Today I want to look back on the premier magazine for the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer: The Rainbow. But before that, a bit of backstory… Oldies but goodies There are many in the retro computing world that are, for all practical purposes, computer hipsters: too young to have ever owned an 8-bit home computer, but enjoying immersing themselves in…
JustinFrancoeur, besides helping with Vintage is The New Old content, he maintains the website www.dcinthe80s.com which as the name suggests, is a webzine for DC comics fans from the 80s. A byproduct of his website is the fanzine, Baxter Stock which is released in print with no specific periodicity. Back in November or so he told me that he was…
Over at Amiga Remix the following remixes have been added. Click on each title below to listen or right click ‘Save As’ to download. Elf – Forest world [2017 Remix] Apidya – Meadow’s Edge SWIV (Decimation Remix) Apidya – Meadow’s Edge (EXON 2017’s REMIX) Hyperbased [Saturday Night Edit] Ecolove VS Ghost In The Shell voices Return To Monkey Island Theme…
Over at Fusion Retro Books, you can pick yourself up some awesome Retro reading for pocket money prices! At time of writing the following books are on sale at just £1.00! The story of the Commodore Amiga in Pixels_ PDF The History of Ocean Software PDF The Story of US Gold PDF There are many other PDF Retro books on…
As we start the new year, Toni pushes yet another beta release out. Today we see WinUAE 3.6.0 reach beta 16. Read the changes below. – Fixed statefile memory corruption if CPU is 68060. (Introduced when 68040/060 data cache support was added) – Made SA-1000 and SA-2000 suboptions (like SupraDrives) SA-2000 is same as SA-1000 without $f0 ROM mapping. (Old…
WinFellow is a high performance Amiga Emulator primarily targeted for Windows. Today version 0.5.7 has been released. Bug fixes: floppy code was updated to use a track limit > 80; it will output random data beyond track 80 – fixes Outrun/The Games: Summer Edition; also added missing checks for disabled drives, fixing Winter Olympics 94 fixed a bug where unexpected…
Well 2017 is over and we move into a new year with new ideas, new plans and positivity. Today we take a look back on some of the fantastic releases over the last months of 2017. Below I have compiled a (long) list of Retro Games that stood out for me personally, each with a source link and where applicable,…
A new version of Virtual II emulator has been released. The new version 8.0 brings many new features and improvements. The big changes are behind the scenes, resulting in a 64-bit application that is compatible with the most recent MacOS APIs changes. This, at the end, ensures the longevity of Virtual ][ running on this and the next versions of…
Galencia is a new game created by Jason Aldred. At a glance, you could think it is merely a re-skinned Galaga but there is more to it, and we going to take a look here. Galaga is an icon in the video game realm, just next to Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. I remember playing the game on arcades but, although I love…
Kilobyte Magazine is a hobbyist magazine dedicated to 8-bit computing today. This edition contains the following articles: The Art of Floppy Disk Sleeves 50 Years of Logo How a Commodore 64 can produce VR images Book Review: Making Games for the Atari 2600 How to make scrolling possible on the Interton VC4000. Programming the Signetics 2650A One Jump’n’Run rule them…
