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WebMSX is a fully featured MSX emulator that supports nine generic MSX machines using both PAL and NTSC. Developed using Javascript/HTML5, the emulator runs on any platform, and it was tested in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. A new version 5.0 was made available recently with the following features: NetPlay! Connect several users on the same Virtual MSX machine over the…
As promised, here is the official announcement of the new book by Brian Matherne covering 34 of the best homebrew games available for the Atari 2600. The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion: Volume 1 is now available on Amazon in paperback format for US$ 12.99. Here is the book’s description from Amazon’s page: The Atari 2600 is alive and well, with new…
Amstrad CPC owners who are fans of platform shoot’em up games likes Turrican and Metroid, may have been looking at Steel Ranger for the C64 in envy over the past few months wondering when they would get to receive an equivalent quality title for their beloved machine. Well ESP Soft has provided Amstrad owners with a great response in the…
Since it’s launch at the beginning of April 2018, our homebrew gaming database has gone from strength to strength with almost 100 titles available online for our community and site visitors to download. However, the best is yet to come, and retro gaming fans will be pleased to know that our team has been busy sourcing yet more of the…
The good ol’ Atari 2600 is getting too much love lately! Michael Salzman, a prolific author of many books about games for the Atari 2600, has just announced his new endeavour, a monthly printed fanzine dedicated to the Atari 2600: The Unauthorized Atari 2600 Throwback Zine! In the interest of trying new things I am proud to announce my new Atari…
We received a quick update from Brian Matherne, author of the upcoming book about homebrew games for the 2600 saying that the book was already submitted to Amazon for review and it will be available at any time now. As we reported earlier this month, the book will feature 180 pages covering 34 homebrew games, including images, reviews, “making of”, and more!…
Today I have some exciting Gaming News regarding the ZX Spectrum Next. You may already be aware that Dungeonette by Adrian Cummings has been released. I secured my copy a few days ago and I must say it is a fantastic game – highly recommend that you purchase it! You can still play the game even without a ZX Spectrum Next…
Roy Johan Widding contacted me today to let me know that Endurion (Georg Rottensteiner) will be one of the new game coders in Megastyle together with Scroll (Ruben SPaans), Docster (Kåre Johannesen), FX, (David Eriksson) and Microbit (Chris Stanley). For those of you that aren’t aware, Megastyle are the guys who are working on the upcoming c64 game Mancave –…
California-based chiptune composers 8 Bit Weapon (Seth and Michelle Sternberger) recently unveiled their new album to the world on April 23 2018. Named “8 Bit Weapon” (presumably after the group themselves), the new release comprises 7 tracks that experiment heavily with the original Game Boy 8-bit CPU/4-bit sound chip to create an album with a distinctly industrial vibe, mixed up…
Fans of Amstrad’s GX4000 console might be excited to learn that a new, high-quality conversion of Capcom’s seminal coin-op, Ghosts’n Goblins, has been released for free over on cpcwiki.eu by the game’s developer! Those of us who grew up during the 1980’s will remember just how poorly so many arcade conversions for our humble 8-bit micros turned out to be, so…
