Category: Retro Gaming

SIGI, A Fart for Melusina, New Retro Platformer for iOS

zapposh recently emailed us about a new game for iphone and ipad. ‘Sigi, A Fart for Melusina’ is a new retro style platformer with beautiful cartoon graphics and some potty humour thrown in. If you like a game that is not too much of a challenge, something less stressful than say ‘Ghost and Goblins’, then be sure to check this one out,…

Classic Game Covers, Confessions of An Art Junkie by Mike Winterbauer, 100% Funded!

The Kickstarter for a new book called “Classic Game Covers, Confessions of An Art Junkie” has been 100% funded! With still 7 days to go there is still time to push it to the max to reach the stretch goals too. So head over to the project page to secure your copy now! https://ksr-video.imgix.net/assets/015/896/987/82ad0f2b0d6bf45cdc9b0c2147178a43_h264_high.mp4 Website: kickstarter.com

LWTools 4.14 – New version of the cross-development toolkit for the TRS-80 CoCo

LWTOOLS is a set of cross-development tools for the Motorola 6809 and Hitachi 6309 microprocessors. It supports assembling to raw binaries, CoCo LOADM binaries, and a proprietary object file format for later linking. It also supports macros and file inclusion among other things. The version 4.14 has been released bringing the following changes, including explanations from the author: The “forwardrefmax”…

Preview Video of Matteo’s Land, A New Commodore 64 Giana Hack!

Rufus over on Lemon 64 Forums has posted about his new upcoming C64 Giana Hack called Matteo’s Land. The Great Giana Sisters is a 1987 platform game developed by Time Warp Productions and published by Rainbow Arts. This German video game is known for its controversial production history, its similarities to the famous Nintendo platform game Super Mario Bros., and…

SD-BOX Updated to Version v1.18

The SD-BOX is a cartridge with an SD card interface for the Commodore 64. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Improvements for the SID player (RSID, PSID, title, author and publisher), Datassette, disk-drive, cartridge restart and an update for the manual. Website: http://www.c64.com.pl Links: Source

VICE Commodore Emulator Updated to Version 3.1

The Commodore 64 emulator Vice has been updated to version 3.1. VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, Syllable or Mac OS X machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C64DTV, the C128, the VIC20, practically all PET models,…

The Retro Hour Episode #65, The UK’s Most Popular Retro Gaming Podcast Interviews Psycho/Budbrain!

The Retro Hour is a popular English Retro Gaming Podcast run by Dan Wood, Ravi Abbot, Joe Fox and Paul Kitching. The guys have interviewed various famous people in the Retro Gaming Scene, including big names such as Rob Hewson, Jonathan Cauldwell, The Oliver Twins and Jim Bagley. This week the guys secured an interview with the famous Psycho of Budbrain. Budbrain is the…

The Retro Hour Episode #64, The UK’s Most Popular Retro Gaming Podcast Interviews Ben Heck

The Retro Hour is a popular English Retro Gaming Podcast run by Dan Wood, Ravi Abbot, Joe Fox and Paul Kitching. The guys have interviewed various famous people in the Retro Gaming Scene, including big names such as Ben Daglish, Bil Herd, Allister Brimble and David Pleasance. Last week the guys secured an interview with the great Ben Heck. For the small amount of you that…

WHDLoad V18.3 Final Released! Plus the Latest Amiga WHDLoad Install Updates

We have been giving you the latest updates from the WHDLoad website since 2011 (Pre-CiA Times) and today we have a fair amount of new installs to share with you, plus some fantastic News! WHDLoad has been updated to final version 18.3! Click here for the list of changes in this version. 2017-04-06 New WHDLoad V18.3 released, have fun! 2017-04-06…

How Thimbleweed Park would look like on a Commodore 64

Every now and then, during our daily visits to CSDb we happen to see some nicely done graphics, demos, games, or music. Today I was happy to see this graphics + music homage to the newly released game Thimbleweed Park created by Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, Secret of Monkey Island). The program made for the Commodore 64, which can be also…