Category: Retro News
2018 was a banner year for commercial C64 releases, none more surprising — or more well-received — than GIANTS Software’s hit game Farming Simulator. AJ and Joerg talk to GIANTS’ Martin Rabl about how the C64 port came to be and why retrogaming is such a big part of gaming culture. The interview starts 12 minutes into the podcast. Listen…
John Linville posted on RetroChallenge website an early call for potential participants of the upcoming Retro Challenge that will officially start next March. The basic rule of the contest is “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for a month”. It is the ultimate remedy for all of us, procrastinators! John asks for the participants to…
Apple II emulators for Windows and MacOS received small updates that might interest you. Virtual ][, our favorite Apple II emulator for MacOS, new version 9.1.1 brings small fixes found in version 9.1. In macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) the Apple II screen was shown all black or sometimes semi-transparent. This has been fixed. Fixed a crash that occurred if the…
AMIGArama goes on a arcade hunt for a Bubble Bobble beater but can Qwak finally be the game to put that quest to an end? Lorfarius sets out on his weekly Amiga gaming trip to find out! https://amigarama.com/episodes/amigarama-podcast-episode-67-qwak/
Ricardo Saraiva has announced today a 1-week special sale of the very desirable MISTer FPGA board IO5.5 Blue Board Edition (the latest version). He has made available 50 units of the board, fully assembled with the fan included for only 34,90€, down from the regular price of 45,00€. Some details taken from the MISTer Facebook Group: – This sale ends…
Looks like January is emulator update season as we see so many releases, and probably still more to come. This time around WebMSX 5.1 has been released. WebMSX is a *really* good MSX emulator written in Javascript that runs directly in your browser and works as good as any desktop-based option around. This are the changes: OPL4 Wave Sound (no…
Early this morning, the Internet was taken by storm (!!!) when the first photo of an assembled ZX Spectrum showed up. Then I said in the Facebook thread that I would only believe it there was a hand typing on that machine, and sure enough, Mike Cadwallader not only posted an update but made it a video, not a photo!…
If you just arrived from Mars where you lived for the past 40 years, Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 emulator available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. As an open source project, the emulator can be also ported to many other platforms. The new version 6.0 brings dozens of fixes and new features, mostly targeting the use of new underlying…
Already a tradition in the Retro Computer Enthusiast’s community, the 2019 edition of the 10-Liner Contest has started and will run through March 30th (6PM CET). Sponsored by Homeputerium, the contest challenge all BASIC programmers to come up with something amazing using only 10 lines of code. Since its establishiment eight years ago, the contest has received 312 10-Liners! The…
This is a quickie! Last Friday, Henrique Olifiers posted a quick update in the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing us a glorious picture of the ZX Spectrum Next keyboard! We’re now waiting for it to arrive so we can proceed testing the fit with the case and move ahead towards full production and shipping! Today, we saw another message…
