Category: Games Consoles
Although fighting in the fourth-generation of video game consoles against its 16-bit rivals, the 8-bit CPU of the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16 packed plenty of punches. While it may not have had the same processing power as the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive, it sure could pull off plenty of visual trickery to stay afloat – something an all…
Following a long running series of action packed adventure with Turrican, developer Manfred Trenz seemed to almost disappear from the gaming industry entirely. While still knocking around in the shadows, Trenz’s Turrican swan song ended up arriving as an obscure Japanese exclusive Super Famicom title known as Rendering Ranger R2. Although skipping out on a worldwide release, the title was…
[youtube -iLsmsr7-24 nolink] Using Kickstarter as a platform to help fund development of an all new 8-bit adventure, Brad Smith has turned to the crowd-sourcing platform to bring Lizard to life. This reptilian platformer spanning countless screens and a nostalgic soundtrack is not only due to hit the Nintendo NES, but also Mac and PC. Brad Smith is a video…
[youtube CosmnuWvQ0Y nolink] RetroGameModz has made a video about the modification of an Amiga CD-32. The modification is an RGB connector at the back-side. During the modification RetroGameModz discovered a few defective capacitors. In the video you can follow the whole repair and the modification. Youtube Channel
Ian Stedman is working on an expansion card for the Amiga CD32. This expansion card will be a replacement for the Paravision SX-1 or the DCE SX32/Pro expansions from the 1990’s. Specifications: 8 MB SRAM, Parallel ATA (IDE) / CF, Floppy, Real time clock and a clockport connector. You can follow the progress on his blog.
A CD32 trial version of the backbone game “Marco Gregorio’s Adventures to Unusual Places” has been released. For the CD³²-version the screen size was reduced and the animation of the water removed. This is the assignment of keys of the control pad: red = shoot, blue = jump, green = open door. Download: marco-5-31.iso (CD³²-version) Download: marco.lha (Original version)









