Category: Retro News
Just your run of the mill mario-explores-the-universe game. Made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 36. Featuring 10s of Goombas, An Infinite Universe, Muscle Toad, “Original” Music, “Faithful” Physics, Social Commentary about Interplanetary Colonialism, and a Radical Space Ship; No Mario’s Sky is the hackneyed remake-gone-mashup you’ve been craving. For Windows, OSX and Linux. [youtube Bx1B4Y95RHE nolink] Download: https://asmb.itch.io/no-marios-sky
Released by: Protovision [web] Release Date: 31 August 2016 Type: C64 Graphics Over at CSDb, a lovely graphics advert for Sam’s Journey has been released today (nice little teaser). This ‘hopefully’ means the highly anticipated C64 platformer may be near to completion! The release date is still unknown but fingers crossed guys, we could be holding Sam’s Journey in our hands before Christmas? We’ll keep you posted! Download: Sam Advert.d64 Website: protovision-online.com, knights-of-bytes.com…
Epsilon has written a post about upgrading his Amiga 500. He shows how to install the Individual Computers ACA1233n 030 accelerator with optional RTC battery expansion, a 512k memory expansion and a new Amiga floppy drive, complete with a 3D printed drive eject button designed to fit the Amiga 500. Click the link below to read more about it. Website: http://amigax1000.blogspot.co.uk
You can now revive the Roger Wilco adventures and many other created by Sierra Online for cheap! The new Humble “Sierra” Bundle brings Space Quest, Police Quest and many other amazing games for the price you want. For $15 or more you can also get the King’s Quest collection! As usual, the Humble Bundle gives you Steam keys that you can…
Kevin, Brad and Randy have finally managed to take a break from interviewing everyone who ever saw an Atari in the store, and released a rare non-interview podcast. Bill Kendrick co-hosts as the Atarians discuss Atari Party, Kansas Fest, the 1200xl and whatever else they can find on archive.org. Link: libsyn Subscribe: iTunes
The CGRS MICROTECH PEDISK II was an early floppy disk system for the Commodore PET/CBM computer. The PEDISK did not use the IEEE bus like the Commodore disk drives, but instead used a standard floppy disk controller chip connected to the inside of the PET/CBM machine. It could support both 5.25″ and 8″ standard floppy mechanisms as configured from the…
Stefan Egger (Computer Collection Vienna) has purchased an Amiga 3400, a computer that later became the Amiga 4000. It’s a functional unit and there are some differences from the later series production. Some missing parts (upper housing part, HDD holder bracket for the floppy drive, Joyport sheet etc.) are soon to complete the unit. The bracket for the floppy drive is not identical to…
If you love the Lotus games on Amiga, then Amiga Racer by Michael St Neitzel should be the next Racing game you should check out! Requirements are: PowerPC (PPC) CPU 1 GHz, ATI graphics card, keyboard, joystick, sound card and Amiga OS 4.1 FE. Latest Version is 3.62 and you can download it now over at OS4Depot. Also available on the Official Website for the…
Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 3. (beta 2 must of been released fast as we didn’t even notice!) 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…
Courtesy of John R. Hogerhuis on the m100 list, you now have a new way to get your Tandy 100 fix: Right in your web browser! The inspiration was that I wanted to have a Model 100 emulator for my iPhone. A native emulator written in Objective C would be best, but Apple doesn’t allow you to distribute emulators in…
