Author: Paulo Garcia
I was expecting that the Next would be a hot topic over Kickstarter and it would be funded, but I didn’t expect that to happen so quick. The project is fully funded already, which means they will get the money from all backers via Kickstarter. Since there are still 28 days to go, there are plenty of time to go way…
We were all counting the days when we could pledge for the ZX Spectrum Next project, and now that day has come! The Next campaign is live and after a couple hours, it already reached almost £50,000. We are happy to be the first retro computing/gaming website to bring such good news! The Spectrum Next is an expanded and updated…
Eurogamer website has published an article stating that sources close to Nintendo confirmed a SNES Classic will be launched this year. Last week we published a post talking about the end of production of the NES Classic, and we even mentioned that possibility of a SNES! It seemed just natural that with the success of the NES Classic, Nintendo wouldn’t…
The Internet Archive has been allowing everybody to enjoy directly in their browser window many applications and games for the Apple II, MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and some consoles like the Atari. Today, the Archive has announced the availability of Software Library: Macintosh, a collection of applications and games running on the early Macintosh models, like that 128K, 512K, Plus, etc. As expected,…
Nintendo is famous for being behind on shipments of its most successful products, like the original Wii and more recently, the NES Classic. To get one NES Classic for the listed price at your local retailer, you would need to be very lucky or stay in lines for hours before the doors were open. An almost impossible task for most of…
This year, Canada is celebrating 150 years and releasing a commemorative $10 bill is part of the activities planned for this year. And this is vintage/retro how? You might be asking… The retro-gaming bit is that the Bank of Canada website showing off a beautiful 360 degrees rendered bill (which you can flip around) hides an easter egg that can be…
ZX Spectrum Next is probably the most anticipated modern take of a retro computer to date. The first ZX Vega had a huge impact, but the fact it was a gaming machine only, it didn’t attract the average retro enthusiast that wanted to do more than simply play games. The last word is that the ZX Spectrum Next campaign is under…
LWTOOLS is a set of cross-development tools for the Motorola 6809 and Hitachi 6309 microprocessors. It supports assembling to raw binaries, CoCo LOADM binaries, and a proprietary object file format for later linking. It also supports macros and file inclusion among other things. The version 4.14 has been released bringing the following changes, including explanations from the author: The “forwardrefmax”…
Every now and then, during our daily visits to CSDb we happen to see some nicely done graphics, demos, games, or music. Today I was happy to see this graphics + music homage to the newly released game Thimbleweed Park created by Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, Secret of Monkey Island). The program made for the Commodore 64, which can be also…
In 1989, Jordan Mechner released Prince of Persia for the Apple II and it was a best seller as the history tells. Later the game was ported to all computer and game platform you can think of, making it one of the most iconic games ever released. 28 years later, the original game is still fun to play, even on retro machines…
