Category: ViTNO News
John Linville has posted his comments about all entries for the Retro Challenge 2018/04. Since the challenge is not a traditional contest with winners and losers, John’s comments reflect his take on each one of the projects that the participants had worked on during last April. If you couldn’t follow the participants’ blog posts while the challenge was happening, there is…
Eleven new Homebrew games have been added to the database today. At the top left of the website (next to Home), you will see “Homebrew Database”, just hover your mouse pointer to view the drop down menu of games. ;-) Commodore 64 Angry Golem (Max Breedon) Blok Copy (Cosine) Bomb Run 64 (Picaro Games) C64 Mini MultiDisk PD Games (Vinny…
Three new Homebrew games have been added to the database today. At the top left of the website (next to Home), you will see “Homebrew Database”, just hover your mouse pointer to view the drop down menu of games. Commodore 64 C=Rex Offline (Genesis Project) ZX Spectrum Tea-Leaf Ted (Bear Version) (News) Tea-Leaf Ted (Man Version) (News)
Retro Games Limited has released firmware version 1.0.7 for TheC64 Mini. Unfortunately this firmware update does not include the promised Advanced Launcher that would allow a straight forward method to play roms from a USB stick or allow disc swapping for multi disk games. Retro Games have stated that version 1.0.7 fixes “an issue encountered on some two-player games when…
Retro Games Limited has announced that they will be releasing firmware version 1.0.6 for TheC64 Mini on the 5th April 2018. Version 1.0.6 is set to feature the following changes: – Maps additional functions to joystick buttons for some games – Makes minor changes to descriptions for some games – Fixes an occasional scenario where an additional USB joystick is…
As you may have noticed, we have a couple of new writers on Vintage is the New Old. Alec Foster joined us a few weeks ago. You may have already read some of his fantastic Retro ramblings and Retro Game Reviews. Our second new author is Louie Dimovski, he is our latest Retro News Poster and will also be writing…
Since the start of this year the website has exploded with popularity and our daily hit count has hit the roof! (thanks guys!) We are overrun with so many emails and private messages sharing the latest Retro Game News, sometimes we end up playing catch up. If we haven’t shared your News yet, don’t worry, we will get around to…
It was only a few days ago we was very proud to be entered into the Top 75 Retro Gaming Blogs! Yesterday we received another email from tierragamer.com that we have also made to the ‘Top Popular Blogs you should follow in 2018’. Currently we are at number 11 from a list of 92, which we thought was pretty good…
Merry Christmas Loyal Website Followers! We hope you are all having a fantastic Christmas Day! As we approach the end of 2017, we look forward to some new additions we have planned for the New Year ahead. Over the upcoming months, keep an eye out for a new and improved downloads section, more awesome Retro Gaming write ups, and of course,…
Gruber has released a chiptune version of the “Stranger Things” soundtrack. For those of you that have never heard of it, Stranger Things is an American science fiction-horror web television series created, written, directed and co-executive produced by the Duffer Brothers, as well as co-executive-produced by Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. You can listen to the whole chiptune ost over…
