Arudino StereoSID emulates the SID sound chip of the famous Commodore 64. It is based on the Atmega8 MOS6581 SID Emulator from Christoph Haberer. Library conversion and memory optimization by Mario Patino. Stereo Effect by Giovanni Giorgi

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After a bunch of years, I am happy to announce StereoSID 2.0.6 is here to stay. It spots a new sid_player example and some optimization on the I2C implementation. https://github.com/daitangio/sid-arduino-lib

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The ZilogZ80 CPU is an 8-bit based microprocessor. It was introduced by Zilog in 1976 as the startup company's first product. The Z80 was conceived by Federico Faggin in late 1974. The Z80 was software compatible (!) with the Intel 8080 machine language. It added several extensions and was the heart of the ZX Spectrum.

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year One: 1980 - Paleotronic Magazine A sticky post for Dicember 2018

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When I was young I was able to play with my Vic20/Commodore64. I learned to love programming with these small 8-bit real computers. I was between 11 and 12 years old, and just learning basic English, with only a data-casette to store my stuff.

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Ok this is a bit embarassing!

Even in 2019, there is a IDE for C/64 which is still mantained! C64 Studio is a full .NET IDE which can connect to [Win]Vice for debugging.

It seems Deutsche guys are very strong on C/64 Developmenet on these days….

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Michael Steil just published a repository you can actually USE to hack C64 Kernal and ROM. A nice idea you can play with using VICE emulator…

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Hi all! I decided to write a book called “8-Bit Computers: Retro computer history in the ‘80”. It is my first book on this topic, so I need you comments & advices! A small extract is right here for download.

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The first draft of my book is here! Take a look to http://8bit.gioorgi.com/

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This is a VGA library for ESP8266. To use this library you need only 1 resistor and one DSUB15 connector. VGA signal generation based on https://github.com/hchunhui/esp-vga (thanks for your awesome works). [....]

The library implement a 512x480px framebuffer with 1bpp, where each pixel is stored as a single bit. The framebuffer is stored inside RAM and require 30720 bytes.

https://github.com/smaffer/espvgax

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