VICE is a conglomerate of Commodore 8-bit emulators. For the inexperienced user looking to do some retro-gaming from those wildly popular machines from the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s, it can be a daunting and frustrating task to operate those “friendly” computers. Particularly because you had varying-sized game cartridges, floppy software, cassette software, and [...]
Running VICE
Mar 13
Berzerk MMX
Mar 5
Today, I release another arcade classic clone for the venerable Commodore VIC 20. This time it is based on the 1980 Stern hit, Berzerk. It did not take 24-years to complete like Quikman possessed me, just a mere couple of months between commuter rail rides and some weekend tinkering. Still, it came out pretty good [...]
During the Amiga heyday in the early 1990s, I wrote a standalone BBS program called ‘Hack & Slash’. It was a port from an Apple ][ BASIC program, but heavily customized and enhanced using C and “modern” telecommunications and protocols for color, graphics, and sound.
I thought I was really clever at the time writing my [...]
PS3 Media Server
Feb 14
I discovered a nifty project, PMS, written in JAVA that allows my Linux (or Windows) workstation stream multimedia (music, photos, movies) to my Sony Playstation 3, hooked-up for viewing in all of its 52″ HDTV glory. It also includes several options to stream other multimedia content directly from the web, too, such as YouTube, Internet [...]
8-bit New Additions
Feb 7
This week marked the arrival of some more toys for my 1980s computer collection. This time they are for the Commodore “educational” line of home computers: C16 and Plus/4. What was remarkable about these two models — that succeeded only in production date to the popular VIC 20 and C64 and not in marketing & [...]
