Category: Retro News

First Contact by Genesis Project, Enterprise

One of my favourite C64 demo groups ‘Genesis Project‘ recently released an oldskool demo, which came first place for Function 2016 Event. Unusually not for the Commodore 64, but instead for a lesser known platform the Enterprise computer. The Enterprise is a Zilog Z80-based home computer first produced in 1985. It was developed by British company Intelligent Software and marketed by…

Defender of the Crown, Never Released ZX Spectrum Version Limited to 250 Units!

Defender of the Crown – ZX Spectrum The never released port! Developed in 1989 from “THE CAT” but due the lack of interest it was never official released. This is also a FIXED Version. Besides the .rom that you can find on the internet this version has the missing screen and is fixed for 48k/128k ZX Spectrum. Delivered in Box…

Romhacking.net Latest Updates!

Lates updates over at romhacking.net are as follows: Change Cube Voice Clip Removal (Improvement) (Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin) (NDS) Mega Man 7 MSU-1 (Improvement) (Mega Man VII) (SNES) Boat Race (Complete) (BB Car) (NES) Xenogears VWF Pack (Improvement) (Xenogears) (PSX) Thousand-Year Door+ (Improvement) (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door) (GC) MKDS N64 Circuit (Complete) (Mario Kart DS) (NDS) Sonic in Super…

WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 8 Update – The Worlds Greatest Amiga Emulator!

Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 8. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes link, have…

Continued Adventures in the Distant Galaxy of VIC-20! (Written by Stuart Johns)

As some of you will remember, not long ago I got myself a Commodore VIC-20. This was a new one on me, having previously only dipped a thruster into the Commodore Galaxy via the C64 and the Amiga. But I do love my early 8-bits…. Well, I can tell you that I continue to be impressed! The VIC-20 doesn’t have…

New Homebrew Game Boy Arkanoid Clone ‘Retroid’ Available For Free!

Retroid is a Game Boy game based on the classic arcade game that was originally published as “Breakout” by Atari and later brought to perfection as “Arkanoid” by the Japanese software firm Taito. The player controls a paddle at the bottom of the screen that reflects a ball to destroy bricks at the top of the screen. That simple but…

WebMSX 3.0 – Best MSX browser-based emulation gets a new version

‎Paulo Peccin‎ has just announced that his great browser-based MSX emulator was updated to version 3.0. New in Version 3.0 Fully customizable Keyboard, Joysticks, Joykeys and Mouse Joykeys support. Emulate MSX Joysticks using Host Keyboard Virtual buttons. Map Host Joystick buttons to MSX Keyboard keys New mappers added. Several improvements and fixes WebMSX is an open source online MSX emulator…

Pinball Dreams on the Amstrad CPC? You better believe it!

Batman Group (creators of Batman Forever Demo) have returned with some jaw dropping news! Pinball Dreams (yeah that awesome game that was on Amiga) is coming to Amstrad! Apparently using only 40% of the Amstrad’s capabilities is a pretty amazing feat. Graphics for the game will be created with Perfect Pix, a graphics tool released by the group themselves, which…

Commodore 64 English translation of Text-Only Adventure THE BEYOND!

The Dutch Text-Only adventure ‘The Beyond’ written by P. Nydam & K. Bos, has been translated to English by K.C. from kc64projects. In this game you are walking near a hotel. This hotel is built on one of the 7 gates to hell! Your task is to find a way to close this gate before it is to late. The…

Commodore 64 CSDb Scene Release Updates!

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Dodo V0.9, Onward Ride, Cat Barf, Refugee Story, Burner, Entry, Smiley, Rad, Matala Haerpaeke!, Thermos!, Back To The…, Hätä, Oetoekkae, Close Enough, Sini Is My Biaatch, Rrakkauteni, 9, Vectordreams, Kikkeli, This, Sami Hedberg -darra, Pandora’s Slate, SYS1024, LISP 128, Old Skool Intro, Oldskool Cylon, Galza-25 (C64 Edition), Carrier-Bourne Fighter Simulation &D, The…