Category: Retro News
Aric Wilmunder, the interviewee of Antic Podcast Interview 104, is the creator of the real ‘Star Raiders II’ for the Atari 8-bit. The game was never released, until now. The creator has posted on Internet Archive the unfinished game (ATR file), alog with a guide to controls in the game and “The Authoritative Star Raiders II”, Aric’s description of why the…
There is always space in our heart to read about the Commodore history and my favourite part is the beginning of the 8-bit era culminating with the Commodore 64. The website LowEndMac has published a good summary of that era with the article “A History of Commodore’s 8-bit Computers” by Dan Knight. The article starts with a short paragraph about…
Retroinvaders website has made available the Commodore 64 Calendar 2016. Created by Josepzin from Retroinvaders using the theme “Prizes Commodore manía 2014/15”. Each month of the year gets an illustration from a release competing in the compo. There are versions for several languages, including Spanish, German, Portuguese and English. All area available on CSDb as PDF files, ready to be printed….
S.A.M – Software Automatic Mouth is a a software-based voice synthesizer for the Apple II. According to A2Heaven, SAM is designed to be easy to use, and with a couple of simple program statements, the user can add speech to your BASIC or machine language programs. You can see by yourself how it sounds like watching the video demo below. [youtube…
Revenge! is a magazine in PDF devoted to games and vintage hardware as well as emulation of various systems. Some of the featured articles and reviews this month: Megaman Hysteria Reviews Wings of Fury Trivial Pursuit Console Forever Download: Rev’n’GE
Scene World has introduced a new feature – Video Reviews of new Hardware and Software for your C64. Kevin Casteels, aka Alterus starts by reviewing the latest hardware for the C64: The WIFI modem, created by Schema. [youtube TeuQVKRsObk nolink] Link: Scene World
For the Amiga community, AmigaRemix is very well-known for many years, but for many of our readers, it might be something new. AmigaRemix has added this week a batch of new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. This is the list: Dune 2 (Ingame ambient mix) Stardust Memories – daXX Remix Apidya – The Pond (Save The Last…
Amiga Meditations’ Stuart Williams tells us the story of the Amiga 1500. Yes, that is not a typo, it is not Amiga 500 or 1000 or 1200, it is the Amiga 1500, sold exclusively by Commodore UK. But also he offers interesting details about another A1500 available at that time, which was, in essence, an upgrade kit for the A500….
Cloanto has released a new version of Amiga Forever, its emulation software package for the Amiga. It also has released the C64 Forever 2016. Amiga Forever is the official Amiga emulator, preservation and support package brought to you by Cloanto, Amiga developers since 1986. “After almost two years of hard teamwork since the 2014 versions were released, it may seem like the…
Few days ago we reported that Saboteur! for Commodore 64 was getting a port for the Atari 8-bit computers. At that time, the released version for Atari had no colors yet. Terence “Tezz” Derby joined the project this week with Mariusz “mariuszw” Wojcieszek to help with the port of the game. He has reported on Atariage about his progress: “Much…
