Category: News

Play Retro Video Games Online For Free With Love Retro!

If you are a lover of Retro Video Games and would rather not keep downloading game roms, cluttering up your hard drive, then LoveRetro has you covered. This website features all your favourite Retro Games available to play online through emulation, completely for free! Providing you have a reasonably fast internet connection, you can sample the delights of many classic…

WinUAE Version 4.0.0 Beta 2 Released

WinUAE Version 4.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes. Have fun! :-) Download: winuae_4000b2.7z Download: winuae64_4000b2.7z Release Notes: eab.abime.net Website: winuae.net

Project ZX 2 Jetboot Joe, Langford Productions New Speccy Tribute Sequel Released!

If you’re a regular reader of Vintage is the New Old, you will know that we mostly feature old and new games for Vintage computers and game consoles. We sometimes share News about Retro Game remakes and also on the odd occasion, Indie Retro Games. Today I would like to share some News about a new game by Langford Productions….

TheC64 Mini v1.0.7, Not the Update We Are Waiting For

Retro Games Limited has released firmware version 1.0.7 for TheC64 Mini. Unfortunately this firmware update does not include the promised Advanced Launcher that would allow a straight forward method to play roms from a USB stick or allow disc swapping for multi disk games. Retro Games have stated that version 1.0.7 fixes “an issue encountered on some two-player games when…

Dungeonette, The Very First ZX Spectrum Next Game, Now Available to Purchase as Digital Download & Physical Boxed Edition!

Fans of the eagerly awaited ZX Spectrum Next will be excited to learn that the very first commercial game for the ‘Next’ generation of Spectrum has launched and is now available for purchase over at softwareamusements.com. Viewed from a top-down perspective, Adrian Cummings Dungeonette bares the hallmark of all good dungeon crawlers, requiring the player to tackle an increasingly deadly…

Guns ‘n’ Ghosts, Commodore 64, ViTNO Game Review

Exploring the the back catalog of Commodore 64 games released over the past decade, you will often come across the names of Georg Rottensteiner, Richard Bayliss and Trevor Storey being associated with many of classic hits of the modern C64 era. Soulless, Joe Gunn, Barnsley Badger and X-Force are shining examples that have had at least two this talented trio…

ZX Spectrum Gamer Issue 5 launches with a free copy of Aeon from Sunteam!

Word has reached us that issue 5 of the free, online fanzine ZX Spectrum Gamer has launched and readers are in for a treat this time around. For the first time in the publication’s history, the mag is bundling a free game that’s sure to provide Speccy fans with with plenty of entertainment! Developed by Sunteam and crafted predominantly using Jonathan…

Programming a Dinosaur is More Fun than Describing One – RetroChallenge 2018/04 – Update #4

Ok, I admit it: I lost a bit of focus the last few days. I should have been buckling down and describing the circuit board more, and well, working on getting the machine up and running. Instead I have been using my non-work, non-family time to… … program. In my defense, writing is hard work. “Programming is hard, too!”, you…

We review Ooze for the ZX Spectrum and find a game full of protoplasmic goodness

Ever since I joined the ViTNO team, I’ve been broadening my horizons by taking the opportunity to play a number of modern retro titles, and I’m currently working my way through the impressive portfolio of Andy Johns. I’ve yet to be disappointed by any of Andy’s titles and my hopes were equally high when I came across the intriguingly titled Ooze, co-created…

Magic Blocks – A New Game for the Commodore Plus/4 and 128

Magic Blocks is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 (also C16 with 64Kb) and the Commodore 128 where you play Archimedes, a sorcerer that needs to learn how to use the Magic Blocks to move around the mazes and find his way out. Each of the 16 levels has different levels of difficulty with a different structure. In some rooms,…