Category: Retro News
The National Museum of Computing is a remarkable institution that keeps an even more remarkable collection of computers, from mainframes to early desktops. The only “problem” is that they are located in the UK, which is too far from Canada, making harder for me to visit it anytime soon. This “problem” was minimized today, with the release of a 3D tour…
MSX Center is a new website dedicated to the (as you would guess) MSX line of computers. As stated by the website “About” page, MSX Center’s purpose is to promote the usage of MSX computers, support developers of new software and hardware, and expand the user community. Behind the new site, we have Javi Lavandeira is well-known from his blog series…
First of all, if you are wondering about what is a game jam, “it is a gathering of people for the purpose of planning, designing, and creating one or more games within a short span of time…”. With that out of the way, today a ZX Spectrum game jam has started as we announced before. During the next 13 days,…
Blake Patterson has published a blog post and a demo video about a new device that a lot of people in our retro community have been talking about: the Wifi232, an inexpensive device that lets you BBS the way it was meant to be done, on hardware from the golden age of the Bulletin Board System. Since the device connects…
AmigaRemix has been updated with the following remixes of iconic soundtracks: Shadow Of The Beast II – Title (Chillout Edit) Blue Berry (Cover) Darkman007 Turrican II – The Desert Rocks (Trance/Dance Remix) SLL1 Remix v2 Lizardking’s Theme (Epic Transition) A Final Hyperbase Leander – World One Once in a life (Turrican3 End Theme) (Psyria Reconstruction Edit) You can listen or…
The 8-Bit Guy has published a video where he walks us through the restoration of a CoCo 1 he acquired. The computer was in really bad shape, with a lot of dirty and the paint was worn off in different spots – a really ugly machine. I watched the video and he did a really good job, although I would think…
Martin Piper has released a new version 2.2.0.3 of his Windows-based SID composer tool. This release contains bug fixes and adding a new reference documentation for Dynamic track/table/block. To celebrate this new release, there is a new video showing the tune MeanStreak, composed by Matt Gray in 1987 and remake by NecroPolo in 2010. If you know nothing about chiptunes compositions, it is…
CSDb (Commodore Scene Database) is our source of Commodore good news since 2011, and we are always getting surprised by what the Commodore scene is capable of. This time the surprise came in 3D! Wolf3D is a port of Wolfenstein 3D based on the original ID Software source code. The game requires a C64/C128 equipped with a SuperCPU v2 and 16MB…
Victor Trucco has just posted some interesting new images from Sinclair designer Rick Dickinson regarding the positioning of the two 9 pin joystick ports on the ZX spectrum Next. Victor Trucco: It’s possible to see that the connector isn’t touching too close to the table, even with the Next legs opened. On this version too, the new RPi position with…
This is not retro since it is a brand new computer with modern hardware. However, it runs AmigaOS so we are all over it :) Ars Technica has an extensive review of the A-EON X5000, a new desktop that features a dual-core Freescale CPU up to 2.5GHz, up to 64GB of RAM and runs AmigaOS 4.1. Most of the review…
