSTITUTES IN PLDs

Apple Fritter about 6 months ago

Hi fans -may may have followed the work done by two people on substituting the MMU, see here: https://www.applefri... those who don't know yet, the MMU and the IOU are full custom ICs in DIL-40 p …

Ralle Palaveev VGA card boards arrived today

Apple Fritter about 6 months ago

This is similar to the Vince Briel version of the card, but supposedly with some additional capabilities.https://github... couple of things I've noticed about the card compared to the Briel version.  The resistor layout on this on …
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Serial IEC Disk Drive Interface

Apple Fritter about 6 months ago

Dear Friends,it is with great pleasure that @nippur72 and I share with you our latest project (actually, more his effort than mine, I just soldered some component...). As some of you had guessed: this is a microSD Storage Card add-on module that allows yo …
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General • Buddy 64 Memory Map

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

Hi there, I was looking at the manual for Buddy 64/128 by Chris Miller 1990. I have two questions, first, what are things to look for when trying to determine to location where a program resided in the C64 memory. Chris gives a little more information at …
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A Fanmade Enhanced Edition Of Icewind Dale II Has Just Been Released

Time Extension about 6 months ago

This one is PC-only we're afraid!Back in 2014, the developer Beamdog released Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, a well-received remake of the Black Isle Studios-developed RPG from the year 2000, which added new content, widescreen support, and other cool fea …

Looking for a basic BIOS source code for a 80188

VCFed about 7 months ago

In the old days you had the CP/M cartridges for the Commodore 64. Too make a long story short, this inspired to create a 80188 cartridge that you stick in the expansion port of the C64. And I need a BIOS for it. I'm very familiar with the 8088, including p …

8-bit acorn hardware • Private and Hidden Objects on Econet File Servers

Stardot about 7 months ago

As far as I know, there isn't a way to hide an object on an Acorn Level 2 or Level 3 file server from a logged-on user. Any user can see a catalogue of everything on the file server from $ downwards, and enter all directories to catalogue or examine them …
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8-bit acorn software: other • ChatGPT client for 8-bit Acorn computers

Stardot about 7 months ago

I got the idea for this client from a message where someone wrote such a client for a Mac Classic, working under Mac OS 7 / 8 / 9. The only thing he uses is a proxy server because these computers do not support HTTPS. speak. Well, I actually have the same …
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Wizard of Wor (C64) early build

Games That Weren't about 7 months ago

A small post on an earlier build of Wizard of Wor that has been highlighted to us by Roberto Nicoletti. Some years ago, Jeff Bruette released all of the source code to the game, which was then very carefully compiled … Continue reading → …
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Other 8-bit Commodore computers • New Release - Roguish by Marco Giorgini

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

After years of research, you've found the entrance to Goblin Mountain, and now more gold and jewels lie before you than you can possibly imagine. Oh yes, the mountain is full of goblins too, and they won't let you take their treasures without a fight, but …
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Internal Nintendo files that surfaced in 2020 included parts of the original source code for Super…

Supper Mario Broth about 7 months ago

Internal Nintendo files that surfaced in 2020 included parts of the original source code for Super Mario Bros.Comments on the code reveal that the game contains an enemy called “??? <- dammy ???” internally (a misspelling of “dummy&rdq …

Other Computer / System Cores • Atari800 core and Covox sound device

MISTerFPGA about 8 months ago

While exploring the source code of this core to learn a 'lil bit about VHDL (but this still way beyond my scope), I found out that they've also implemented the Covox sound device without further notice. This brings a great new sound experience to this cor …

32-bit acorn hardware • Pi400 and ARM laptops

Stardot about 9 months ago

Hi! I've ordered Pi400 today. They claim that RISC OS is officially supported, but is it the best way for running RISC OS today? What about laptops?I want to port my programming language and a few apps in it from x86 to ARM (there is a bit of machine code …
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The New GKD Pixel Aims To Take The Micro Device Crown

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

The new GKD Pixel has its sights set on the micro device crown, aggressively coming at the Anbernic RG Nano‘s neck. The teasers from GKD about the Pixel have been slow. Starting with appropriately pixelated photos, hiding most of the handheld. …

32-bit acorn software: other • Socketeer

Stardot about 9 months ago

Hi all,Has anyone got a copy of Socketeer -- especially the source code -- saved anywhere?It looks like it was initially developed by Matthew Bloch (soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk / soup-kitchen.net), then later taken over by Andy Carter, Alex Waugh and Geoff Y …

Help needed with writing an AIL/32 driver: dummy driver works in ASM, but not in C

VCFed about 9 months ago

Hi. As many of you know, John Miles released the source code to his Audio Interface Library (AIL) drivers some years ago. He also released the source code to the AIL/32 protected mode variant of those drivers, which are used in a number of protected mode …

Z80 assembler/debugger with CP/M system

VCFed about 9 months ago

Hi All, I recently made a BIOS program for the RC2014 system and created an assembler/debugger to develop this. This BIOS is for running CP/M on the system (which was already done before but for educational purposes it was fun to make my own). The assem …

NES DuckTales Has Unofficially Been Ported To The SNES

Digital Press about 9 months ago

Quote: The classic retro video game DuckTales for the NES has been ported over to the SNES by a skilled romhacker. The particular romhacker in question is one that should be familiar to Retro Dodo readers. It is our friend Infidelity NES, who …
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A tiny self-hosted Forth (and an interesting Basic too)

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

A particular (interesting) tiny self-hosted Forth, by Kragen Javier Sitaker: GitHub GitHub - kragen/stoneknifeforth: a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation. Contribute t …
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new projects in development: games • [RISC OS] PowerMonger

Stardot about 9 months ago

I've been working on a little prototype of the game PowerMonger (Bullfrog/EA) that came out on ST/Amiga/PC and several other formats. Even if you didn't play the game, you could watch little people just going about, fishing, farming, etc. and it was just …
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Epson QX-16 DOS 2.11 source code found

VCFed about 10 months ago

I ended up getting my hands on a couple of QX-16 harddrives recently and was able to image them using my MFM emulator to dump the drives. One wasn't really that interesting, but the other one appears to have come from a system that was used by Epson of Ame …
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General • Microtown BBS is back

Lemon64 about 10 months ago

I am not sure if I missed the window or not when everyone was interested in the old BBS systems again. I was recently able to get my bbs Microtown back up and running. It is a bit of a time machine as it is pretty much the same state it was when it was …