Category: Emulation News
Following the interview with Russ Wetmore on Antic Podcast, Kevin Savetz has published with the author’s authorization, the source code of Preppie, Preppie II and Sea Dragon. Preppie is a Frogger-like game with some variations, and Preppie II is a Maze game (still with frogs!). Sea Dragon is a side-scroller submarine game (imagine R-Type under the sea). All three games…
James “CritAnime” Parkinson has published a very detailed tutorial teaching how to setup a Raspberry PI with RetroPie distribution and make the Commodore 64 emulator boot in BASIC, turning you PI in a *true* Commodore machine! He starts with “I love my Raspberry Pi. I think it is one of the best computer systems people can buy. It is cheap….
WHDLoad is a software package for the Amiga platform to make installation of software to a hard disk easier, for such things as demos or games. Recently it was announced that WHDLoad is now free which certainly brought more attention to it. Timely, the ByteCellar Blog has published a good introduction to WHDLoad. It is a must read and an…
The Ultimate Amiga Talk – Amiga Hardware Design And Programming was presented at 2015 Chaos Communication Congress – Gated Communities (#32C3) in Hamburg. The hour-long video shows the speaker, Bernard R. Fischer going deep in Amiga 500 hardware description as well as programming information. It is a very technical video but a must-see for everyone interested on Amiga programming. [youtube 3Ho12VYv-iw nolink] For…
HVSC – High Voltage SID Collection is the ultimate SID collection, containing more than 47,000 SID tunes for you listening pleasure! Update #64 came out few days ago and you can download it right now. If you don’t have any previous version, you can choose the complete download instead the update as well. This update features (all approximates): 672 new…
YAPE is Plus/4 emulator. It’s being developed for 10+ years by now and it is available in Windows as well as multiplatform editions. It was just released a new version of the emulator running on Windows. It is a minor incremental update to 1.0.7 with the following changes: GUI fix SID fixes drive RPM fix autostart randomization fix For other…
1985 Alternative and The Mojo Twins are ready to release at any moment the new Genesis/Mega Drive game Mega Cheril Perils. The game is based on another title developed by the Mojo Twins for the ZX Spectrum where you controls Cheril who is tasked with freezing time on each stage through a time capsule, which then allow you to dispose of the…
I’ve never seen an Amstrad CPC face-to-face, but after reading about it and playing with emulators, I wish a had personal experience with this machine for its capabilities. Nonetheless, it is always good to see new games coming out for the platform. This time, we welcome ‘Adios a la Casta Episode 1’ by 4Mhz group. The game is still in…
A new version of the Z88dk development environment for Z80 based computer like the Amstrad CPC, Cambridge Z88, MSX, Sinclair ZX 81, Sinclair ZX Spectrum was just released. The release is a transition release on the way to v2.0 which aims on using the SDCC compiler instead of the Small-C compiler, which was used before. This leads to much faster…
‘E-Type’ was first released for the BBC Micro in 1989. The game is a version of the Arcade driving game Out Run (Sega) where you basically have to drive as much as you can avoiding incoming traffic and obstacles. Fast-forward to 2015, Fandal and Irgendwer decided to make a port of the game for the Atari 130XE and the result is…
