Category: News

C64 Gamers’ Choice 2018 Winner Announced

It’s amazing to reflect back on the Commodore 64 gaming scene during 2018. Many hobbyist programmers have dedicated their spare time in creating wonderful titles for the classic 8-bit personal computer and it has gotten to the point where there barely is a week where there isn’t at least one new freeware title released. When my RetroGamerNation YouTube channel’s coverage…

Site News: December 2018 Update

It’s been a while since we posted our last site update, but with the festive season fast approaching we thought we’d take a moment to reflect on 2018, as well as our plans for the year ahead. It’s been a busy few months for the ViTNO writing team, and we really hope you’ve all been enjoying our content as much…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 61: RoboCod

In this years special Christmas episode, AMIGArama and Robocod set out to save Santa. But can they stop the evil Dr. Maybe from stealing all the presents and a few Penguins along the way?

Scene World Podcast Episode #58 – Richie Knucklez

AJ Heller and Joerg Droege talk to Richie Knucklez who is very famous for his Donkey Kong-Off Arcade Competition events, his skills in repairing Arcades to make them look again like new from factory, and his strong bounds with good old Twin Galaxies, when Walter Day still ran it. We cover everything about arcades in this interview, Twin Galaxies, high…

Firmware 1.2 brings Galencia to TheC64 Mini plus hints of some big news!

Retro Games Limited has announced the release of firmware version 1.2.0. for TheC64 Mini emulator. The latest firmware provides the following enhancements: the full version of GALENCIA added to the built-in game carosusel for you to play; introduction of a Virtual Joystick option allowing you to select all the options on TheC64 Mini and even play game just using a…

RGCD C64 16K Cartridge Game Dev Competition 2019 announced

Commodore 64 game devs looking to dust off their 6502 skills have an opportunity to prove their coding chops in the Retro Gamer CD 2019 16KB Cartridge Competition.

Amiga Forever 7 Plus Edition and Two Amiga Games for 5 bucks! (and two readers won codes!)

Together with Groupees.com, Dennis from Remute.org just started a sale campaign of Amiga Forever 7 Plus Edition and two Amiga games: Heroes Of Gorluth and Tales Of Gorluth II. It follows the idea of Humble Bundle, where you can name your price, starting at USD 4.99. To make it even more interesting, Denis kindly sent us two codes and we…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 60: The Addams Family

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky, The Addams family. But can these scary fellows handle AMIGArama?

Shareware games history book in the making

Author of the well-received The Secret History of Mac Gaming, Richard Moss is now working on a new book called Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet (working title) where he is writing about shareware games released from the late-1980s through the 90s. To fund the production costs, the author is running a crowdfunding campaign at https://unbound.com/books/shareware-heroes/. Looks to me an…

Neural Networks and AI used to upgrade Doom graphics

Upscaling AI tech used to breathe new life into id Software’s artwork, with stunning results!