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Latest Amiga WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2018-04-26. 2018-04-26 improved: Amazing SpiderMan (Paragon/Oxford Digital/Empire) another version supported (Info,Image) 2018-04-25 improved: Crystal Hammer (reLINE) unlimited lives and reset hiscores added, dma wait patched, quitkey works on 68000 (Info) 2018-04-23 improved: Coala (Empire) copy protection screen completely skipped,…

MsMadLemon’s C64Ultimate II+ Multi-Part Video Series! Part 4 Floppy Disk and Tape Backup and Restoration

MsMadLemon has recently uploaded part 4 of her C64Ultimate II+ Multi-Part Video Series. In this new video Maddi explores backup and restoration of real floppy disks and cassette games using the 1541 Ultimate II+ Cartridge by Gideon’s Logic Architectures. Games featured in this video are The Bear Essentials and the classic Arkanoid! [vsw id=”33yiIUptpnE” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]YouTube: MsMadLemon

Planet Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games News and Updates!

As an avid Speccy fan, I often visit the fantastic Planet Sinclair website. It’s a mountain of ZX Spectrum information, and there is always something new there to read. The website is not native English, however I personally think it is worth running it through a translator, Chrome browser has one built in and comes in very handy. Listed below…

Amiga Mania, Amiga Event Hosted by Retromania! (19th May, Gaia, Portugal)

We were contacted a couple of days ago by Ricardo from retromania.pt about an upcoming Amiga event called Amiga Mania. Today Ricardo has shared all the important details you will need if you decide to make an appearance there. Hi you guys, Retromania is preparing to hold an Amiga Party in Portugal in May. We are going to officially announce…

Eleven New Homebrew Games Added to the Vitno Database!

Eleven new Homebrew games have been added to the database today. At the top left of the website (next to Home), you will see “Homebrew Database”, just hover your mouse pointer to view the drop down menu of games. ;-) Commodore 64 Angry Golem (Max Breedon) Blok Copy (Cosine) Bomb Run 64 (Picaro Games) C64 Mini MultiDisk PD Games (Vinny…

Three New Homebrew Games Added to the Vitno Database

Three new Homebrew games have been added to the database today. At the top left of the website (next to Home), you will see “Homebrew Database”, just hover your mouse pointer to view the drop down menu of games. Commodore 64 C=Rex Offline (Genesis Project) ZX Spectrum Tea-Leaf Ted (Bear Version) (News) Tea-Leaf Ted (Man Version) (News)

Bomb Jack Beer Edition For Amiga, Beta 5A Released!

Beta 5a of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been released. For more information about the game, check through our older posts and the EAB thread link below. It’s been close to a couple of weeks since I last posted so I thought it best I provide a progress update and to let you know…

World War Simulator Part II, A New Game Preview by Retrobytes Productions

We have recently learnt News of a new game preview release by Retrobytes. It’s our understanding that “World War Simulator Part II” will be released coincide the Amstrad Eterno event in Barcelona, from Saturday April 21st until Sunday afternoon April 22nd. The game shares similarities to Pandora’s “Into the Eagles Nest” originally released way back in 1986. World War Simulator…

First Homebrew Games Uploaded to Vintage is the New Old

As mentioned in our earlier post, today starts the new addition of our website Homebrew Games database. Over the next few months, you will start to see our team adding new Homebrew Games to the site on a regular basis. Please remember that any Homebrew titles we have listed in the database that are not free will always link out…

Good News for C64 Mini Owners, Vinny Mainolfi Releases C64 Multi Disk Packs!

Since the recent release of the C64 Mini by Retro Games Ltd, there has been a large influx of Commodore 64 activity on various social media platforms, predominantly Twitter and Facebook. Even people who haven’t played the C64 since their childhoods have dusted off the cobwebs to pay tribute to the good old beige breadbin. Some of you may be…