Category: Computers

Video – Amstrad Action Focus #1 [Issue 60]

[youtube Y-CV41sEGQk nolink] Amstrad Action Issue 60 – The GX4000 is Unleashed… “Novabug” is releasing the first episode in a series of videos highlighting an issue of Amstrad Action magazine from the late 80’s and early 90’s. He discusses and passes comment on the headlining articles of the time of publish, predictions and general progress of gaming on the Amstrad…

The Secret of Monkey Island in development for MSX2

Kai Magazine has published in its Facebook page the first screenshots of the “until now” rumoured port of “The Secret of Monkey Island” for the MSX2. According to MSXBlog, the game will use the Screen 5 mode with 16 colours, which can be seen on the screenshots. Source: MSX Blog

MSX – Sunrise Foundation to halt its activities – the end of an era

Sunrise Foundation, known to supply the best hardware peripherals for the MSX will close its doors after more than 20 years of operation. According to the Nowind announcement, deliverability issues were caused by unexpected lack of time for managing the activities of the Sunrise foundation. This is not likely to change soon, which made Sunrise conclude that the time has…

DYI Guide: Simple ZX Spectrum video composite mod

RetroGamer Collector website has published an extensive and detailed How To teaching how to allow you to connect your beloved ZX Spectrum to your LCD screen using the composite video input. As the Spectrum already has a perfectly good composite signal and there is no need to use the RF circuitry anymore, the process is simple: bypass the RF modulator…

DOTY 2014 – Demo of the Year 2014 Competition

[youtube IpNhWTVQeGU nolink] It is now open the Demo of the Year 2014 Competition, and only demos never released before are allowed to participate, and they have to run on stock C64 without expansions. The deadline is end of February, 2015, and after that, the voting period will happen during the month of March. The video above is the invitation…

Retro Super Robot Rampage / Vortex

[youtube cictUOfIJwA nolink] Retro Super Robot Rampage is a game that combines elements of two genres: arcade and action. The mode is single player and the goal is to move onto as many possible levels and get the highest score by killing the enemy. The story is about a little robot who is trapped in a dungeon and drawing attention…

CSDb Latest Releases

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Shitmen Intro #32, Ralph Baer Commemoration 2, Ralph Baer Commemoration 1, Attack of the Mutant Aliens +, Round 3×3 V2, Penultimate Fantasy 100% +3DF [pal/ntsc], Graveyard Opus, Fickle [16kb cartridge], Pseudo Techno, Lotek64 #50, Tutti Frutti 64 Preview +2, Brilliant Maze Music Demo, Fickle +5D, Brilliant Maze +2D, Frodigi 5, Mini-Arcade: Climax…

UK1541, true drive emulator for C64 sceners

UK1541 is a true drive emulator powered from User Port with IR remote controller and 2,2″ TFT.some videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rBCfPsMFVQmore info: https://www.facebook.com/uk1541drive Source: c64.sk

WinUAE 3.0.0 beta 27

Beta 27: (RC2) – Added compatibility warning message if PPC CPU (and m68k is stopped) configures UAE filesystem autoconfig board (“UAE” controller that is needed by uaehf.device bsdsocket, uaescsi and so on) – Added download url to no ppc plugin detected message. – Minimize when inactive option should be ignored if mode is fullscreen. Only uncapturing mouse in real fullscreen…

SD-BOX Cartridge v1.14

The SD-BOX is a cartridge for the Commodore 64 with an SD card interface. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Faster directory scrolling via the keyboard. You can now use the joystick in the menu and the diskette directory. Updates for the manual and a few small errors are removed. Website: http://c64.com.pl