Category: Computers

Wired Magazine features Apple II new RPG Nox Archaist

Retrocomputing and retro gaming continue to get noticed by major news outlets. First was the New York Times with the article The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing published on January 8th, and now Wired Magazine, with the article People Still Really Love the Apple II. Wired’s article is a bit more focused on a game that we are all…

Commodore 64 “Runn ‘n’ Gunn” – Pre-order now and get your name in the game

Carleton Handley is almost ready to release his new game Runn ‘n’ Gunn for the Commodore 64, a beautiful action platform set to be released on January 29th. Based on the released footage, the game shows action-packed levels and a beautiful dark environment. You play a super soldier made after fusing Willie Runn and Wally Gunn, two average soldiers. They…

An external version of Ultimate1MB for Atari XL/XE is in the works

Sebastian ‘Candle`o`Sin’ Bartkowicz has, many years ago, developed the Ultimage1MB, one of the best modern upgrades you can buy for your Atari XL/XE. It offers, as you can guess, 1MB of RAM for the Atari 8-bits but it doesn’t stop there. You can have in it multiple operating systems and BASICs available, a real time clock and multiple modes of…

Virtual II Emulator version 10.2 has been released

Virtual II, the must-have Apple II emulator for macOS, has been updated. The new version includes many additions and bug fixes. Changelog: Inspector watchpoints can now be defined for a specific memory bank, improving their use for debugging. Added keyboard shortcuts for the main Inspector functions break, resume and single step. It is now possible to see a mounted disk’s…

CSDb “Only Sprites” Competition announces the winners

The Only Sprites Compo hosted by CSDb came to an end and announced the winners. Because the compo had received demos and games competing, it was decided to separate them into two categories. In the Demos category, the winner is Oldschool Sprite Demo by Bonzai, which had tough competition against the other 26 demos. The best game category had only…

The 3rd Annual Atari Homebrew Awards is waiting for your votes!

Once again, ZeroPage Homebrew, AtariAge, Mark/Space | Argon and The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion are organizing the Annual Atari Homebrew Awards. The 3rd edition is waiting for your vote for your favourite homebrew games of 2020. As listed in this previous post, the homebrew production for the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, and Atari 8bit/5200 is huge, showing that the game…

Atari800MacX new version 6.0.0 adds support for Apple Silicon

Just a couple of weeks after the release of version 5.5.0, Atari800MacX 6.0.0 is out with not many functional changes, but with an important update that will ensure the emulator will stay work on macOS for many years to come. The emulator app bundle now includes both binaries for Intel and Apple ARM CPU. The OS will choose the right…

Lemon Amiga launches new and improved website

I like to think Vintage is the New Old foments the retro computing community integration, and more than once, we have been promoting different websites and projects around the internet. It is with pleasure that I see one of the most traditional ones getting even better! Lemon Amiga website has been around for many years, and it is one of…

Quadron DeLuxe – The acclaimed ZX Spectrum game gets a Cassette CD pack

After almost two years from its launch, Quadron for the ZX Spectrum by Andy “Cosmium” Beale finally got its deserved physical release. Published by Cronosoft, Quadron DeLuxe features a double jewel case containing both a special edition sparkly cassette and mini CD-ROM featuring the same, most recent version of the game and the following extras: TAP emulator file of the latest version…

Winner of the most favourite C64 game announced

Retro Gamer Nation is pleased to announced that Zeta Wing by Sarah Jane Avory has been declared the most popular C64 new release game for 2020. Over 370 gamers participated in the public voting event whereby C64 gamers where able to select up to 5 of their favourite nominated games for 2020. Zeta Wing took out the award with 144…