Month: June 2015
Here is another interesting Kickstarter campaign. On this one, Jeffrey Wittenhagen proposes to write a comprehensive Nintendo Collector’s Book and also a physical NES RPG indie game with professional NES-themed artwork. “The Complete NES” is a project that is a combination campaign having multiple different aspects to it. There is a thorough NES Collector’s Guide covering the entire licensed US…
The National Museum of Computing in UK is trying to get help to maintain its collection of BBC Micro, first launched in 1981. Most of the collection is used on an interactive exhibit, and the need for maintenance also includes peripherals like CRT monitors. The museum, which is located on the Bletchley Park estate, has about 80 BBC Micro computers,…
Antic, the podcast about the Atari 8-bit computers has a new episode! Some of the highlights are: Nw atari archive sites. Randy tells us all about BASIC XL Kevin delves into the sordid history of DorsETT Educational Systems Bill Kendrick fills us in on a panoply of stuff, including a brain transplant for your 8-bit. (*) After the release of…
Prodatron released a beta version of SymbOS v3.0 – his operating system for the Amstrad CPC and the MSX. The main new feature of this release is the support for the DenYoNet network card on the MSX, and a driver for localhost. There is not network support for the Amstrad, though. The author seems pretty excited with this new release…
On this new episode of Drop III Inches, they talk about small advances in booting a /// from a flash drive, the Cursor /// joystick and the history of The Keyboard Company, and a visit to the Stanford archives of Apple materials to get the real scoop on EMI/RFI emissions and the timeline of the /// plus. After that, another…
Retro City Rampage 486 is an MS-DOS port of Retro City Rampage DX.It will run on an old 486 PC and requires 4MB of RAM and 3.7MB of HDD space. While ROM City Rampage was a fun *prototype* for the NES, this is a full on Retro City Rampage DX port with Story Mode, Arcade Challenges and Free Roaming. It…
Do you have a 1541 Ultimate or a SD2IEC, uIEC/SD, etc? Want to extract your GameBase 64 collection to an SD card, with an optimized folder structure and file names, quick and easy? GameBase 64 Reorganizer SD is what you need. IntroductionGB 64 Reorganizer began as a little utility to extract a Gamebase game archive collection into a folder structure…
You probably know we recently posted news about the #CPCRetroDev2015, a game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. Today the compo organizers made available a tape containing all games from the previous edition. It contains 16 games, and the sale is intended to finance the next editions of the contest, which gives money prize for the winners. Before placing…
The PDF-magazine REV’n’GE (“Retro Emulator Vision and Game”) Issue 35 is out. The magazine focuses on reviewing retro games released for several platforms. This edition brings: Lords of the Rings – Amiga Firelord – C64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum Firestar – MSX Tau Zero Redux – C64 Cobrastrike – Macintosh and much more… Link: Download Free PDF
After this update, the collection should contain 46,851 SID files!This update features (all approximates):798 new SIDs121 fixed/better rips3 repeats/bad rips eliminated412 SID credit fixes67 SID model/clock infos8 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified19 tunes from /GAMES/ identified24 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories22 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories It’s summertime again, and as usual it’s…
