My Latest Catch

Since I have moved from Germany to Malaysia, my collection of old games and systems grows a lot slower. However, I managed to get an ATARI 520 STfm for RM 125 (~ 30 Euro). It came with SC1224 color screen and Megafile 30 harddrive. Unfortunately the harddrive cable and the mouse was missing. An original ...

Steve Jobs introducing the Macintosh in 1984

Currently I am reading an biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs. About two years back, I already read iWoz, the autobiography of the other part of the famous Apple duo. The difference between both books is the fact, that there actually is no authorized biography of Steve Jobs. It seem he doesn’t like to be ...

Publikationen in der AMIGA Spezial

Emulatoren sind wohl die Programme, die eine Vielzahl von neuen Möglickeiten zu eröffnen scheinen, aber eher eine Vielzahl von neuen Enttäuschungen hervorrufen. Über Sinn und Zweck von Emulatoren wurde auch schon viel Diskutiert, der der Programmieraufwand und somit der Preis ist kein geringer. Hier soll nun, nach erscheinden des “C64 Emulators” und des “Transformer” , ...

A story to tell your children…

Once upon a time, in the Valley of Silicon, the two headed Wizard of Apples went for a walk. The two heads, both of which were named Steve, looked around, and spied a beautiful PARC.“This is truly a beautiful PARC~ Steve exclaimed.Yes, it is’ agreed Steve. “It is very graphic. And do you see how ...

Retro Pearls on Android

It has been a while, since I wrote my last posting and I have to apologize. Right now I am sitting in a hotel in Beijing and enjoying a day off. So no work to do and no family, I have to pay attention to, taking the opportunity writing something I kept in mind already ...

Who was Gary Kildall?

Recenty I stumpled multipe times upon a certain name. It was Gary Kildall. Gary was the one, who founded Digital Research. The company who was well known for its operating  system CP/M, designed for smaller computers. In a time where mainframes were more common, than a personal computer. Some people might rember DR DOS, which ...

Anleitung MMC2IEC

Mehr zu meiner eigenen Referenz und Bequemlichkeit hier die Anleitung zu MMC2IEC. Die Projekt-Webseite findet ihr hier. USAGE GUIDE: ------------ The MMC2IEC device implements accessing FAT16/32 filesystems on MMC or SD flash media. The CBM IEC protocol is implemented and the kernel load and save routines on the C64 works, loading from either PRG, D64 ...

Happy new Year!

Yes, its 2010, the year where I hopefully spent more time on the projects, I am writing about here in my blog. No real progress with Lincade development, but its on my todo, to finalise the changes to the image and release one with SATA and updated Kernel. Recently I spend some time for my ...

Slow progress, still tied up with web projects

I already feel sad, since the move to Malaysia, not much time was left for my blog and the Lincade project. For the blog I decided to post more related to retro and interesting computer stuff, like in the past. Last months in germany, it became more and more a Lincade Blog, which should be ...

Lincade development continues

Despite a lack of time, the development will be continued by me and John. We had an email conversation about a roadmap and the goals for the next version. One bigger issue to deal with, is that the development of advmame was stopped already a while ago. We might switch to SDLmame and try to ...