Category: News
Robert Jaeger, the developer of the amazing Montezuma’s Revenge, has shared some photos and a video of his latest project: an arcade machine running his classic creation. This is something I wanted to build just for fun, for my game room and the fans! Using a standard mail order cabinet, the arcade machine is powered by an “old laptop” running…
Disclaimer: I have a long-standing affiliation with Cloud-9, a prominent hardware vendor in the Color Computer community. My commentary here is based partly, but not solely, on experiences with that affiliation. Introduction Manufacturing hardware goods in the vintage computing marketplace is often, if not always, a labor of love. For those who take on the work of melding new technology…
Fusion is a magazine that covers games from all times, from Atari 2600 (or earlier) to modern games. Fusion Retro Books is giving away the PDF version of the first 4 issues during this weekend of May 25, 2019. It is a great opportunity to try them out without spending a penny. The first issue, for example, brings articles about…
Double Sided Games is excited to announce that they will be publishing Vegetables Deluxe, a match 3 style puzzle game with a vegetable theme, for the Commodore 64. Vegetables Deluxe, developed by Mike Richmond, is the sequel to the original Vegetables game that Richmond released earlier this year and submitted as part of the RGCD C64 16K Cartridge Game Dev…
I think everyone reading this has good memories going to newsstands or the magazine section of a computer store and browse the many computer magazines available (when they weren’t wrapped in plastic bags!). Atari owners would look for the Antics and ANALOGs, Commodore fans for Compute Gazette, Your Commodore, and so on! There were also the 300-page multiplatform magazines like…
RGCD has a new blog post talking about Dusan Milivojevic’s Moonspire II project. In order to release a preview of the game on CSDb, Dusan had disabled all incomplete levels but, not surprisingly, cracked versions of the game were released on the same website shortly after, exposing the half-baked/broken levels. This fact almost made Dusan give up and trash the…
RetroShop has been secretly working on an official case for MiSTer FPGA. The new case will allow enclosing the MiSTer board as well as the Terasic DE10-nano. The case is made of FR4 (a composite material composed of woven fiberglass cloth with an epoxy resin binder that is flame resistant) and it was designed by Alexey Melnikov, who also designed…
















