Category: Retro News
Since the recent release of the C64 Mini by Retro Games Ltd, there has been a large influx of Commodore 64 activity on various social media platforms, predominantly Twitter and Facebook. Even people who haven’t played the C64 since their childhoods have dusted off the cobwebs to pay tribute to the good old beige breadbin. Some of you may be…
Please forgive the ugly outdated under construction image above, but we are a retro computing website after all, and what is the best picture to represent a maintenance announcement like this one!? ;-) If you didn’t notice yet, all the original apps and games on our download pages have been removed, and there is a good reason for that. In the…
Jamie Lendino, author of Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, has published an article at Extremetech.com telling how he found out his book was pirated and put for sale at Amazon, just next to his own. It seems an author named Steve S. Thomas has taken Jamie’s “Breakout” book and copied it word by word and made it available…
After the very bad news about the case production, Henrique Olifiers has published new updates providing some light from within the darkness. First of all, he tells us that they have found two suppliers that already worked with SMS in the past and with good results. The two suppliers have already accessed the files and both are promising cost and delivery…
If you are a lover of Retro Video Games and would rather not keep downloading game roms, cluttering up your hard drive, then LoveRetro has you covered. This website features all your favourite Retro Games available to play online through emulation, completely for free! Providing you have a reasonably fast internet connection, you can sample the delights of many classic…
WinUAE Version 4.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes. Have fun! :-) Download: winuae_4000b2.7z Download: winuae64_4000b2.7z Release Notes: eab.abime.net Website: winuae.net
Retro Games Limited has released firmware version 1.0.7 for TheC64 Mini. Unfortunately this firmware update does not include the promised Advanced Launcher that would allow a straight forward method to play roms from a USB stick or allow disc swapping for multi disk games. Retro Games have stated that version 1.0.7 fixes “an issue encountered on some two-player games when…
Fans of the eagerly awaited ZX Spectrum Next will be excited to learn that the very first commercial game for the ‘Next’ generation of Spectrum has launched and is now available for purchase over at softwareamusements.com. Viewed from a top-down perspective, Adrian Cummings Dungeonette bares the hallmark of all good dungeon crawlers, requiring the player to tackle an increasingly deadly…
Magic Blocks is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 (also C16 with 64Kb) and the Commodore 128 where you play Archimedes, a sorcerer that needs to learn how to use the Magic Blocks to move around the mazes and find his way out. Each of the 16 levels has different levels of difficulty with a different structure. In some rooms,…
As you might know, the MSX platform is very popular in Brazil, with an extensive and very active community. The only thing that was missing was a new printed magazine. Until now! Mario Cavalcanti has contacted us to announce the launch of a new quarterly magazine next June. Clube MSX will have the standard magazine size (20,5 cm x 27,5…
