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Another great featured article discussing the Cart Wars has been published by Retro Collect. The cartridge was a medium capable of feats that pushed the consoles of the 8-64 bit era well beyond their limits. Packed with graphics chips, battery backups and even camera lenses, the evolution of the cartridge is a truly formidable tale and one that is often…
Retro Collect website has published a short review of the book “Push Start – The Art of Video Games”. “The team have obviously paid close attention to which games to include (and the titles they’ve chosen are presented so well that even the simplest art looks stunning) and the comprehension of the modern titles present is pleasantly surprising. The Last…
Scene World Podcast #3 – The Peruvian SceneDid you know that Peru had a C64 scene? No? Well, the guys over at Scene World speak to Mr Byte who played a key role in building up this scene! Website: http://sceneworld.org
Yes, here we are back with news about Apple 1 auctions and astronomic prices! Today, the Apple 1 up for auction that we posted about few weeks ago, was sold at Christie’s. The surprise is that it was sold for a price below of what was expected – “only” $365,000. Considering that on a previous auction back in October, an…
RetroGamer Collector website has published an extensive and detailed How To teaching how to allow you to connect your beloved ZX Spectrum to your LCD screen using the composite video input. As the Spectrum already has a perfectly good composite signal and there is no need to use the RF circuitry anymore, the process is simple: bypass the RF modulator…
[youtube IpNhWTVQeGU nolink] It is now open the Demo of the Year 2014 Competition, and only demos never released before are allowed to participate, and they have to run on stock C64 without expansions. The deadline is end of February, 2015, and after that, the voting period will happen during the month of March. The video above is the invitation…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Shitmen Intro #32, Ralph Baer Commemoration 2, Ralph Baer Commemoration 1, Attack of the Mutant Aliens +, Round 3×3 V2, Penultimate Fantasy 100% +3DF [pal/ntsc], Graveyard Opus, Fickle [16kb cartridge], Pseudo Techno, Lotek64 #50, Tutti Frutti 64 Preview +2, Brilliant Maze Music Demo, Fickle +5D, Brilliant Maze +2D, Frodigi 5, Mini-Arcade: Climax…
[youtube 5zbtNImG2NE nolink] World of Commodore 2014 happened this last weekend in Toronto. Although it is mostly a Commodore party, there is always space to show off others cool retro computers. On this video, it is shown how back in the day one should load a 4K BASIC into an Altair 8800. After all those steps, the computer will be…
UK1541 is a true drive emulator powered from User Port with IR remote controller and 2,2″ TFT.some videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rBCfPsMFVQmore info: https://www.facebook.com/uk1541drive Source: c64.sk
Rocket Ranger Reloaded will see the fan-favorite hero return in a fresh new take on the classic videogame originally released in 1988. It will feature exciting new gameplay sequences, a much deeper storyline, a larger strategic element and of course beautifully stylized graphics that bring the 1930s and 40s to life! Through shootouts, fist fights, dialogue with various characters, espionage and lab research, the player…
