Category: Retro Computing History
A2Central has let us know that UltimateMicro will begin shipping pre-orders of their new 8Meg IIGS RAM Card v2.0 starting next week. Priced at USD $249 in their store, there will also be a $279 Buy It Now option via eBay. The design of this card started out as a clone of the CVTech 8MB card, but it’s an entirely new…
If you are around 40 years old or younger you’ve probably never used a punch card to code. I, when started college in 1988 also didn’t have a chance to do it, by one semester (I know, 1988 and still using punch cards is kind of weird, but my College didn’t have a big budget!). Now you can experience it (and…
The Last Breakout was made back in the 80ies for the norwegian small company Data-Tronic by norwegian Fredrik Gløckner, and was actually not the last Breakout ever made, despite its name; it is not even one of the better ones, but Genesis Project will nevertheless keep on preserving nice finds for you all to check out. This one was dug…
As reported by MSX Resource Center, after being offline for a while, Cheatmsx is back up and running! Started by Hydragon in 2009, CheatMSX is a collection of gameplay-related information about MSX games. For now, the database contains 29 cheats, 220 maps and 14 walkthroughs, and hopefully these numbers will grow.
The MSXdev team has announced the first entry for the contest! Wing Warrior, a vertical scroll shooter for MSX. Based on the released screenshots, the game is very promising with nice graphics. MSXdev’15 will accept entries until 03/20/2016. For all the rules, access the link below. Link: MSXdev’15
Few days ago we posted the news about another Commodore 65 that is on sale on German eBay. The auction has ended and the rare machine was sold for €22.827,00 (around USD25,000). The winner bid was only 50 bucks more than the second. That might leave a bitter taste for the guy that lost. Source: Nightfall Crew
Retro Computers, the company behind the ZX Spectrum VEGA just announced its Christmas special promotion. For the twelve weeks leading up to Christmas and the New Year, Retro Computers will be placing eleven golden tickets at random into boxes of the ZX Spectrum Vega. If you’re lucky enough to find one, then not only will you receive your ‘normal’ black…
‘Claus’ user on CSDb has released today the game ‘Time of Silence’, a top view graphic adventure game for the Commodore 64. The game is superb, with a refreshing top view perspective. You walk the hero around, and you can interact with people and objects using the menu that shows up when you hit the joystick fire button close to…
Call A.P.P.L.E is an Apple II-centric magazine that started to be published in 1978 and run until 1990, then it came back to life from 2000 to 2010. Today the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange user group has announced that the magazine is back again with Volume 25. The first 40-page issue is available to A.P.P.L.E. members with a number of…
Nowadays, it is all about the Internet, right? We can buy anything from almost anywhere, and for people who chase the latest and greatest collectable retro-game there are good options around the globe. However, sometimes it is nice to be able to shop using the old fashion way: driving to a physical store, browse the titles, talk to the sales…
