Category: Retro Gaming
The March issue of MagPI magazine brings one of our favorite subjects: retro gaming! There were articles in the past talking about building a retro gaming machine using a Raspberry PI, thanks to the RetroPie project, but this time around the magazine brings detailed instructions about how to build a portable gaming machine for you retro needs on the go! The…
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…
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 –…
It has been released ‘Break Free’, a new game for the TI-99/4A developed entirely in GPL Assembler. The gameplay is similar to Arkanoid/Breakout, but with a small difference: to pass the level, you are supposed to break only enough bricks to find the key that you let you get out, but not all of them. The game has six levels, the…
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…
You may of noticed a slight decline in regular Retro Gaming News updates over the last week, this is due to the dreaded flu. Thankfully I am recovering albeit slowly and the daily posting of News will continue as normal soon. For now though, I will do a quick highlights post, some interesting stuff I have found on the mighty internets…
The New Dimension‘s Richard Bayliss has announced on Twitter that the SEUCK game competition for 2016/2017 deadline has arrived and it has received nine contestants. Now it is time for you help to choose the best ones. To do that, you can head over The New Dimension website, download, play and finally vote. The winners will get extra help to either…
Well, where can I start, it’s been a long ride, Andy was very kind enough to send over various beta versions and then a full version of Temple of Lost Souls, and we spent some good time before release day, play testing the game and discussing ideas and such. Fortunately we found no bugs, and now the game has been…
Frank Gasking runs the awesome website GTW64, which is a C64 focused project attempting to find all incomplete and lost C64 games, and archive them for all you lovely Retro Gamers to enjoy! Todays updates are as follows.. Maze Patrol Escape from London Renegade V1 Kung Fury: Street Rage Lauren of the 25th Century Chelsea of the South Sea Moonstone Streethawk…
Latest updates from Vinny over at c64endings.co.uk are as follows: The Bard’s Tale II: The Destiny Knight by Electronic Arts Airwolf 2 by Elite WEC Le Man by Imagine Website: c64endings.co.uk
