Category: Emulation News

Vote for the best Atari 8-bit port, improvement or hack of 2016!

Atariteca earlier this month started a poll to elect the best original game of 2016, which had a great response. Now the Spanish-speaking Atari blog is asking everyone to vote for the best game port, enhancement or hack of 2016. This time around, there is no original game, but pre-existing games that were somehow modified or games that were ported from another platform…

8-bit and Freeze 64 – Great Printed Magazines for the Holidays!

We are in a golden age of retro printed magazines, with excellent examples dedicated to different retro computers and one great multi-platform. Just before Christmas, I had in my mailbox Freeze 64 and 8-Bit Magazine. We mentioned these publications before, but I decided to talk a bit more about both to, hopefully, help those who are on the fence about buying them. Freeze…

ROMhacking.net Latest Updates

Latest updates over at romhacking.net are as follows: Rom Hacks F-Zero – Stage 12 – Caught! (Complete)(F-Zero)(SNES) Super Mario MCB Color Edition (Improvement)(Super Mario Bros.)(NES) Todos Contra TCHECO (Spoof)(Rockin’ Kats)(NES) Super Puzzle Fighter II for color-blind people (Improvement)(Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo)(ARC) Overhead (Bug Fix)(Final Fantasy III)(SNES) Super Puzzle Fighter II GBA for color-blind people (Improvement)(Super Puzzle Fighter II)(GBA) Rockman…

Plus4emu Updated to 1.2.10 beta

plus4emu is an open source, portable emulator of the Commodore Plus/4 computer, written in C++, and supporting Windows and POSIX platforms (32 bit Windows, 32 and 64 bit Linux, and MacOS X have been tested). It implements accurate, high quality hardware emulation, however, the system requirements are higher than that of most other emulators. Download: plus4emu-master.zip Website: github.com/istvan-v/plus4emu

Three New Commodore Emulator Updates, WinUAE 3.4.0 Final, Vice 3.0, YAPE 1.0.11

For those of you that just don’t have enough room in your house to store so much classic hardware, there is always emulation. I have used emulation for a long time now, in fact it was the main reason I bought a pc computer way back in 1998, after seeing Magic Engine emulator running on a friends Pentium 3 450mhz….

AtariCrypt Magazine, a new digital publication for the Atari ST is available now

Atari Crypt is a website dedicated to the Atari ST computers, and today Steve Gregory has announced the availability of the first issue of the AtariCrypt magazine. “Today, I am extremely proud to announce the availability of AtariCrypt Magazine. That’s right folks, a brand new magazine STuffed to the brim full of 16-bit gaming goodness. It has been designed by none…

Heart Of The Alien Redux Released, WinUAE 3.4.0 Beta 15, and FS-UAE Get’s an Update!

Today we have some fantastic Amiga News for you. WinUAE 3.4.0 Beta has been updated yet again, FS-UAE, another excellent Amiga emulator has been updated and also the sequel to Another World, “Heart Of The Alien Redux” was recently released. I am a big fan of WinUAE and have been using this emulator for many years. I used to use it stand alone but later…

The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems

The Atlantic website has published an article where the author, Benj Edwards goes back down the memory lane, talking about his time as a kid accessing the BBSes via a dial-up modem and how liberating that was, before the Internet was really a thing. The article has a good mix of personal experiences and straightforward history facts and I believe everyone…

WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 14 Update, The Worlds Greatest Amiga Emulator!

Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 14. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes link, have…

WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 13 Update, The Worlds Greatest Amiga Emulator!

Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 13. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes link, have…