Retro Game Coders

16/02/2024

Writing games using C/C++ on the Neo6502 - Credit Card Size Open Source Modern Retro Computer with W65C02

You can use CC65 to code games for the Neo6502 using C/C++! In this tutorial I show you how I converted my Dungeon crawler to the computer.

12/02/2024

I wrote a review of the Neo6502

TL;DR I love it 🤓

Neo6502 is a "Modern Retro Computer" - a brand new single board computer that features a real 6502 microprocessor. Let's see what it is like!

04/02/2024

The “ROM” is now running an actual program 🥳 (just hello world but it’s valid z80 machine code)

Now using all Pico pins so can only have 16k of ROM/RAM. Might have even less by the end if I need to set a WAIT line on the Z80 due to timing issues.

This is what I get for stubbornly figuring it out myself instead of following a tutorial but I’m learning lots 🤓

15/01/2024

Top 5 favourite Vic 20 game of all time running on a tiny microcontroller 🤯

15/01/2024

IBM XT emulator on ESP32 running Turbo C++

14/01/2024

VIC 20 running on ESP32

14/01/2024

This little vga to hdmi converter works pretty well for projects such as the Agon etc

12/01/2024

Retro shield with real 6502 on Arduino Mega. Unfortunately only runs 1/4 speed and not much RAM but on the plus side actual Commodore BASIC

11/01/2024

What is your programming journey?

A conversation on social media sparked this idea, I thought it would be interesting for the Retro Game Coders community to share how you got into programming and your journey from starting out to what you do now?

09/01/2024

It’s alive! 🥳

(It’s a Kim-1 recreation and fiddly as all get out to solder with my aged eyes and fingers so I’m surprised it boots TBH)

02/01/2024

I added a Commodore in-browser emulator to my website, along with the full game of PETFrog :)

https://retrogamecoders.com/pet-emulator/

Please let me know if you discover any bugs?

(The dungeon game is a WIP)

Browser-Based Commodore PET Emulator

29/12/2023

Custom character set

29/12/2023

Assembling Kim1 UNO kit for belated Christmas 🎅🎁

28/12/2023

There’s something really cool about programming ~40 year old machines using modern tools 🤓

06/11/2023

https://retrogamecoders.com/agon-light-first-impressions/

Agon Light is a single-board computer based around a Z80 CPU, along with an ESP32 for audio, video, and IO.

24/10/2023

One of my favourites

07/07/2023

I’d love to follow you over at Threads 🧵 too?

24/11/2022

Been gifted this sweet little CRT 🤩

Has arrial, AV and SCART inputs

12/10/2022

Original box now with permanent marker and packing tape from movers 😢

12/10/2022

Our movers didn’t pack our stuff very well 😬

07/10/2022

Was gifted this old boy from a former colleague who was clearing out his dads loft. I’m guessing I’ll need to carefully recap but it’s looking pretty good from a quick look

29/07/2022

I could have spent a lot of money in there if we had found somewhere to live already 😅
thumb.retro.games

27/07/2022

Finally got chance to crack open my Vision BASIC box 👍🤓🫱💾💻

24/07/2022

Space Invaders is different now 👾

11/07/2022

treasure

03/07/2022

Last quick browse before we move back to England. Many tempting things but I was a good boy 😫

26/06/2022

MSX reborn

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-japanese-pc-that-ran-the-original-metal-gear-is-coming-back-after-30-years-of-extinction/

The MSX's co-creator is back with a new model, the MSX3, and it's coming this year.

22/06/2022

Vision BASIC is the latest in a long, long line of tools intended to speed up the ex*****on of C64 BASIC code. Seems odd in 2022 to be talking about C64 programming tools, let alone NEW tools for the platform, but here we are! What is Vision BASIC? You can get all the official information …

18/06/2022

Some of my 1991 COBOL assignments

14/06/2022

I hate it when I find the cases with no disk inside 😫