Category: Retro Computing History
John W. Linville, from the CoCo Crew podcast, has published an article showing his design of an adapter that allows you to use SEGA Genesis (or Megadrive) with the CoCo3. Also, he mention that a dual-joypad version of this adapter was produced and built by his podcasting partner Neil Blanchard. You can watch a quick demo in the video below…
The Spectrum Next is, in my opinion, causing more buzz around the retro-computing community than the VEGA and as consequence, people want to know more details about the project. The website Flickering Myth has published an interview with Henrique Olifiers, who is part of the team bringing the ZX Spectrum Next to us. Probably the most interesting piece of information the…
Almost one year ago, we posted about the Xenon 2: Megablast port for the Atari Jaguar. Time enough to almost forget about it, but we didn’t! You will be pleased to know that the game is now available for you to order, directly from the developer Cyrano Jones. We are talking about a boxed cartridge The Bitmap Brothers classic game port…
Eric Schlaepfer has created and built a huge 6502 microprocessor, The Monster 6502 using discrete components. The oversized “chip” measures 12×15 inches and show through LEDs how the iconic 6502 works to process all the data you see in your Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari and many other microcomputers and game consoles we love. It took a little more than…
As we, retro “stuff” enthusiasts know, time flies. Turrican II was released 25 years ago, and to celebrate that mark and talk about this iconic game, Pedro Loureiro made a new episode of his video series. It’s a Pixel Thing episode 90 brings a lot of information about that Amiga classic. Pedro doesn’t stop pleasing the game soundtrack and other…
We usually leave modern games to other fellow websites, as they do a better job covering them, but this one is an exception. You will know why. The upcoming game to be released for the PS4 is a gorgeous modern take on the original Psygnosis title released for the Amiga in 1989. One of the nicest features of the new…
Amicast podcast has a new text interview published. This time, they talk to Toni Wilen, well-known for the development of the Amiga emulator WinUAE. He also is the author of FileMaster, a file manager for the Amiga. The interview covers how he has started, details his work on WinUAE to improve performance and compatibility as well the plans for the ubiquitous Amiga emulator. To read…
Times are magnificent for retro computing nostalgia! After the ZX Spectrum VEGA, VEGA+ and THE64, now we were presented with the ‘Spectrum Next’. Spectrum Next was unveiled last Saturday at the Play Expo Blackpool in UK with a huge reception. The gorgeous new machine is still being presented as a rendered 3D model for now, and it is preparing to debut a crowdfunding…
Amiga CD32 Alternate Covers has released its largest release to date: Team 17 – The Complete Amiga Works. Team17 is a British video game developer, best known for creating the Worms and Alien Breed series. “Most of their early releases were on the Amiga home computer system and featured trademark smooth scrolling, and detailed cartoonish art. Team17 now develops for Microsoft…
CPCTelera is a modern, cross-platform game engine for the Amstrad CPC using the C language. Francisco Gallego, the main developer responsible for the library has announced that, after a long development cycle, the version 1.4 has been released. This is a major release with several new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Also, the license was changed from GPL to LGPL,…
