Category: News

The New Dimension (TND) Latest Updates

Latest downloads over at The New Dimension are as follows: The Hunter by Igor Errazkin Super ACE 1942 by Igor Errazkin Main Ninja by Igor Errazkin Antarta by Igor ‘Errazking’ Errazkin SEUCK COMPO 2016/17 Koalapaint Picture Music Linker V1.0 Thunderload Multi-Load Companion Website: tnd64.unikat.sk

Latest GTW64 updates, Reviving the Unreleased!

Frank Gasking runs the awesome website GTW64, which is a C64 focused project attempting to find all incomplete and lost C64 games, and archive them for all you lovely Retro Gamers to enjoy! Todays updates are as follows.. American Dream Squire Soda Shop Equinox The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The Liquidator C64GS cartridge titles Last Ninja 4 Legend Of Kyril…

Commodore 128 Complete Restoration and Board Repair.

The 8-Bit Guy takes a look at a Commodore 128 that he bought on craigslist in terrible shape. He then completely restores it to ‘as new’ condition! Check out the video below. [youtube wLp6bzG9exk nolink] YouTube Channel: The 8-Bit Guy

Slime Center – New MSX Game and second MSXdev’17 contestant

MSXdev’17 just got its second contestant, Slime Center by the group N.I. and based on our quick glance at the game, the competition just got harder! It consists of an action game where you have to help the hero to find it is way out from the place where you are trapped. Several items can help you achieve the goal…

Open Apple Podcast #68

Open Apple brings excellent content for any retro computer enthusiast, doesn’t matter the brand. If you want to know a bit more what is going on in the Apple II world, make sure to listen every month! Mike and Quinn sit down with each other and catch up on all the news they’ve been neglecting lately. They discuss the disappointing…

AGD 4.7 Released

This afternoon Jonathan Cauldwell released a new version (4.7)  of Arcade Game Designer for the Spectrum.  This new release fixes several known issues and gives users some new great features which will make for even better games using the system in the future. Link to AGD 4.7 Here’s the low down… 4.7 06.03.2017 – added STOPFALL command added S and…

Unboxing and review of Cinemaware Retro’s Limited Edition release of “Defender Of The Crown” for the ZX Spectrum

  Andrew Fisher, one of the editors of Scene World Magazine did an unboxing and review of Cinemaware Retro’s Limited Edition release of “Defender Of The Crown” for the ZX Spectrum. Watch it on our YouTube channel: http://scene.world/Spectrdfcrwn

Build your own Handheld Retro Gaming Device!

The March issue of MagPI magazine brings one of our favorite subjects: retro gaming! There were articles in the past talking about building a retro gaming machine using a Raspberry PI, thanks to the RetroPie project, but this time around the magazine brings detailed instructions about how to build a portable gaming machine for you retro needs on the go! The…

Recovering data tapes the hard way: CROOK OS

The awesome folks over at Hackaday (sponsors of VCF East) linked to a great article by a collection of Polish computer archivists and museums. One of them was working on an emulator for the Polish MERA-400 computer – but the only known copy of the machine’s OS was locked on 9-track tapes. The CROOK operating system was supposedly stored on…

Commodore Plus/4 Emulator YAPE Updated to Version 1.1.1

YAPE 1.1.1 has been released bringing mostly bug fixes. There is also an improvement to the T6721A Toshiba speech emulation, which the developers claim to be unmatched in any other emulator. Release notes: Implemented proper 48-bit mode for the T6721A speech LSI emulation Improved vblanking Save window content to 32-bit BMP Fixed bug related to TED bitmap DMA bank switching…