Month: August 2014

Stella Version 4.0 Released

A significant new release of the Atari 2600 emulator Stella, version 4.0, has been released today. Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and versions have been released for a wide variety of operating systems. Stella allows you to enjoy the large library of Atari 2600 titles on your computer, and…

The Spectrum Show #30

[youtube tIXkFXgWrhA nolink] In the last episode of the series, we take a look at the news and top selling Spectrum games from July 1985. In an end of series special, we take a look at probably the best known game publisher on the Spectrum, Ultimate Play The Game.

ULAPLUS – Finally on your Speccy!

This time we present to you, dear user of ZX-Evo, ULAPLUS! You can play re-coloured games now, just download and install fresh new firmware for your ZX-Evo! Don’t forget also to update the ROM for best experience!Got problems? Post about it here. Yes we understand english. Website: http://nedopc.com

Retro Asylum : CJ in the USA

[youtube n1UEK54OYsw nolink] CJ the elephant returned to the ZX Spectrum in 1989, in a superb follow up to his last outing. This time CJ has to rescue his family who were capture an taken to the USA.

Retro Asylum Music Disk

Aaron White, a good friend of ours from Twitter has kindly sent us over his first Amiga chiptunes disk which we uploaded to our Amiga demos section.The adf contains ten chip tunes all by Aaron and a nice Retro Asylum graphics image is shown during play. The music disk will run within an emulator such as WinUAE or FS-UAE and…

Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.6dev

Frode Solheim’s FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD is based on WinUAE and can be completely controlled with a joypad. Since the last stable version released in March (2.4.1), only versions which are still in development have been released. Website: http://fs-uae.net

Giana II: Arther and Martha in Future World

[youtube w6-G24V10I8 nolink] Giana II: Arther and Martha in Future World is a basic hack of “Hard N Heavy” reskinned as “Giana II: Arther and Martha in Future World” (the original title – more history at http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Hard’n’Heavy#Trivia). The hack is by earok and you can download the hack from here. It’s a hack of the WHDLoad disk image, so you’ll need…

CSDb Latest Releases

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Shine ‘Metal 3D’, PAL Logo, VOA, DM Music Selector, Shine ‘Fantasy’, New Horizons, Evoke 2014 Partyscroller, Burnin’ Pen ’64, C64 SceneView (preview), Dropzone update, FictionalPlanets, Arsenic Logo “Optical Alignment”, Rasters4, Running on Empty, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Mag Max +8DGH +Pic, Oxyron Logo ‘Magic’, Vallation +6HD. Source: CSDb

PET 2001 RAM Adapter

D’Asaro Designs is now producing 6550 RAM adapters for the Commodore PET 2001. The adapter makes it possible to replace a bad 6550 RAM chip with a 2114 RAM chip. Features: Fully functional pin-compatible. Batten and Allen PCB edge pins. Gold-plated machined DIP socket for the 2114 RAM and the necessary 2114 RAM chip is included. Website: http://www.dasarodesigns.com

Relaunch64 – v3.3

Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a modern computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: Code navigation, Find-by-typing option, Toolbar with common functions, Sorting-options for sidebar, More shortcuts to menu-commands and a couple of errors are removed. Website: http://www.popelganda.de