Category: Retro News
Retro Asylum, Episode 179 has been released. Steve Erickson & Mads Kristensen talk to Juan J. Martinez about his most recent games and how it is to develop modern games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64. Listen: Retro Asylum Podcast, Episode 179 Website: retroasylum.com
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of VirtualC64. VirtualC64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Mac OS X. New in Version 1.8 The Keyboard Manager has been reworked. In the keyboard menu, you can now choose between symbolic and position-based assignment. When using symbolic key assignment, the emulator tries to map a pressed key using its ASCII representation. Up…
Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. Episode 12.1, Łukasz Kucharuk interview is now available to listen and download. Download: Amiga-Ireland-S01E12.1-Luke-Kucharuk.mp3 Website: amigausers.ie
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2018-03-17. 2018-03-17 new: Megademo 4 (Kefrens & 7up Crew) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2018-03-16 new: Megademo 5 (Kefrens) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2018-03-12 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) added quit key and intro skip to the OCS version of…
Barbarian, The Ultimate Warrior by Palace Software was first released for the Commodore 64, back in 1987. Later on it was also ported to the Amstrad CPC, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II and MS-DOS. The developers licensed the game to Epyx, who published it as Death Sword in the United States. In the game’s…
A few days ago, Allan Turvey kindly sent me over the “ZX81 Birthday Edition” of his awesome ZX Spectrum game Roust. Roust is a ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. You can read more about Allan’s game in our previous posts here. The new birthday edition, is pretty much the same game, except it’s been skinned over…
Beta 3 of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been just been released today. For more information check through our older posts about the game here. Download: bombjack_beta_3.adf Previous Posts: Bomb Jack Beer Edition
By 1993, the Commodore Amiga was going through something of belated mid-life crisis. Though once a technical marvel of the computing world, Commodore had failed to invest or innovate in the Amiga’s hardware to any significant degree. Although the A1200 and AGA chipset had launched the previous year, the majority of the Amiga user-base was still using A500 or A600…
The World of Next website is a new independent resource for finding and sharing ZX Spectrum Next software. As the Next community grows and evolves, more and more software, games, demos and utilities will be written and this site aims to be the #1 resource. In time, you will be able to browse a large database, rate and comment on…
Yes that’s right folks! TheC64 Mini is very close to release, with only 12 days to go! YouTuber The8BitGuy, managed to snag one of these before release date. He announced on Facebook yesterday, that he will be uploading a video with details about everything you need to know about TheC64. So all your questions you have been asking like, ‘Does…
