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Shown here is FujiNet 5 Card Stud being played across multiple retro computing and retro gaming platforms.

Shown here, a software engineer at Roklan spends his evening doing a build and test of GORF for the Intellivision, to be sold by CBS Electronics. The purpose of the piece is to vis…

For the first time in more than 40 years, we are able to see the ATARI CAMAC Cross Assembler working in an emulated Data General MV/8000 environment, where we assemble a copy of DI…

We are working on a version for the ZX Spectrum that connects via the expansion bus. This work is part of a much larger push to create a generic bus interface. If you can help, ple…

FujiNet is a multi-function network adapter. It was initially developed for the Atari 8-bit systems, but we started adapting its firmware, and building other hardware versions for …

The web client can be used on any system with a suitable web browser. Press the orange button on the website. :)

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This video shows off what became of Island Graphics ProPaint, for the Commodore Amiga. The Professional version of Commodore GraphiCraft. It became Aegis Images. It has some unique…

As the speaker in question here, I wish to reply. I am formally apologizing for minimizing the question. It was not my intention to be derogatory. But to formally address your ques…

In this #retrocomputing #archaeology series video, we show how the tools at #ATARI coin-op worked, in-context. We modify Centipede, assemble, link, and create new EPROMs with our c…

This video shows the process of doing gamedev using other, larger systems to develop software for the Atari 2600 and 5200 game consoles using a cross assembler. This example contra…

I made a very in-depth video that shows 86-DOS version 0.11 being used in-context to port a piece of code from CP/M-80 2.2, to 86-DOS using RDCPM, TRANS, and the ASM. I also direct…

I recently published a paper detailing the process of creating brand new digital data packs for the Coleco Adam computer, without the need for a donor cassette.

After many weeks of work, I've now released a comprehensive deep dive into video the ColecoVision Adam Computer. It is not meant to be watched all the way through, but rather used …

I needed an extremely simple battery meter for my minimal Arch Linux X11 environment on my Thinkpad T61, so I wrote one in raw Xlib.

Were some games for the #ColecoVision written in #Pascal? Instead of speculation, Let's validate this assertion by using a quick tool I wrote to check for calls to the #Pascal rout…