Author: Paulo Garcia
Espectro Magazine is a Portuguese-speaking printed publication fully devoted to the ZX Spectrum. It is a co-production between Portuguese and Brazilian enthusiasts, who just announced the issue #3. The new issue brings a treat for its readers: a cover tape! Yes, the magazine will have a cassette tape bundled and it will include four games, including two exclusively available for…
Please forgive the ugly outdated under construction image above, but we are a retro computing website after all, and what is the best picture to represent a maintenance announcement like this one!? ;-) If you didn’t notice yet, all the original apps and games on our download pages have been removed, and there is a good reason for that. In the…
Jamie Lendino, author of Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, has published an article at Extremetech.com telling how he found out his book was pirated and put for sale at Amazon, just next to his own. It seems an author named Steve S. Thomas has taken Jamie’s “Breakout” book and copied it word by word and made it available…
After the very bad news about the case production, Henrique Olifiers has published new updates providing some light from within the darkness. First of all, he tells us that they have found two suppliers that already worked with SMS in the past and with good results. The two suppliers have already accessed the files and both are promising cost and delivery…
Magic Blocks is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 (also C16 with 64Kb) and the Commodore 128 where you play Archimedes, a sorcerer that needs to learn how to use the Magic Blocks to move around the mazes and find his way out. Each of the 16 levels has different levels of difficulty with a different structure. In some rooms,…
As you might know, the MSX platform is very popular in Brazil, with an extensive and very active community. The only thing that was missing was a new printed magazine. Until now! Mario Cavalcanti has contacted us to announce the launch of a new quarterly magazine next June. Clube MSX will have the standard magazine size (20,5 cm x 27,5…
If you are a Windows user, you have a plethora of great emulators for all possible retro computers out there and the Apple II is very well represented by AppleWin, a long-lived emulator that is also free and open source. The new version 1.27.1.0 has been released and brings the following features: Improve UI and logging when PrintScreen key fails to…
If you are slightly tuned to the Atari homebrew scene, you know it is alive, well and stronger than ever. Many great games have been created in the past years, including many of them being released as physical cartridges. Although most of the information about them comes from AtariAge forums, it is not easy to keep track of everything that…
The Arcade Blogger has posted an article which contains stories and photos of arcade machines hunting that not always goes as planned. But any serious collector/hunter of cabinets from the Golden Age of arcade collecting will tell you that things don’t always work out this way. There are countless instances where arcade cabinets are just too far gone to rescue….
Baba’s Palace won the last edition of #CPCRetroDev and the victory was well deserved. If you play the game (you gonna play it!), it is fair to say that if it had been released in the 80’s, Rafa Castillo and John McKlain would be swimming in a pool of money because the game would’ve sold a lot! When playing the game,…
