Retro Computing

HP 42s the BEST calculator and its FAST MODE

November 24, 2020 / English Content, Retro Computing / / Leave a Comment
The HP 42S accompanied me throughout my university career, secretly designed for me some function graphs and with its 7KB alphanumeric also managed to make me keep some secret notes. I bought it on December 5, 1992, paying it 229,000 lire, a year before I started university (about 200€ now considering inflation * ). I …

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Commodore 4194304 is here: Rasperry Pi 400

November 4, 2020 / Retro Computing / , , , , / Leave a Comment
Rasperry Pi Trading announced the RasperryPi 400, a whoppy 1.8 Ghz x 4Gb RAM (about 4096Mb or 4.194.304 Kb) Rasperry in a plastic keyboard case. We just read a teardown, and only the lack of a good mechanical keyboard leave it a bit behind a Commodore 64 :) Please keep in mind Rasperry Pi SD …

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Tic80

September 29, 2020 / Retro Computing / Leave a Comment
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games. https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80 243 forks. 2,568 stars. 157 open issues. Recent commits: Merge pull request #1368 from txgruppi/wren-tic-btn-fixesWren TIC.btn fixes, GitHub Fixed wren's TIC.btn(_)Updated bitmask from 0xf to 0x1f to support 3rd and 4th gamepads, Tarcisio Gruppi Added/fixed wren's TIC.btn(), Tarcisio Gruppi generate pnglibconf.h to …

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Commodore Retro Magic Dream: Pyc64 supports I/O on real emulation

May 17, 2020 / English Content, Retro Computing / , ,
I am happy to announce pyc64 now supports save and load programs on top of real emulation. Irmen point me to the right code to look, and I implemented the fix in the weekend; happy hacking!   Commodore-64 simulator in pure Python https://github.com/irmen/pyc64 6 forks. 45 stars. 1 open issues. Recent commits: imageviewer, Irmen de …

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MacBookPro 2009 & macOS 10.8 save diary

February 23, 2020 / Italian Content, Retro Computing / ,
Nove anni fa, e nove mesi prima della nascita di mio figlio comperai un MacBook Pro mid-2009, da 2.53Ghz con Intel Core 2 Duo (“Penryn” da 2.53 GHz  codice P8700) Oltre a funzionare ancora adesso, ha subito un upgrade con disco SSD Smasung 840 PRO, con un kit molto ben fatto che rimpiazzava il masterizzartore …

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Commander X16: retro magic dream

June 4, 2020 / English Content, IT Featured, Retro Computing / , ,
Some time ago I mentioned the Pyc64 project, a “differently emulated” C/64. There’s a much more ambitious project that’s going under pressure, it’s called Commander X 16. Commander X 16 has been started by David Murray and three other guys. David’s desire was to create an 8-bit computer similar to the C/64 but a little …

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ESP8266 VGA OUTPUT

May 22, 2019 / Esp8266, Retro Computing /
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 …

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Coming soon 8 Bit computers: from 1977 to 1985

June 24, 2019 / Books, English Content, Retro Computing / , , , , / 2 Comments
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. You will be able to buy the Kindle edition for little as € 0,99 by …

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C64 Kernal and ROM Hacking

May 15, 2019 / Retro Computing /
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… Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL Source https://github.com/mist64/c64rom 22 forks. 123 stars. 3 open issues. Recent commits: Makefile: fix checksum generation for basic.bin (#1)The Makefile executes some shell commands to …

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Georg Rottensteiner C64Studio

May 2, 2019 / Retro Computing /
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….