Category: Retro Gaming

1980 reigns VICtoriously in our house! (Written by Stuart Johns)

A reflection on a new machine in my life; the Commodore VIC-20. All Commodore machines have always held an elusive, golden glow for me. Back in the 80’s I had an Acorn Electron from 1983 onwards, and still have that little beauty now. As Acornified as I was, and still am, I hankered after a C64. Then, towards the late…

First 13 years of Nintendo Power magazine now available online!

My experience with Nintendo Power is recent. I subscribed the last 2-3 years of its existence, and I keep the last issue as a collector item. That said, I never read any of the first issues of the magazine that started circulating in 1988. If you are like me, you can now read the first 13 years of the magazine…

YAPE 1.0.10 New Release!

A new version of YAPE has been released: -show subfolders as type CBM in IEC/filesystem mode -implemented monitor watchpoint/breakpoint ranges -watchpoint context displayed when hit -improved speedometer to cater for non-standard, longer frames -occasionally stuck joystick states when emulated thru the keyboard fixed (long outstanding bug!) -uninitialized variable in a newly optimized part of SID engine patched -digitized palette in…

The Retro Hour Podcast/Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott

The Retro Hour is a professional Podcast ran by Dan Wood & Ravi Abbott. Both being you-tubers and strong in the area of UK gaming culture they decided to create a Podcast with high audio quality and production. The Retro Hour aims to help the world understand the UK and European gaming industry and its roots whilst avoiding the cliché of…

Commodore 64 Game Review: Batman: The Caped Crusader by Robert Joy

Robert Joy is back with a new game review for Vintage is the New Old! Rob has chosen ‘Batman: The Caped Crusader‘ for the good old Commodore 64, Enjoy :) Vitno Reviews Page: http://www.vitno.org/reviews/ Robert Joy’s Website: RAM Retro Arcade Memories

Platoon! Exciting Title, Exciting Gameplay!

Hey there everyone, Clueless Gamer here! It’s nice to be here on VITNO with you all – I cannot believe how much FUN I had playing Platoon! for the Nintendo Entertainment System! Let’s Take a peek at what I found… Platoon – a game with a great title and a nod to one of the greatest movies ever made, ironically,…

Maze Of The Mummy/Psytronik Software – Commodore 64

Psytronik Software in association with Magic Cap present an exciting new release for the Commodore 64 – MAZE OF THE MUMMY! Featuring 15 Pyramids to explore (255 playable levels in total!) there’s plenty of adventuring fun to be had in your quest for treasure! The budget disk version of MAZE OF THE MUMMY is presented in a full colour glossy…

Scripted Amiga Emulator v0.9

Rupert Hausbergers made an Amiga Emulator with the help of Javascript and HTML 5. This emulator can be used inside a modern browser such as Chrome. Changes in this version: Improvements for the CPU, Audio, Blitter, CIA, Config, Copper, Custom, Disk, Drawing, Events, Expansion, Filesys, Gayle, Hardfile, IDE, Memory, Roms, Playfield, RTC en Serial. Source: http://scriptedamigaemulator.net

Raid Over Moscow – Unfinished Prototype Amiga Port!

A partly complete port of Raid Over Moscow (using Adrian Cumming’s art and coded in Blitz Basic) We have some interesting News we found today over on the English Amiga Boards. EAB Moderator earok has released an Unfinished Prototype Amiga port of the game Raid Over Moscow. – Only a few levels. Hangar, Defence and Map screens are done. It’s…

Happiga

Happiga is an emulation system that can be used on a very small computer such as a Raspberry Pi. It uses the UAE4ARM emulator to emulate an Amiga 4000 AGA including Picasso96. You can use a real keyboard and joystick via the Keyrah V2. Changes in this version: An update for Raspbian, support for 128 MB Z3 RAM, a new…