Category: Retro News
A few weeks ago the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4k was on sale on Amazon Canada and I decided to get one, although I already had many other ways to stream Netflix and other streaming services (fact that my sons keep reminding (mocking!) me every time I use the new device). The price was good and I was curious to…
Reading the excellent atari8bit.net and Atariteca, I was fascinated with the Atari Accountant, the most expensive software sold for the Atari 8-bit machines. The accountant suite would cost, at the time, US$ 1,500, price you would pay for the General Accounting, Account Receivable, and Inventory Control modules. On top of that, the wealthy user would have to buy an Atari…
As you might know, Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD) is a game engine tool that makes easier to develop games for the ZX Spectrum. Although AGD is one of the best game engines around for retro computers, it runs on a ZX Spectrum hence it is constrained by the machine’s limitations. This week, Tony Thompson has announced on the…
I’ve been downloading and watching demos for many years now and they keep surprising me. I confess that I don’t watch them all, but I try to do it as often as my time allows me. With the month ending today, I decided to go back and check all the demos published during the month of February, primarily using CSDb…
Peter “JAC!” Dell has compiled a download package containing all programs and games presented during the Silly Venture 2k18, the 10th edition of the biggest retro scene gathering in Europe that happened last 2-4 November, in Poland. The convenient package contains four games, thirteen intros, fifteen graphics, six demos, five POKEY music files and another fifteen “bonus” files. It is…
Released last December (2018), Retro Virtual Machine 2.0 brings ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464 emulation for Windows, Mac and Linux. To set apart from the many other excellent emulators, RVM 2.0 excels with its user interface delivering a faithful “retro” experience packed in a polished GUI. RVM works more like VMWare, Parallels or VirtualBox where you create virtual machines…
It is another freezing Canadian morning and there is nothing better to warm us up than good news (and a hot cup of coffee, of course!) As I was drinking that coffee and reading my emails, there was another update from Henrique Olifiers regarding the most-wanted (and waited) retro-computer project in the past few years! The ZX Spectrum Next keyboard…
We chat with Matthew Smith about his exciting Amiga Power magazine-inspired remix album!
David Taylor has been busy working on Jesse, an interesting project that reminds in Eliza, an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum (Wikipedia). David had contact me send me the following letter about his project, which I reproduce here to help him spread the awareness about…
NESmaker is a recently launched tool allowing you to create NES games without programming experience. The games created with NESmaker can be flashed in cartridges and played in an original NES console. To celebrate the new home brewers using the tool, the The New 8-bit Heroes have launched Byte-off!, a game designed competition. To enter the compo, the contestant has…
