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Rocket Smash EX Review – Commodore 64

New Year…. New C64 games, they just keep coming. As soon as I started playing this, it dawned on me that this was familiar, I was sure I had played this before and yep it seems this is an updated version of the RGCD 2013 cart compo game by Saul Cross and John Christian Lønningdal. Turns out this was also…

GDC 2015 – Warren Robinett talks about his game 'Adventure' for the Atari 2600

Warren Robinett, the veteran programmer, designer and The Learning Company founder known for his groundbreaking game design work at Atari, TLC and NASA, has given at GDC 2015 a Classic Game Postmortem lecture on the creation of his hit 1979 game Adventure for the Atari 2600 console. ‘Adventure’ also contained one of the earliest known “Easter eggs” ever hidden in…

Antic – The Atari 8-bit Podcast #19 is Full of Goodies

The episode #19 of Antic is out, and it if full of interesting discussions and information. Some of the content: The release of source code for Action!, BASIC XL, and Star Raiders ROB (Player/Missile Podcast) fills us in about Atari emulation on the Android Brad gives a technical overview of the Atari 400 and 800 machines Randy tells you everything…

Amiga Emulator for Android Uae4all2 is back to Google Play

The user lubomyr on English Amiga Board has announced that he was able to published the Amiga Emulator for Android again, under a new identification, as well as replacing the screenshots that could be the cause of the copyright complains that caused the software to be pulled out on the first place. He also warns that this version is only…

Amiga Emulator for Android Uae4all2 is back to Google Play

The user lubomyr on English Amiga Board has announced that he was able to published the Amiga Emulator for Android again, under a new identification, as well as replacing the screenshots that could be the cause of the copyright complains that caused the software to be pulled out on the first place. He also warns that this version is only…

The Battle of Britain’s Home Computers – Seminar at CCS

If you live in UK, you might be interested to know that the Computer Conservation Society is organizing a seminar, where Gareth Halfacree will cover some of the biggest moments, technologies and personalities from the period between late 70’s and early 80’s that led to, as Commodore founder Jack Tramiel famously put it, “computers for the masses, not the classes”…

Brand-new and colourful original cases for your Commodore 64C

It is happening now a Kickstarter campaign very different than the usual retro-game/book we see all the time. ‘Original Commodore 64C Computer Housing in New Cool Colors’ promises you cases for your Commodore 64C made using the original production molds for the housing for that model. You can buy them on Bright White, Bright Red or Royal Blue for $35…

Retro Computing Roundtable episode #95

On this new episode of Retro Computing Roundtable, the host will be Paul Hagstrom, with the help of Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston. The host topic is The gear left behind outweighs the needs of the few, or the one – There will come a time when whatever we have in our collection becomes somebody else’s responsibility. What should we be doing?…

Original Commodore 64C Computer Housing in New Cool Colours

It’s finally happened, the one thing all you Retrogamers have been longing for!A Kickstarter project has started to bring your old Commodore 64 back to life with brand new original Commodore 64c casing! The target goal is $10,000 and it has already reached $6,502! Looks like this may become a reality! Currently you can choose from three different colours, Red,…

Amiga-Emulator Uae4all2 removed from Google Play Store

Amiga News reported today that the maintainer of the Android-port of the Amiga emulator Uae4all2 has been informed by the team of the Android-app-store “Google Play Store” that his application has been removed. The message sent by Google explains that the application was removed due to violation of the intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior provisions of the Content…