Category: News
Beta 5a of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been released. For more information about the game, check through our older posts and the EAB thread link below. It’s been close to a couple of weeks since I last posted so I thought it best I provide a progress update and to let you know…
We have recently learnt News of a new game preview release by Retrobytes. It’s our understanding that “World War Simulator Part II” will be released coincide the Amstrad Eterno event in Barcelona, from Saturday April 21st until Sunday afternoon April 22nd. The game shares similarities to Pandora’s “Into the Eagles Nest” originally released way back in 1986. World War Simulator…
As mentioned in our earlier post, today starts the new addition of our website Homebrew Games database. Over the next few months, you will start to see our team adding new Homebrew Games to the site on a regular basis. Please remember that any Homebrew titles we have listed in the database that are not free will always link out…
Since the recent release of the C64 Mini by Retro Games Ltd, there has been a large influx of Commodore 64 activity on various social media platforms, predominantly Twitter and Facebook. Even people who haven’t played the C64 since their childhoods have dusted off the cobwebs to pay tribute to the good old beige breadbin. Some of you may be…
Please forgive the ugly outdated under construction image above, but we are a retro computing website after all, and what is the best picture to represent a maintenance announcement like this one!? ;-) If you didn’t notice yet, all the original apps and games on our download pages have been removed, and there is a good reason for that. In the…
Jamie Lendino, author of Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, has published an article at Extremetech.com telling how he found out his book was pirated and put for sale at Amazon, just next to his own. It seems an author named Steve S. Thomas has taken Jamie’s “Breakout” book and copied it word by word and made it available…
After the very bad news about the case production, Henrique Olifiers has published new updates providing some light from within the darkness. First of all, he tells us that they have found two suppliers that already worked with SMS in the past and with good results. The two suppliers have already accessed the files and both are promising cost and delivery…
In the last update, we discovered that the empty socket at highlighted item #2 was intended to hold the character ROM chip. In this update, I’m going to cover tracking down the contents of that ROM chip, the equipment we’ll need to replace the missing chip, and the basics of EPROM burning. Along the way, I’ll cover a couple more…
Fans of Yu Suzuki’s classic Dreamcast titles are likely to be rejoicing at the news unveiled by Sega today, announcing that it plans to release updated versions of Shenmue and Shenmue 2 for PS4, Xbox One and PC gaming platforms some time during 2018. It seems fitting that the announcement should be made at this point in time, given that Suzuki currently working…
In a surprise announcement on it’s official Twitter account, Sega has unveiled an early prototype of a new, miniaturised edition of it’s classic Mega Drive console to coincide with the classic console’s 30th anniversary. Currently assigned the working title of “MegaDrive Mini”, full details are only just beginning to emerge across the web regarding the micro-console revealed live on stage…
