Author: Paulo Garcia
Blake Patterson has published a blog post and a demo video about a new device that a lot of people in our retro community have been talking about: the Wifi232, an inexpensive device that lets you BBS the way it was meant to be done, on hardware from the golden age of the Bulletin Board System. Since the device connects…
One of the promises made during the ZX Spectrum Next campaign and reinforced in the Facebook group was a revamped website for the Next. The idea is to have a central hub where the backers and the public in general, can get information about the Next, not only during the development phase but also after the project is complete. We…
AmigaRemix has been updated with the following remixes of iconic soundtracks: Shadow Of The Beast II – Title (Chillout Edit) Blue Berry (Cover) Darkman007 Turrican II – The Desert Rocks (Trance/Dance Remix) SLL1 Remix v2 Lizardking’s Theme (Epic Transition) A Final Hyperbase Leander – World One Once in a life (Turrican3 End Theme) (Psyria Reconstruction Edit) You can listen or…
The 8-Bit Guy has published a video where he walks us through the restoration of a CoCo 1 he acquired. The computer was in really bad shape, with a lot of dirty and the paint was worn off in different spots – a really ugly machine. I watched the video and he did a really good job, although I would think…
Martin Piper has released a new version 2.2.0.3 of his Windows-based SID composer tool. This release contains bug fixes and adding a new reference documentation for Dynamic track/table/block. To celebrate this new release, there is a new video showing the tune MeanStreak, composed by Matt Gray in 1987 and remake by NecroPolo in 2010. If you know nothing about chiptunes compositions, it is…
Motkonge is an action game that is inspired and pays excellent homage to the PC classic Populous. The objective of the game is to lead the Blue “team” and beat the red ones. As you team progresses, you conquer more land until you defeat the enemy. You can take a pick at the game play watching the video below. [vsw…
CSDb (Commodore Scene Database) is our source of Commodore good news since 2011, and we are always getting surprised by what the Commodore scene is capable of. This time the surprise came in 3D! Wolf3D is a port of Wolfenstein 3D based on the original ID Software source code. The game requires a C64/C128 equipped with a SuperCPU v2 and 16MB…
This is not retro since it is a brand new computer with modern hardware. However, it runs AmigaOS so we are all over it :) Ars Technica has an extensive review of the A-EON X5000, a new desktop that features a dual-core Freescale CPU up to 2.5GHz, up to 64GB of RAM and runs AmigaOS 4.1. Most of the review…
The excellent MSX Resource Centre website brought to my attention this new game that will be released in July by Kai Magazine. Myths and Dragons is a fantasy-themed beat ’em up game that also has some RPG elements. This nice addition gives the game more to look for since the players can gain experience and money that will let them upgrade equipment as…
The first big party is over! We’ve been posting a lot of news about the ZX Spectrum Next. Although we are not associated with the developer team, we found the project so interesting that it got us excited. Myself and my Co-Admin CommodoreBlog, have both backed the project and now we look forward to getting our hands on this cool…
