Category: Emulation News
[youtube qAGVilt3Rls nolink] The ‘NES Classic Edition’ is causing a commotion in the retro gaming community. While it is “not da saaame” as playing on the original hardware, the modern minified version is on the Christmas list of *everybody* probably because it is from Nintendo and it looks exactly like the original console. However, according to a recent article on…
Happiga is an emulation system that can be used on a very small computer such as a Raspberry Pi. It uses the UAE4ARM emulator to emulate an Amiga 4000 AGA including Picasso96. You can use a real keyboard and joystick via the Keyrah V2. Changes in this version: An update for Raspbian, support for 128 MB Z3 RAM, a new…
With the launch of Pokemon Go for iPhone and Android in many countries, the Internet has been flooded with all sorts of news about the game, with people playing the game everywhere. All that buzz made me think about the first Pokemon games – Red and Blue, released for the Gameboy in 1996. Yes, that is 20 years ago, which…
Quartz website has reported that the Apollo Guidance Computer code was published on Github. If you are interested in both the Apollo program and programming, you will be delight to be able to go over the thousands of pages of the code that helped the man to go to the Moon. The code, according to Quartz, has been available for the public…
Paulo Peccin has announced the immediate availability of his WebMSX, a MSX emulator that runs directly on your browser. If you frown when you hear “browser-based”, you will change your mind. WebMSX is amazingly fast and fully-featured and with the new features of the version 2.0, it gets even better. Check the changelog below: 9 Generic machines (MSX1, MSX2, MSX2+)….
If you are one of the 70+ lucky ones that are going to the 2016 edition of the long-lasting Apple II enthusiasts gathering Kansasfest, you will be happy to know that several vendors will be giving extra discounts to their products. Here is the official announcement: “KansasFest is a great opportunity to meet some of the vendors who support our community. …
Bill Pierce announced on the CoCo maillist that he has updated the VCC Starter Kits with newer versions of the emulator and Drivewire.The “VCC Starter Kits” are a single install of VCC (CoCo3 emulator), HDBDOS, NitrOS9, and DriveWire4, completely set up and ready to run. The kit is perfect for those who want a quick start with the VCC emulator…
The Mojo Twins has released the port from ZX Spectrum, Uwol, Quest For Money for the MSX2. The game is about to steal the most amount of coins possible. Uwol won’t want to end his mission until he collects a minimum of 255 of those. The manor rooms are arranged like a pyramid, starting from the very top, and after…
Mist is a hardware platform based on FPGA that can run many different platforms, including Commodore 64, Atari ST, Super NES, Colecovision, Amiga 500 and much more. The video published on PhilsComputerLab YouTube channel is an extensive tutorial/review about the Amiga 500 implementation running on the Mist platform. Phil shows how to setup and boot the device, as well as the…
Fuse, a free and open source Speccy emulator for Windows, Linux and OSX, just got updated to version 1.2. Here is the announcement: “After a long gestation, and on behalf of the Fuse team I’d like to announce that a new version of Fuse, the 1.2.0 release of Free Unix Spectrum Emulator has been released at the SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/…
