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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
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…
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…
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…
Juiced.GS subscribers should start receiving the new issue of Juiced.GS soon. The issue 1, volume 22 brings lots of interesting articles, as state the official announcement: This issue features a tutorial for telnetting to bulletin board systems from your Apple II; reviews of the AP40 wireless Bluetooth game controller and the Floppy Emu storage device; an interview with Joe Santulli,…
The episode #70 of FloppyDays has been published featuring an interview with Michael Tomczyk where he tells everything about the development of the VIC-20. Michael was with Commodore for some time, was an assistant to none other than Jack Tramiel, and was the leader of the team known as the Vic Commando Team. You can download FloppyDays following the link below or stream…
If you, like me, have a pile of Commodore disk drives that don’t work, this video might be useful. Published by Jan Beta channel on YouTube, the video shows the steps to fix a 1541 disk unit. The drive didn’t spin up if you turned it on and didn’t react at all to commands from the computer. LEDs were working. Spindle…
Immortal C64 Episode 70 – So Soon??. Track Listing : Track Number / Start Time / Artist / Track Name / Track Length 01 .. 0:00:30 – Antti Hannula – Tristesse Again – 2:18 02 .. 0:02:46 – Piotr Kuciapski – Cybernoid – 2:25 03 .. 0:05:08 – Alexander Rotzsch – A Soapbox Opera – 3:33 04 .. 0:08:38 –…
It has been released ‘Break Free’, a new game for the TI-99/4A developed entirely in GPL Assembler. The gameplay is similar to Arkanoid/Breakout, but with a small difference: to pass the level, you are supposed to break only enough bricks to find the key that you let you get out, but not all of them. The game has six levels, the…
Gamasutra website has published an interview with John Romero about TEd, a tile editor that was used to build many games from the past (including Wolfstein,Commander Keen, etc). The article is the first of a series that will try to cover iconic game development tools. In recent years, retrospectives of classic games have been well received at GDC, but there have…
