Category: Computers
WebMSX is a fully featured MSX emulator that supports nine generic MSX machines using both PAL and NTSC. Developed using Javascript/HTML5, the emulator runs on any platform, and it was tested in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. A new version 5.0 was made available recently with the following features: NetPlay! Connect several users on the same Virtual MSX machine over the…
“Don’t copy that floppy”. Those who followed this advice issued by the Software Publishers Association were certainly in the minority, and the supporting music video didn’t exactly help the cause. Here in the UK it was the full page adverts from FAST (Federation Against Software Theft) who tried to scare us into binning any pirated software and grass up our…
Amstrad CPC owners who are fans of platform shoot’em up games likes Turrican and Metroid, may have been looking at Steel Ranger for the C64 in envy over the past few months wondering when they would get to receive an equivalent quality title for their beloved machine. Well ESP Soft has provided Amstrad owners with a great response in the…
Since it’s launch at the beginning of April 2018, our homebrew gaming database has gone from strength to strength with almost 100 titles available online for our community and site visitors to download. However, the best is yet to come, and retro gaming fans will be pleased to know that our team has been busy sourcing yet more of the…
Today I have some exciting Gaming News regarding the ZX Spectrum Next. You may already be aware that Dungeonette by Adrian Cummings has been released. I secured my copy a few days ago and I must say it is a fantastic game – highly recommend that you purchase it! You can still play the game even without a ZX Spectrum Next…
Roy Johan Widding contacted me today to let me know that Endurion (Georg Rottensteiner) will be one of the new game coders in Megastyle together with Scroll (Ruben SPaans), Docster (Kåre Johannesen), FX, (David Eriksson) and Microbit (Chris Stanley). For those of you that aren’t aware, Megastyle are the guys who are working on the upcoming c64 game Mancave –…
Among the many titles I played on my Amiga 500, one of those that I remember most vividly is Sword Of Honour. A curious blend of martial arts combat and graphical adventure that takes inspiration from games such as The Last Ninja series by System 3, the game would prove to be something of a labour of love for the small…
This is my 10th, and presumably final RetroChallenge update: tomorrow is the end of the contest. Most people would say “Hey, you were crazy to set that goal in the first place, let alone start with only a day left.” Ah, what do they know? I just a game design, and write some code. Sure, I only started learning assembly…
Knight Lore is an isometric action adventure game originally published in 1984 by Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum. Being the third game released as part of the classic Sabreman series, Knight Lore is generally considered to be one of the most seminal games to be released in the 80s vintage PC era and is often citied as…
















