Category: Retro Gaming

FloppyDays Podcast features Commodore VIC-20 with line up of former Commodore stars!

The FloppyDays podcast is already well-known to dig deep into the history of many computers from the late 70s and early 80s. Episodes from the past already covered the TRS-80, the TI-88, HP-85 and many others. FloppyDays always bring the experts in the subject to participate as co-hosts or to give interviews, which enriches the content making the podcast a must…

Castle Capers, New AGD Spectrum Homebrew Release by Gabriele Amore!

The dream fairies have been kidnapped by the evil Mouse King and his acolytes. Use you magic to rescue them. Made with AGD for your beloved color-clashy Zx Spectrum! Castle Capers is probably my most joyful, colourful game. I spent long hours to get the graphics just right and it is my true act of love for my beloved Speccy. Thanks Jonathan Cauldwell…

‘Total Recall’ Playable Scrapped ZX Spectrum Demo Version Released!

The previously uncontrollable demo is now controllable!, thanks to Adrian Singh who hacked the code on the demo to enable the keyboard. Amazingly this is the first piece of hacking he has done for at least 27 years. Hats off to him! Thanks to him for taking the time to do this. Keys are: ‘A’ – up / pressed with…

8Bit Civilizations Demo, Fan Remake of Civilization 2 for the C64 by Fabian Hertel!

Civilization is a global strategy game released in 1991 by MicroProse under the direction of Sid Meier, who weighs as legendary within the industry. It is one of the most popular and most successful games of all times. The player has the task to guide a tribe from the New Stone Age through the history of mankind up to the…

Bomb Jack DX, C64 Arcade Port, Beta 4 Video and Exclusive News Updates!

We had a chat with our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64 recently and he has sent over some fantastic “Exclusive News!”, regarding the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Retrofan has uploaded a new Beta 4 video to his YouTube channel and as you can see, the game is looking Fantastic! First thing you will notice, OneBitman has completely remade the Music…

ROMhacking.net Latest Updates

Latest updates over at romhacking.net are as follows: Rom Hacks 999: Faster Text Speed (Improvement)(999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors)(NDS) NBA Jam 2K17 (Improvement)(NBA Jam: Tournament Edition)(SNES) Bomberman Cx (Complete)(Bomberman)(NES) Atari Man III (Improvement)(Mega Man III)(NES) Bugs Bunny Crazy Castke Atarisized, The (Complete)(The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle)(NES) Super Mario Bros. Atarisized (Improvement)(Super Mario Bros.)(NES) Return of Double Dragon –…

A tour of the Personal Computer Museum. One of the largest interactive computer museums in North America (Article by Kirkwood Rietveld)

Situated an hour from the city of Toronto, and two hours from the Detroit/Windsor border lays a very unique museum designated to the history of personal computing. The Personal Computer Museum located at 13 Alma St, Brantford, Ontario Canada is home to an interactive display of over 50 functioning computers, with over 1000 total in storage, over 25,000 pieces of…

Commodore 64 CSDb Scene Release Updates!

As you may of noticed we now try to cover the best Commodore 64 cracks from CSDb, however with all the many releases on CSDb, you may miss some. Below are all the releases from 14th January to date, click on the name of each one to view more information. Asteroids Arcade GFX #001, Casino Wheel 64, Camel’s Back, C64 Maze…

Unofficial CD32 Release, Graftgold: The Complete Amiga Works

A new year, time for a new release for the CD32, and another in the Publisher/Developer series, this time Graftgold, a independent developer that made some great Amiga games over a 7 year period from 1989 to 1995. The games included on the disc are; Empire Soccer Fire & Ice Fire & Ice CD32 Fire & Ice Xmas Demo Paradroid…

Boxx 3, New Amiga Platformer by Lemming880

Lemming880 from English Amiga Board recently released a new Amiga game. Boxx 3 is a brightly coloured run and jump platform game that takes old ideas, new ideas and swishes them altogether with a pinch of Ami Love and the result is very nice indeed. Playing much like a Mario game (except your a green Ninja, or maybe a Robot?), you run and jump…