Category: Retro News
Ziriax is a horizontal scroller for the Amiga that was developed by The Whiz Kidz (a group of Belgium-based coders) and released by Software Business way back in 1990. Influenced by Arcade Shoot’em ups such as Nemesis, Vulcan Venture, Sky Shark and Thundercross, Ziriax is a four stage shoot’ em up, in which you fight against waves of bullet-spewing aliens…
Amicast is a podcast about the Amiga, covering everything about the platform, past and present! In this episode the team interviews “Boing Attitude”, a software house for the Amiga, MS Windows and Android. Boing Attitude are responsible for education games software such as “Ask Me Up” and the file manager “Dir Me Up”. Website: Amicast
RetroManCave recently made a video about Retrobriting in the UK. England is well known for rainy days and not much sun, except maybe in the months, June, July and August. If you’re a Retro computer collector, this can be frustrating for Retrobriting your old computers outside. Neil shows us other ways to achieve this, without using the sun, testing different…
Club Info is a German language d64 Magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and Commodore Plus/4. The following articles are included; Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, Assembloids Basic, Castle Matcher, Micromind, Craps, Computer Spass, Digitalstar, Hardware, Rug Rider, Slipstream, Deadline, Rap4 and other systems. Download: club_info_148.zip Source: plus4world.powweb.com
The Retro Hour is a popular English Retro Gaming Podcast run by Dan Wood, Ravi Abbot, Joe Fox and Paul Kitching. The guys have interviewed various famous people in the Retro Gaming Scene, including big names such as Rob Hewson, Jonathan Cauldwell, The Oliver Twins and Jim Bagley. Episode #106 features the highs and lows of DMA Design with Steve Hammond….
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of VirtualC64. (1.7.2) VirtualC64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Mac OS X. New in Version 1.7.2 and 1.7.1 Fixed some bugs regarding drag and drop, loading d64 files and key recording New in Version 1.7 VIC timing is now very close to VICE (Thanks, Fabio!) Cartridge handler has been rewritten. VirtualC64 now…
Planeta Sinclair, a great Portuguese-speaking website about the ZX Spectrum, has just announced the winners of its poll trying to find the best ZX-Dev Conversion. Two highly acclaimed conversions that we have already covered, Mighty Final Fight and Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors have nabbed the first and second place, respectively. There were a total of 173 votes, and Mighty Final Fight took…
Winuae 3.6.1 Beta 5 is now available to download. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience, like in the image above. Download: winuae_3610b5.7z Download: winuae64_3610b5.7z Website: winuae.net
A few days ago, John Blythe announced a new AGD game coming to the ZX Spectrum called Rubicon. Over on Sarah’s Speccy Group, John recently shared a wip title screen for the game. We are loving the new graphics John! Stay tuned for more News from Rucksack Games soon. Read more about Rubicon here. Source: John Blythe
Mike Dailly has put together a quick demo for the ZX Spectrum Next, showing what can be achieved using Copper. For those of you that have maybe never heard of ‘Copper’, it’s a display list processor. Most famously known and used on the Commodore Amiga, and uses very little CPU overhead. Below you will see a short video showing a…
