To celebrate the success of the first two issues of The Unauthorized Atari 2600 Throw Back Zine, Mike Salzman has announced that he is giving away Atari 2600 trading cards. To get one entirely free (US and Canada only), you just need to fill out the form linked at the end of this article. The first and second issues sold incredibly well…
The gaming market is awash of retro gaming hardware solutions, providing the ability to play original cartridge games natively up-scaled from their original resolution to allow them to look good on modern HD televisions. Playmaji is looking to take this a step further with the impending launch of POLYMEGA, a modular retro gaming system that supports multiple cartridge based and…
Hyperkin has finally made available for pre-order its new retro console, the RetroN 77. The machine will let you play original Atari 2600 cartridges as well as the original joysticks and paddles. Back in may, we posted an update where the developer had mentioned the desire to price the new console as low as possible to make it accessible to a large audience. Now we know…
Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. This episode contains the following: MilkyTracker for MorphOS A500 replacement case campaign on IndieGoGo Amiga Vampire cards K1208 cards near completion EAB Game coding competition Open X-COM for MorphOS Barbarian+ enhanced for Amiga Provisional Meetup for Scottish Amiga users 4th August in Glasgow And much more! Listen:…
Leonardo Giordani has published since late May a 3-part series with an overview of the Amiga machine language programming. Giordani objective while writing the article was, in his own words, not intended to be a complete tutorial about Amiga ML programming, but a collection of his notes while exploring the machine architecture. Don’t let this statement dissuade you, because the…
Aaron White recently sent over another Amiga music disk. Another 90’s pop classic, “What is Love” by Haddaway. The song is recognizable by its refrain “What is love? Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me… no more” and was a No. 1 hit in 13 countries. If you was a teenager in the 90’s you will most certainly remember this…
Eagle-eyed forumites over at CPCWiki have spotted early signs that a conversion of TAD Corporation’s Toki could be set to receive a conversion to the Amstrad CPC. AmstradGPP, a duo of French developers, recently uploaded a series of images to their Twitter account to showcase progress that they have made on the game. According to the post, despite being amateur…
The Penultimate+ cartridge for VIC-20 is now ready to ship! The Future was 8-Bit has announced that the new VIC-20 RAM/ROM cart will begin shipping tomorrow. The Pen+ adds 3 to 35k RAM (selectable) to your VIC-20 and ships with over 70 ROMs, including the critically-acclaimed Cheese & Onion. The user interface has also been updated to look slicker and…
A new web site and forum has sprung up announcing a project to create a spiritual successor to the C64 and C128. Early specification details include: 65C816 CPU at 14MHz 4MB RAM (split between main / video) Custom graphics chip – code named VICKY – providing 640×480 with 256 colors Dual 6581 and dual YM3812 sound chips Local DMA and…
Continuing our showcase of the very best games added to our homebrew gaming database, we take a look at a 16-bit title first released for the Sega Mega Drive back in 2013. Developed and released by Spanish development team, Mojon Twins, Uwol – Quest for Money is an arcade game released initially for the ZX Spectrum, with various ports and conversions…
