Category: Retro News
Even after uncountable years out there, Virtual II developer, Gerard Putter keeps working on it and make it even better. A few weeks back, Gerard had released another update for the emulator, but at that time he had to disable the full-screen mode. The explanation he gave me was that the API used to achieve that mode was deprecated and…
ZX Vega+, the nice looking ZX Spectrum handheld has turned into a nightmare for both Retro Computers Ltd and its backers. Today, BBC news just published an article stating that Indiegogo has halted the Vega+ campaign because “of delivery delays and a lack of communication to backers.”. The project has received more than £513,000 (US$624,000) and before Indiegogo intervened, it was set…
Steve Erickson & Mads Kristensen play the Amiga version Taito’s classic 2 play romp and discuss the games various sequels and spin offs! Below is the video that accompanies the episode. [youtube RGOhvV1zmRQ nolink] Podcast: RA_Live_Play_Bubble_Bobble.mp3 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/retroasylum/ YouTube: Retro Asylum Twitter: @retroasylum1 Website: retroasylum.com
MSXdev’17 just got its second contestant, Slime Center by the group N.I. and based on our quick glance at the game, the competition just got harder! It consists of an action game where you have to help the hero to find it is way out from the place where you are trapped. Several items can help you achieve the goal…
Open Apple brings excellent content for any retro computer enthusiast, doesn’t matter the brand. If you want to know a bit more what is going on in the Apple II world, make sure to listen every month! Mike and Quinn sit down with each other and catch up on all the news they’ve been neglecting lately. They discuss the disappointing…
The awesome folks over at Hackaday (sponsors of VCF East) linked to a great article by a collection of Polish computer archivists and museums. One of them was working on an emulator for the Polish MERA-400 computer – but the only known copy of the machine’s OS was locked on 9-track tapes. The CROOK operating system was supposedly stored on…
YAPE 1.1.1 has been released bringing mostly bug fixes. There is also an improvement to the T6721A Toshiba speech emulation, which the developers claim to be unmatched in any other emulator. Release notes: Implemented proper 48-bit mode for the T6721A speech LSI emulation Improved vblanking Save window content to 32-bit BMP Fixed bug related to TED bitmap DMA bank switching…
Juiced.GS subscribers should start receiving the new issue of Juiced.GS soon. The issue 1, volume 22 brings lots of interesting articles, as state the official announcement: This issue features a tutorial for telnetting to bulletin board systems from your Apple II; reviews of the AP40 wireless Bluetooth game controller and the Floppy Emu storage device; an interview with Joe Santulli,…
Immortal C64 Episode 70 – So Soon??. Track Listing : Track Number / Start Time / Artist / Track Name / Track Length 01 .. 0:00:30 – Antti Hannula – Tristesse Again – 2:18 02 .. 0:02:46 – Piotr Kuciapski – Cybernoid – 2:25 03 .. 0:05:08 – Alexander Rotzsch – A Soapbox Opera – 3:33 04 .. 0:08:38 –…
Gamasutra website has published an interview with John Romero about TEd, a tile editor that was used to build many games from the past (including Wolfstein,Commander Keen, etc). The article is the first of a series that will try to cover iconic game development tools. In recent years, retrospectives of classic games have been well received at GDC, but there have…
