Category: Scene News
Ninjaforce has released a new version of Kaboom! The version 1.03 brings support for Rev. B of Alex Lukacz’ 4-play joystick card and fix a bug with the setup of the 4-player mode. Kaboom! was released in April and it is a Bomber Man-style of game for the Apple IIGS. You can download the game for free following the link…
Mist is an FPGA Amiga hardware emulator made by Lotharek. It is probably the middle ground between software emulation and the actual Amiga. Many of us, retro computer enthusiasts will probably frawn and say “it is not like the real machine” but it certainly offers great advantages, like the possibility to emulate the Atari ST as well. To help you understand how…
Near mythical tales have been told of the 1983 burial of 700,000 Atari games and products in a New Mexico landfill. Joseph Lewandowski is the man who separated fact from myth to track down, locate, and excavate these games. AJ and Joerg talk to him about the process behind that, and the many interwoven stories that make this such an…
John Linville has just announced that the episode 13 of CoCo Crew podcast is now available, featuring an interview with Wes Kussmaul (the founder of Delphi). Ther is also the usual news, feedback, discussion, technical, and games segments. Link: CoCoCrew.org
There is an entertaining article published today where Zach Hines tells his story to achieve the perfect retro console fidelity, relying on a high-end RGB Monitor by Sony. ” It all started about four years ago when I came into an old Sega Saturn system from the mid-90s. It was an entire console catalog that I completely skipped over back in…
The Reset magazine crew has released the issue #9, with one of the best covers so far, in my opinion! The 83+ pages issue is all about Hewson Consultants. Uncle K’s editorial starts, “It’s with pleasure that we dedicate this issue to one of the finest software houses from the classic 8-bit era, Hewson Consultants. Founded in 1980 by microcomputer enthusiast Andrew…
Retro Games Collector website has been publishing overt the past year a great series of articles about C64 Development. After quite some time, Graham Axten published the 4th part of the series, specifically talking about sound and the SID chip, and the many available trackers that allow you to create the chiptunes for your game. This is a mandatory read…
A while back we announced that the organizers of MSXdev’15 had decided to declare the contest null for a very upset reason: the lack of commitment of the judges to actually analyze and rate the games. Today, however, the same organizer have come public to take the harsh decision back and at the same time to announce the winners of the contest, using…
A1200.NET is already the sweetheart of all Amiga 1200 owners, with its recently successful kickstart campaign for the new A1200 casing. If you are one of the happy backers you might be thinking “my A1200 will have a brand new shiny case, but these old keycaps are awful…” Well, accordingly to Phillipe Lang, you will be able to get brand…
That is interesting! With the retro gaming community growing fast, imagine if all the big publishers decide to open the vaults and start selling old games!? That is what MSX Resource Center announced today, telling us that David F. Gisbert (Tromax) and José A. (Konamito) have launched a petition at change.org, requesting Konami to re-release physical MSX games from their extensive…
