Category: News
Our new episode is a very special Xmas present! Joerg and Remute had the pleasure to interview the world-famous Acapella band MayTree! Beginning in 2021, the group began releasing a series of YouTube videos in which it covers sound effects used in computer and mobile phone systems. The first video of these series, released in January 2021, covered Windows sound…
After many months of development, a new version of WinUAE has been released. Version 4.10 brings now 100% cycle accuracy for the 68000-based unexpanded configuration. Also, initially planned for this release, the pixel-perfect OCS and ESC Denise mid-screen resolution was pushed for the upcoming 5.0 release. Here are the details: New hardware emulation features and update 68000 emulation is finally…
The December 2022 issue of Juiced.GS has shipped, featuring fraud detection, AppleSqueezer & emulator reviews, an online communities guide and much more!
In our new episode we are covering the Game Preservation Society. It is a non-profit organization actively preserving Japanese retro games from the 70’s and 80’s as cultural assets. The members are describing their project as follows: “We see games as an important asset and work to preserve it for future generations. Our members, although having various fields of expertise,…
The December 2022 issue of PC Magazine will be its last one. Carol Mangis, manager of the magazine’s digital edition, announced the news in her “First Word” column. The magazine started its life in 1982, founded by David Bunnell, Jim Edlin, and Cheryl Woodard. By the end of 1983, the monthly issue had nothing less than 800 pages! At the…
Hyperdrive is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up game for the Amstrad CPC with 64K of RAM or more and the GX4000. The game offers classic shoot’em up action with a smooth one-pixel scroll at 25 frames per second, not often experienced on the Amstrad CPC. Hyperdrive implements the power-up system seen in Uchūsen Gamma (MSX, 2019; by the same author)….
Once again, Logiker comes up with something simple and fun for the retro computing community. This time around, you’ve been challenged to create a program in any language or platform to display the image above – the Christmas Star! Rules are simple regarding your “reproduction”: It should have exactly the same shape The final picture must not include characters other…
The article below, written by Andrea Contato exclusively for Vintage is The New Old is an exciting view of the people that, even without realizing it, built the video game industry as we know it today. Andrea is an Italian writer that has already published “Through the Moongate. The Story of Richard Garriott, Origin Systems Inc. and Ultima” and the…
NesDev Compo is a game development competition that has been a staple of the NES Homebrew community for over 10 years. The 2022 edition just ended, and the winners have been announced – which means you have a lot of new games to play! Michael Sharpe, member of the Team Disposable, who participated in the compo with the game “They…
In our new podcast episode we are talking with Giulia Valentini and Fabrizio Rizzi from Smallthing Studios who are developing a brand new Simon The Sorcerer game! Enjoy and watch out for Simon The Sorcerer Origins! It’s an official prequel to the original Simon the Sorcerer game and transports players back to a few weeks before the events of the…
