Category: Retro News

Open Apple special episode: Kansasfest 2016 “Audiocumentary”

Open Apple podcast has released a special episode produced by Mike Whalen about the 2016 Kansasfest. Back in July, Mike attended Kansasfest equipped with his audio production gear. While enjoying the Applepaloosa that happens every year, he captured a series of interviews and biographies. The production is superb in quality and content, giving a vivid image of what is Kansasfest, why people spend…

‘At Arion Line’ – Game for Atari 8-bit available for download

The YouTube channel Zzielins has published a video about the game”At Arion Line – Mission Zero”, a shooter that snatched the second place in a competition held at the Silly Venture 2016 retro festival. There is also a download link so you can try the game. [youtube 3Mu1deX0d8s nolink] It is version 2.7 of the game presented by Tomasz “TDC” Cieslewicz…

Does the largest MSX Collection belong to a Brazilian?

Werner Augusto Roder Kai is for sure the largest MSX collector in Brazil, but with 170 MSX machines in his collection, it is not hard to believe it might be the biggest in the World. The photo above shows only part of his collection, with 145 machines! Adding all software, boxes, cartridges, and accessories the collection would weight easily more…

Is Commodore is Awesome (CiA) dead ?

We have been receiving this question lately, and we thought it would be a good idea to clarify it in a post. As you probably know, the same people manages Commodore is Awesome and Vintage is the New Old, and for a long time we kept both sites separated – CiA for Commodore news and content and Vintage is The New Old…

MSXDev’17 – MSX Development Content has been announced!

MSXDev’17 is a go, and the organizers are back preparing the iconic MSX development contest. This year, the MSXDev team is asking your input about the contest, rules, prizes, or whatever you think would make it a great contest. MSXDev’15 edition had a lot of road bumps, mainly for the lack of interest, even from the judges (you can read…

Atari 2600 Emulator created inside Minecraft

Seth Bling is already known to build crazy things that run inside Minecraft. This week he surprised everybody once again when he presented a fully working Atari 2600 emulator running inside Minecraft. The emulator is capable of reading and running Atari cartridges, which were also built using Minecraft binary blocks structure (dirt or stones). There are no controllers, and the emulator…

AtariCrypt Magazine, a new digital publication for the Atari ST is available now

Atari Crypt is a website dedicated to the Atari ST computers, and today Steve Gregory has announced the availability of the first issue of the AtariCrypt magazine. “Today, I am extremely proud to announce the availability of AtariCrypt Magazine. That’s right folks, a brand new magazine STuffed to the brim full of 16-bit gaming goodness. It has been designed by none…

Freeze64 Fanzine Christmas Edition Available Now!

Freeze64, the Ultimate game cheat fanzine for the Commodore 64 has a new issue available for you to order. The printed magazine brings lots of Commodore 64 content, from games to programming techniques and interviews. This issue content: HUNCHBACK COVER FEATURE: We celebrate Ocean Software’s popular and successful platform arcade game Hunchback, sharing some of our POKES and CODES and…

MSX ‘Tina’s Adventure Island’ cartridge available for pre-order

Imanok, a prolific MSX game developer has announced that he’s taking pre-orders of his upcoming game ‘Tina’s Adventure Island’ for the MSX. According to the developer, you only need an MSX1 computer to play the 64Kb game, which features 35 stages and including 5 bosses. I played a bit of the demo available and the side scroller platformer game shows…

Open Apple Podcast – What Is The Apple IIgs?

Open Apple podcast is now available for download to entertain you during your commute! This month’s episode brings a lenght interview with Alex Lee, the creator and maintainer of the “to-go” Apple IIgs website – What Is The Apple IIgs? “Alex walks through the history of IIgs emulators, and all the ways that the IIgs Finder was actually better than the Mac….