Category: Retro News

Scene World Podcast #28! With Tectoy Sa’s chairman Stefano Arnhold!

Finally, we have had the chance to talk in our podcast with Tectoy Sa’s chairman Stefano Arnhold! a Brazilian company that helped Sega gain a foothold in South America. AJ and Joerg welcome him to the podcast to talk about his history with the company and with gaming, and about Tectoy’s new Mega Drive Limited. Enjoy listening! Website: Scene World

“Eaten by a Grue” – New podcast covers classic text adventures!

Kevin Savetz (of Antic – The Atari 8-bit Podcast) and Carrington Vanston (of the Retro Computing Roundtable) have launched a brand new, fabulous podcast about text adventure games. In this new podcast, Carrington and Kevin will chose a classic text adventure game, play it for a month, and then talk about it together for our listening pleasure. They reminisce about…

A-EON Prisma Megamix Music Card for Amiga

The Prisma Megamix is a music card for the Amiga computer, and is now available to purchase over at Amigakit. Specifications   Clockport and Zorro II interfaces (if operated in Zorro II slot, clockport can be used for compatible add-on cards)   Compatible with Amiga A1200 T, A2000, A3000, A4000, A4000T.   Based on VS1063 chip   Playback of wide range…

The Retrogaming Times, Fifth Issue, November 2016

The Retrogaming Times is a Retro Computer Magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition; – Prepare to Qualify – Upcoming Events – More C64! – Konami and the C64 (Track & Field, Castlevania and more) *COVER STORY* – Retrogaming Feels – Sinistar – The Return of the Arcades? – A Pirate’s Life For Me – Fourth…

C64 intros Latest Updates

The web page c64Intros have updated their intro database and they have added 50 new intros. New groups added : Legend+Federation Against Copyright, SHC Crackware Essen, Byte Engineers, The+Fantasy, The Real Gamebusters. Website: http://intros.c64.org

Latest Amiga WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 2016-10-28. 2016-10-28 new: Manchester United Europe (Classic) done by StingRay (Info) 2016-10-27 new: Shinobi (Paranoimia) done by StingRay (Info) 2016-10-27 new: Superman (Agents) done by StingRay (Info) 2016-10-24 new: Banging Raves 2 (Intuition) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2016-10-23 new: Banging…

Commodore development tool CBM prg Studio 3.9.0 is available now

CBM prg Studio has reached version 3.9.0, bringing a ton of new features and bugfixes. CBM prg Studio is a free Windows IDE for development in BASIC and Assembler for the 8-bit family of Commodore computers. Changelog: TARGET directive. Logical operators with ‘ifdef’. Complex expressions for constants. Command window. Import SEQ files. CBM prg Studio can be downloaded directly from its…

Retrochallenge 2016/10 results are up

The final judging results are up for Retrochallenge 2016/10. John Linville and Michael Mulhern judged all of the entrants on: Demonstration of skill and/or technical merit Reasonable documentation of the project throughout the course of the month Enthusiasm both for doing the project and for sharing it with the public A certain amount of whimsy or utter pointlessness about the…

The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems

The Atlantic website has published an article where the author, Benj Edwards goes back down the memory lane, talking about his time as a kid accessing the BBSes via a dial-up modem and how liberating that was, before the Internet was really a thing. The article has a good mix of personal experiences and straightforward history facts and I believe everyone…

Chicken Lips Radio – Show 009: Superior Platform

The latest episode of the Chicken Lips Radio podcast is up! Looks like some new hardware acquisitions, an ARM-powered C64, and CommVEx 13 is a go. Link: chickenlipsradio.org Subscribe: iTunes