Category: News

Street Fighter II remake inbound for the Commodore 64

The official Commodore 64 release of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is well-known for being one of the most lacklustre conversions of the Capcom’s seminal tournament fighting game in existence, so we were excited to learn that a new, fan-based remake is in the works! Behind the planned reincarnation is Paco Herrera of PacoBlog64, which was originally conceived a…

Latest C64 Updates from Richard Bayliss, The New Dimension Website (TND)

Latest downloads over at The New Dimension are as follows: Electric Warrior A$$emble It Seuck Compo 2018 Moon Over Afghanistan Scene World #28 Website: tnd64.unikat.sk

Athanor 2 – The Legend of Birdmen now available in English for Amstrad CPC

Safar Games recently announced that their text-adventure game, Athanor 2 – The Legend of Birdmen, has been given a full UK English release. According to a post made by the game’s author, Eric Safar, on the official website, 50 copies have been made available for purchase. This isn’t an especially large quantity, so we suggest that adventure game fans who…

WinUAE 4.0 beta 12 released

Toni Wilen continues his endeavours to improve the quintessential Amiga emulator for Windows-based computers with the release of WinUAE 4.0 public beta 12. As always, bear in mind that beta release isn’t guaranteed to be completely stable, so you may come across unexpected issues under normal use. According to Toni’s latest updates on the English Amiga Board (EAB) forum, the…

FM-YAM, A Commodore 64 Sound Expander Compatible

FM-YAM is a cartridge for your C64 that will add FM sound capability to your system. See it as adding Adlib to your C64, since it has the OPL2 YM3812 on board. Remember that a lot of 8-bit (and 16-bit) systems used to have Adlib options as well. There’s the original Adlib sound cards for PC, but other systems, such as…

Scene World #28 Released!

Hot for you and just released Scene World #28 this time with interviews with Dennis Pauler, John Chowning, David John Pleasance, Christian Spanik, great articles by former Hugi staffer Lars Sobiraj, and also reports by Andrew Burch, Boris Kretzinger, Martin Ahman, Andrew Fisher and of course as always part 4 of Richard Bayliss’ game coding tutorial with a bonus game…

Gremlins 2: The NES Batch in development for ZX Spectrum

Anthony Perez (greenwebsevilla), veteran of the Spectrum development scene, is in the process of developing Gremlins 2: The NES Batch for the classic 8-bit micro. When horror comedy Gremlins 2: The New Batch hit movie theatres in 1990, a slew of video game adaptations were soon to follow. Sunsoft were responsible for developing a version of the game for the NES,…

Exploding Fish for C64 by Megastyle Now Available

The team at Megastyle are very pleased to announce that their new title, Exploding Fish for the Commodore 64, is now available for digital purchase from their Itch.Io site for just $2USD. Exploding Fish sees you take control of Diver Dougal in an effort to dive deep and defuse bombs dropped onto the protected reefs by the evil Doctor Drax….

Eye of the Beholder, a stunning RPG conversion coming to the C64!

Of the many Dungeons and Dragons games released over the years, one that continues to hold a special place in many gamer’s hearts is Eye of the Beholder. Developed by Westwood Associates (of Command & Conquer fame) and selling in the region of 130,000 copies, the title proved incredibly popular and would go on to spawn a number of sequels,…

ViTNO Review: Bounder (Mobile Edition)

When it comes to retrogaming, “everything old is new again” is a phrase that seems especially fitting given the current predilection for remaking and remastering classic video games for today’s gaming audience. With interest in the titles of yesteryear becoming ever more mainstream, most days herald the announcement of a yet another classic game receiving an update, remaster or re-release…