Please forgive the ugly outdated under construction image above, but we are a retro computing website after all, and what is the best picture to represent a maintenance announcement like this one!? ;-) If you didn’t notice yet, all the original apps and games on our download pages have been removed, and there is a good reason for that. In the…
Jamie Lendino, author of Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, has published an article at Extremetech.com telling how he found out his book was pirated and put for sale at Amazon, just next to his own. It seems an author named Steve S. Thomas has taken Jamie’s “Breakout” book and copied it word by word and made it available…
After the very bad news about the case production, Henrique Olifiers has published new updates providing some light from within the darkness. First of all, he tells us that they have found two suppliers that already worked with SMS in the past and with good results. The two suppliers have already accessed the files and both are promising cost and delivery…
In the words of Charles Caleb Colton, imitation is often considered to be the sincerest form of flattery. Never was there a truer word spoken than when it comes to Wrath of the Demon, an arcade adventure game developed by Canadian developer Abstrax. Released in 1991 for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST 16-bit computing platforms, Wrath of the Demon was…
In the last update, we discovered that the empty socket at highlighted item #2 was intended to hold the character ROM chip. In this update, I’m going to cover tracking down the contents of that ROM chip, the equipment we’ll need to replace the missing chip, and the basics of EPROM burning. Along the way, I’ll cover a couple more…
Fans of Yu Suzuki’s classic Dreamcast titles are likely to be rejoicing at the news unveiled by Sega today, announcing that it plans to release updated versions of Shenmue and Shenmue 2 for PS4, Xbox One and PC gaming platforms some time during 2018. It seems fitting that the announcement should be made at this point in time, given that Suzuki currently working…
In a surprise announcement on it’s official Twitter account, Sega has unveiled an early prototype of a new, miniaturised edition of it’s classic Mega Drive console to coincide with the classic console’s 30th anniversary. Currently assigned the working title of “MegaDrive Mini”, full details are only just beginning to emerge across the web regarding the micro-console revealed live on stage…
If you are a lover of Retro Video Games and would rather not keep downloading game roms, cluttering up your hard drive, then LoveRetro has you covered. This website features all your favourite Retro Games available to play online through emulation, completely for free! Providing you have a reasonably fast internet connection, you can sample the delights of many classic…
WinUAE Version 4.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes. Have fun! :-) Download: winuae_4000b2.7z Download: winuae64_4000b2.7z Release Notes: eab.abime.net Website: winuae.net
If you’re a regular reader of Vintage is the New Old, you will know that we mostly feature old and new games for Vintage computers and game consoles. We sometimes share News about Retro Game remakes and also on the odd occasion, Indie Retro Games. Today I would like to share some News about a new game by Langford Productions….
