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Hardcore Gaming 101 - Blog: Over 1800 Atari VCS games trawled for hidden stuff! edit / delete

Apparently quite a few 2600 games include chunks of source code -- or other data, e.g. Apple or Atari ROMs -- in their cartridge image, presumably for the same reason that the Amiga Kickstart disk did. Interesting in itself, but it also reveals what development systems were being used.

by ats ... to 2600 apple2 atari800 games retrocomputing ... on 24 January 2016

Amiga FPGA Accelerators edit / delete

That's one way to speed up an Amiga -- replace the CPU with a big FPGA! The A600 version has launched at €150.

by ats ... to accelerator amiga fpga retrocomputing ... on 24 January 2016

Kweepa/vicdoom: Doom for the VIC-20 edit / delete

Very impressive!

by ats ... to commodore doom games retrocomputing vic20 ... on 24 January 2016

Floppy Disk Preservation Project edit / delete

Copy protection for various 80s/90s platforms.

by ats ... to floppy piracy retrocomputing ... on 23 January 2016

ARMwiki edit / delete

As the title suggests. Has an "early ARM" (i.e. Acorn) focus, but still a useful reference for 32-bit ARM in general.

by ats ... to ag0700 arm assembler programming ... on 22 January 2016

countercomplex: Some deep analysis of one-line music programs. edit / delete

viznut's collection of one-line music. Very impressive.

by ats ... to audio chiptune cute-code demo demoscene glitch music retrocomputing ... on 22 January 2016

Plogue R&D: Plogue livenes edit / delete

Playing live music on the NES sound chip... by changing one bit at a time! Somewhat reminiscent of viznut's one-liners.

by ats ... to chiptune music nes performance retrocomputing ... on 22 January 2016

Classic Papers in Programming Languages and Logic edit / delete

by ats ... to language-design reading-list teaching types ... on 22 January 2016

2600 Connection edit / delete

Various "how to play arcade games" books; also includes Warren Robinett's history of 2600 Adventure, which is very interesting.

by ats ... to 2600 adventure atari games history retrocomputing ... on 22 January 2016

Zélus: a hybrid synchronous language with ODEs edit / delete

"Zélus is a synchronous language extended with Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) to model systems with complex interaction between discrete-time and continuous-time dynamics."

by ats ... to language-design modelling ode simulation ... on 22 January 2016