Lord British’s return to Britannia is old news – Richard Garriott’s Kickstarter to fund his new game, Shroud of the Avatar, is already up to more than 75% of its stated goal of $1 million – but did you know that pledging at the “Lord of the Manor” level, a $10,000 donation, would have secured […]
March 2013
Posted inHardware, It's a Hack!
Apple //e Quickcam – Now in Hi-Res!
On Friday, David Schmenk posted a video of a neat hardware hack: a Connectix parallel Quickcam running real-time images to his IIe through an Apple Parallel Card. Â Today, he showed off the natural evolution of his hack: the Quickcam transmitting in glorious monochromatic high resolution. Â According to Schmenk, it’s slow – about 1 frame per […]
Posted inHardware, It's a Hack!, Programming
How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes really work
An extensive article detailing the illegal opcodes present in the original MOS 6502 has been posted over at pagetable.com. Â Check it out here. Note: this article is rather old (2008) (age being a relative thing on the interwebs), and as the author states, much has been written to document the opcodes already. Â The difference here […]
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Eamon Micro-Adventure Contest announced
A new contest has been announced over at the Eamon Adventurer’s Guild. If you’ve read through the old NEUC and EAG newsletters, you’ve undoubtedly run across one of the contests held years ago. (This is why there are about a billion Eamons mentioning a “Life Orb.”) They tended to produce some pretty solid adventures. Of […]
Posted inProgramming, Software
Brutal Deluxe releases Mr. Sprite
Paris, March 3rd, 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to announce Mr Sprite, a command-line tool to manage sprites and to simplify the integration of sprites into Apple IIgs games. Discover Mr Sprite at http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/crossdevtools/mrsprite/ Mr Sprite is part of the Brutal Deluxe’s Cross Developpement Tools Project, a full set of utilities available on […]