Category: Retro News
WebMSX, despite the usual prejudice against browser-based applications, is one of the best MSX emulators around, offering performance, rich features and mobile compatibility. Paulo Peccin has announced a new release. Version 5.3 includes: Additional 5.37MHz (1.5x) CPU Turbo speed Light version with C-BIOS Machines CRT Scanlines simulation MegaRAM Extension (256KB – 2MB) Left-side Touch Control buttons Full Windowed mode (Shift…
It is that time again! We are finally releasing the Commodore 64 CSDb demo releases from May, 2019. There was nothing less than nine demos (one-file demos and full demos) and one better than the other, so I recommend you watching them all. I particularly liked What Is Special Order #937, Hokuto Force’s homage to the movie Alien, released 40…
Valerio Cannone is a hardware developer known for repairing vintage arcade machines in his spare time. Valerio shares some of his knowledge with Joerg, and gives us some insight into his history, what drives him, and why keeping vintage arcade machines functional is important in the 21st century. (Interview begins at 8:40)
A few days ago, Christie’s Auction house sold another Apple 1 for whopping $470,000 and when I read about it my first reaction was “yet another one…moving on”. That thought made me wonder why I would think like that. The Apple 1s are no less rare than they were a few years ago when the first ones had surfaced, and…
I confess I was unaware of this project until I saw the news on Call A.P.P.L.E. Thanks to them, ViTNO can share the good news. The CRPG Book Project is a collaborative, non-profit effort to create a free, easily available ebook on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games. The project started in 2014 and finally, late last year was finished….
I think everyone reading this has good memories going to newsstands or the magazine section of a computer store and browse the many computer magazines available (when they weren’t wrapped in plastic bags!). Atari owners would look for the Antics and ANALOGs, Commodore fans for Compute Gazette, Your Commodore, and so on! There were also the 300-page multiplatform magazines like…
RetroShop has been secretly working on an official case for MiSTer FPGA. The new case will allow enclosing the MiSTer board as well as the Terasic DE10-nano. The case is made of FR4 (a composite material composed of woven fiberglass cloth with an epoxy resin binder that is flame resistant) and it was designed by Alexey Melnikov, who also designed…
Last Sunday, the Commodore 64/128 Programming Facebook group was carrying on its business as usual when received an invaluable gift from Michael Archer – the source code of many Commodore 64 games he programmed between 1986-1992. Michael is not referring to some game he made for his own pleasure and kept it hidden all these years. He’s talking about major…
Ricardo Quesada has launched an interesting product: The Unijoysticle™ 2, an adapter that allows the use of modern game controllers, like the ones used on an Xbox One or PS4, on your retro computer It supports multiple controllers (for one or two players), and there is also a new “enhanced mode” that allows you to control the two joysticks from…
















