Category: Retro News
Scene group Excess have released an EasyFlash version of Lemmings for your good old C64! -Lemmings was transferred from original tapes as source and cross compared to disk release. -All code was manually disassembled and source code recreated for the team to work on. -Six tapes sides full of 100 levels were manually transferred and hand stitched together. -Custom loader…
We had a chat with our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64 and he has sent over some fantastic News regarding the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Retrofan has uploaded a new Beta 5 video to his YouTube channel and as you can see, the game is looking Beautiful! There has been a lot of new…
Stuart Collier & Trevor Storey have teamed up once again and have recruited the musical talents of Saul Cross to bring you ROCKY MEMPHIS , THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS. Explore the ancient temple ruins on a quest to find the secret of the lost city of Atlantis! Use all your cunning and skill to search the rooms in the temple for…
I am already regretting to write this post since I cannot accept anything Internet-related is vintage. On the other hand, I understand that someone reading this who’s 24 years old would be saying “wow, Mosaic was created before I was born!” so here is the news out of respect of the younger generations! Mosaic, the first popular web browser is…
Gaia has released a new version of YapeSDL, the JavaScript Plus/4 Emulator. Changes: -Debuggable drive -Hunt, vsync, saturation, brightness, hue and gamma correction -Improvements for audio and CRT emulation. Download: github.com
The guys over at C64.com have recently interviewed David Crane. David worked at Atari with Nolan Bushnell in 1977, and co-founded Activision in 1979. David is best known for developing Pitfall, but has also published hundreds of games on the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 400, Atari 800 and other platforms. You can read the in depth interview…
The Retrogaming Times is a Retro Computer Magazine (English language) for all retro computer fans. In this edition; -Prepare to Qualify -Upcoming Events -More C64! – More Than The Human Body *COVER STORY* -Apple II Incider – Star Wars Memories -The Controller Chronicles – TurboGrafx-16 -The Retrogaming Times Newsletter Legacy Archive Is Live -The Magical Vacation – Starring Uncle Edward…
We, “retro” enthusiasts, know well that time goes too fast and we are all aging at the same speed, but we never can expect when someone in the retro scene passes away. This morning I learned through many UK gaming outlets that Bob Wakelin has passed away. He was mostly known in UK and the rest of Europe where Ocean…
It is fairly common to hear stories of people that either kept their first computer since childhood or purchased the same model as the one they had back then. I just had a slightly different experience on my own. I recently went back to Brazil to visit family and attend my sister’s wedding. As any trip of that focus on…
Apple II computer enthusiasts are fortunate to have a very active community and to reinforce that, John Brooks has announced via Call A.P.P.L.E (adding these dots is so laborious!) that a new release of ProDOS is available for download. This is a minor release bringing fixes for the major 2.4 version, released months ago. Release Notes: Bugs fixed: If a directory…
