Category: Retro News
Last year, one of the biggest news around retro gaming was the discovery of the “Nintendo PlayStation”, which was a prototype of a partnership between Nintendo and Sony (duh!) to give SNES capabilities to use cartridges and also CD for games. RetroCollect reports that there is a file named SDBR_v0.95.sfc that seems to be legit, but they are still investigating…
The Last Ninja was one of the most successful games released on the Commodore 64, and no one won’t agree with that statement. If there is someone, that person is simply wrong! One of the many highlights of the game is its music, and now it might be possible to listen to the soundtrack as rock/metal covers. It all depends on…
Covert Bitops has released a new game for the Commodore 64, Hessian, a 2D arcade game where you control Kim, a security guard. From the game manual, “Take the role of Kim, a low-clearance security guard working a permanent night shift (on her request) at the Throne Group Science Complex. One night, she wakes up inside a cargo container converted to an…
Nightmare Busters is a new run & gun game developed through the partnership of Super Fighter Team and the game’s developers, Christophe Gayraud and Jean-Christophe Alessandri. “Synchronized with the wavelength of dreams, the miserable Tyrant has discovered a way to enter them and convolute what children see, hear and feel while they sleep — all for the benefit of…
Retro Emulator Vision and Game (REV’n’GE) issue 49 in both Italian and English editions. The contents of the February issue: Altered Destiny Alternate Reality: The City Astro Pinball CDTV Genlock Dem Doctor Doom’s Revenge Genesis: Beyond the Revelation Rescue of Lorri in Lorrinitron Rescue on Fractalus! Retribution Rick Dangerous The magazine is available as free download following the link below….
Stack Overflow is a site for question and answers widely used by the software development community. It is valuable because all issues and answers can receive up/down votes, and they stay forever, accessible at any time. This is the second attempt to create a Stack Exchange site exclusive for vintage computer hobbyists interested in restoring, preserving, and using the classic computer and…
Amiga Future #119 is planned to be available in March, but you can check what they are baking for you. Previews: Playfield, Spice Obsession Mod for Dune 2, Amiga Racer. Reviews: Elves Dreamland, Shokaku, Beam, Zerosphere, Kikugi, Luettje Bookholler, Simplemail, OS4 Depot, Redit, AISS, MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.10, DosBox pn AmigaOS 4, XBench, Portable AmiKit MK2, C64 Forever 2016, KMTech…
RGCD has a post an article entitle “Developer Diary: Powerglove (Amiga)” telling details of the effort Lazycow is putting to develop a port of his own game for the C64 with the same title. If you are interested in Amiga development, the article covers some tricks the developer is using to accomplish the incredible visuals that are shown in the article….
Jeroen Tell from Maniacs of Noise has published a preview of the music remake of the title theme from the Commodore 64 game “Cybernoid”, originally published in 1988 by Hewson Consultants Ltd. The music is still a work in progress and it will be part of the album “Tell Me More” with remakes of C64 game music. When ready the…
The biggest french Amstrad CPC party, the ReSeT #28, will take place in Coutances – France from 24th-26th June 2016. It is open to all computer enthusiast and for everyone who is intersted in coding, electronics, graphics, music, etc.. Competitions: Demo: No size limit. The entry must be runnable on CPC 6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension. Intro (256b,…
