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ugvm03 magazine - Retro Special!
deKay writes "You might be interested in Issue 03 of "ugvm" written by the regulars of uk.games.video.misc magazine.
Issue 03 is a 40-page Retro Special, and contains articles on the Fairchild Channel F console, the Supervision, and the Evolution of Text Adventures. There are also 17 pages of reviews of games, and loads more.
ugvm is free, and can be downloaded in PDF format." Besides being an interesting subject matter, this is a cool way to write.
http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~ekrout/ugvm03lo.pdf
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For Retro fans interested in c64 technology and nostalgia, the upcoming Amiga Messe in Aachen may be of interest.
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Next to Amiga products, Jeri Ellsworth will travel from the US to the show to launch a new c64 compatible clone, called the c-one.
The c-one is a MicroATX form factor board, with at its core a (65c816 processor running approximately at 20 MHz) the 65c816 is a 6502 compatible processor with a 24 bit address range extra instructions that access the full memory range are added to the 6502 core.
Another interesting product which will be sold at the Aachen fair is the new Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper board. This PCI board can be used with the c-one, AmigaOne boards, Pegasos boards, Classic Amigas and even ordinary PCs to read just about any disk format using ordinary mainstream diskdrives (including 880kb/1,76 MB Amiga disks and c64 disks!), connect digital c64/Amiga/Atari joysticks, connect Amiga keyboards or even add a real c64 SID soundchip'.
Here's a picture:
http://home.t-online.de/home/indcomp/bin/cwmk3.jp
For more information about this Catweasel product look here.
Here's my little blurb for a format that gets little attention, but would be of great benifit for everyone. It's even open-source.
DjVu
DjVu on the web
Plugins for various browsers
The size is considerably smaller than PDF with equal or better quality, and can be printed out.
They do need people to help with the libre version over at Sourceforge.
pdf is not proprietary. Check this post out for more details. You don't need any Adobe program to read pdfs. Adobe does make Acrobat for Linux, but you can use xpdf to display pdfs.
"I keep looking in the want-ads under 'revolutionary' but there don't seem to be any listings.. "
And for those still playing and writing single-player text adventures, it's still a thriving (albeit not commercially viable) hobby, as the author would have known if he'd gone to all the research trouble of, oh, a Google search.
I'm pretty sure that the Annual IF Competition was even announced on Slashdot this year.
With being one of the contributors to this issue (With my rushed Top 5) I am amazed how big this magazine has got. Spectacular!
Anyway, this magazine is 100% free and is not affiliated with any non-electronic magazine. It also it entirely submitted by the readers of the uk.video.games.misc newsgroup.
An hurrah for free magazines!
In case anyone wants to experience the Fairchild Channel F on their computer, it has been emulated as part of MESS. I know because I worked on that code. :)