All the NEXT backers have received today an email full of good news. The new keyboard was already tested and approved by the manufacturer and is on its way to UK for the stamp of approval by the team. The new keyboard, based on an extended matrix as explained in the previous update, already proved a 100% accurate on the composite…
If you are into old computers, particularly Commodore, you will have heard of Jan Beta. Jan has a fantastic YouTube channel with many informative videos, discussing repair of Vintage Computers and Electronics. His latest offering specifically stood out for me, being a big C16/Plus/4 fan. Jan has acquired not just one, but four Commodore 16 computers, all of which are…
If there’s one thing the English are good at is inventing a sport, spreading it around the globe and then promptly getting beat at it. Cricket is a prime example, although England’s recent fortunes at the stumps are a mix of great success or catastrophic failure. Released in 1993, Audiogenic brought Graham Gooch World Class Cricket to the Commodore Amiga,…
Issue 59 of Lotek64, the German Retro Gaming pdf magazine is now available to download. Articles in this edition: Commodore-Computer in ArgentinienDie Welt von Drean Spielzeug der 1980er-Jahre als historischer Text Plastik-Mikrokosmos Urlaub machen, wo andere nur spielenUrlaubsziele für Nerds Retrocollector-Edition“ für Nintendo SwitchToki kehrt zurück Schwer, schnell, schön:Frantic Freddie II Das Ende der Fahnenstange: Nintendo vs. C64 Super Mario Bros. 64…
AMIGArama swings into the sahara, singing Hakuna Matata for this weeks Disney special but can The Lion King really live up to its proud and powerful name?
Following last year’s launch of the 1/4 scale replica of the original PAC-MAN arcade cabinet, Numskull Designs has announced that it will once again team up with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment to release Galaga as the second installment in its Quarter Arcade range. Generally considered as one of the world’s most innovative arcade shooters from the early 1980s, the official fully…
This is just a quick plug to a video Phaze101 has published on YouTube teaching step by step how to install and run the Amiblitz (aka Blitz Basic 3) on the Commodore Amiga running on WinUAE emulator. Amiblitz used to be a commercial product that allowed programmers to create Amiga applications using the BASIC language while still delivering excellent performance….
Parisoft has released a port of Berzek for the Nintendo Entertainment System and it is available for purchase on itch.io. Berzek is an arcade game released in 1980 by Stern and later ported to the Atari 2600, 5200 and Vectrex. It was one of the first games to dynamically generate mazes and have synthesized voices. I actually remember it was…
Following 6 months of ASM-hacking, register-poking and generally slaving over a hot keyboard, the C64 community has served up yet another batch of exciting and intriguing titles for this year’s RGCD 16K Cartridge Competition. An impressive 20 titles were submitted by the July 1st deadline, and it’s fair to say that the judging panel has its work cut out this…
Giovanni Nunes has published on his blog (in Portuguese) a version of Nohzdyve for the MSX. The game was featured on Black Mirror’s episode Bandersnatch, an interactive tv show where the main character is a game developer in the ’80s. In the show, the game is one of the releases by Tuckersoft, a fictitious game publisher, for the ZX Spectrum….
