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"Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - With Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser". A YouTube video set to premier on the 8th October. "To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the BBC's premiere of Micro Men, starring Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman, the Centre for Computing History has gathere...

The second Tuesday of every October marks Ada Lovelace Day.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 57416.html

Kim Justice's Top 100 Commodore Amiga Games of All-Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQfX-hP1RQ

"Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - With Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser". A YouTube video set to premier on the 8th October. "To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the BBC's premiere of Micro Men, starring Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman, the Centre for Computing History has gathered...

Retro Island Diskettes 1.5 hour interview with Jim Bagley!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8UdXeTqrFo

There is now an emulator available for the 'Commander X16'. https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator?fbclid=IwAR0nNfO82lKa1SaPgVghf_3WSPBkRAPUEGGIEVXJFvNehwSY6gl7A33TFtk Getting BBC BASIC, or Jonathan Harston's BBC BASIC for the Commodore 64 up and running on the 'Commander X16' would make for a...

Kim Justice's top 100 ZX Spectrum games of all-time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEZvUWdAtA0

Our Sinclair. Amigos Retro Gaming's podcast on the Spectrum side scrolling shooter, Zynaps. One of my favourite games for the Spectrum, with awesome Stephen Crow graphics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gweHG4Q0Lww&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0pbc8SEMS2GrjNFP22IhwElvA6a_Sbwsgg324wjqtzzsC5z9_b2L18ap...

Part three of Adrian Black's superb 'Pet Rescue', where he replaces a bad video RAM chip and fixes the keyboard of his Commodore PET 2001. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4BTfpHOQFk Parts one and two are here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn12tbIg5ec&t=27s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jyuke...

Booting up a 50-year old Apollo Guidance Computer, with Scott Manley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_gP5aF3ys

And a PBS interview with Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ5rangYxng

Just dropped in today to see the game. Nice!! =D> =D> =D> Also downloaded the different versions to see what is changed. Never thought of a progress bar while loading on a Beeb. 8) On BeebEm 4.0a (mac) the music goes mad. Didn't try the game yet on my master. Cheers Sorry to hear that the game musi...

I have made a few small improvements to Planet Nubium, to now reach Version 1.7. The flashing effect when Rocketman crashes now works properly with my SCART to HDMI video converter, and I made some small changes to the formatting of the text in the title page. At the end of each level the score incr...

ExplainingComputers on the brand new and rather wonderful RaspberryPi 4B.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXCjpJasvG0

Here is a Varian73 brochure.

http://s3data.computerhistory.org/broch ... 646135.pdf

The Electron version of Zalaga seemed to run a bit faster and more smoothly than the BBC version. The Elk version runs in Mode 5 as opposed to Mode 2 on the BBC. Maybe the author was able to use the chance to rev the code and the extra memory to improve the feel of the game.

Another Kim Justice video, this time on maybe the greatest piece of bedroom coding ever; Matthew Smith's Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GjTJt40VRY

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Send your name to Mars on NASA's Mars 2020 Rover.

https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send- ... 25rPXumrbw

Why?

As George Mallory said, "Because it is There"

David Murray has posted pictures of prototype hardware for his 'Commander 16' computer. The pictures show his Commodore 64 upgraded with a Gameduino (for video) connected to the C64's user port and dual AY-3-8910 sound chips connected to the machine's expansion bus. The C64 is used for software deve...

Send your name to Mars on NASA's Mars 2020 Rover.

https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send- ... 25rPXumrbw

My old employer, AMD, celebrates it's 50th Anniversary this month. Here is, for us, a famous poster of Jerry Sanders III dressed as Indiana Jones, with a rightly terrified Andy Grove of Intel on the right. Sanders didn't suffer from a lack of self-confidence. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600...

It is odd that there was never a Plus1 cartridge version of Elite. Much of the code could have run in the faster half of the Electron's memory map.

Lazy Game Reviews used a domestic oven to reflow the solder on a 'Barbie' PC 12minutes 30s into this video. Bake at 375degF for 7minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfhmBcBPNyc I quite liked the idea of reflowing the motherboard in the oven, 370 deg F for 7 minutes. Would this fix a Xbox 360 R...

MATTHEW SMITH on Jet Set Willy's 35th Anniversary at PLAY EXPO Manchester 2019 last Saturday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERve4p7 ... OEmYfGbUg0

Trash to Treasure. PART 2 of RetroManCave's restoration of a Dragon 32, when the Dragon comes to life! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUhKTe12v0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3yOtmxaVwjBa4kJ3cNpRoA2nWBREVrg8vuMXwwkrWzrMSvzoOEb9tgc2I PART 1, with Welsh choir music, is here : https://www.youtube.com/...

The Deathbed Vigil and Other Tales of Digital Angst Dave Haynie's handmade documentary shot in the days surrounding the bankruptcy of Commodore International at their headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania. This is an insider's view into the events of 25 years ago to the day. Very much worth wa...

According to Wikipedia, "Commodore declared bankruptcy on April 29, 1994, and ceased to exist."

Quite something to think that was 25 years ago, today.

If you do not have a car, then Ely Cathedral is a short train trip from Cambridge.

Oliver Cromwell's House is also in Ely, although I have never been there.

The Imperial War Museum at Duxford, just to the south of Cambridge, is well worth a visit.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford

THE STORY OF ELITE: A SPACE OPERA

Another (inter)stellar video from Kim Justice, this time an hour long documentary on Elite!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhO-v1wMe3M

The 6502 watch.

https://hackaday.com/2019/04/18/the-650 ... GhbiiCunxQ