Our old friend Carsten ‘tomse’ Jensen has produced two amazing calendars for the year of 2018. One containing all months on one single page, and the other, the traditional one page per month. Both are full of our all-time favorite C64 game images! The calendars are in PDF and ready to be printed. If you were looking for a calendar, consider…
Tec-toy is a Brazilian toy/electronics manufacturer that had launched, in partnership with Sega, the Mega Drive initially in 1990, around one year after it brought the Master System to the Brazilian gamers. Although it passed through tough times in the late 90’s, the company kept investing in Sega consoles and even launched original Mega Drive games at the beginning of the…
Amitopia has published a nice article revealing that the Amiga sound chip was already capable of play high-quality 14bit sound back in 1985. At the time, the limit was the 68000 that couldn’t get the machine to play raw 14bit wave files. Not sure if that is common knowledge but it is a surprise to me, just proving how advanced…
I hope the title of this post won’t be seen as a bait&click one, as in this new game for the ZX Spectrum you play as a chess piece, but you don’t play the chess game! Knight Hero is an arcade/action platform game where you play as the knight, the only chess piece that didn’t get enprisoned by their enemies….
Slime, a game created by Mr. NOP and released last year for the Commodore 64 (reported here), got a new version just in time for the World of Commodore, which happened last weekend in Toronto, Canada. There are the additional features added to the game: A loading picture Bug fixed the level display Bonus life at 10,000 points Starts in single…
R-Tape from the ZX Spectrum Next forums has recently released a fantastic new Christmas ZX Spectrum Tape Magazine called Woot! Features: -A Next article -Games/Demos from Bob Fossil, TextVoyage, Spud, R-Tape, Mat Gubbins, Utz, Ste Nichols -Articles, puzzles, stuff from various contributors of the scene. Download: Woot_2017_final.zip Download: WOOT_ZXMAS_tapemagazine.zip Source: ZX Spectrum Next Forums
Vintage is the New Old has entered the Top 75 Retro Gaming Blogs starting at number 18! This is fantastic and motivating News for us, we hope you all continue to enjoy the latest Retro Gaming News we provide to you guys. Expect a lot more regular interesting posts in the very near future! Keep it Retro peeps! ;-)
Toni is back again with another Beta version of WinUAE. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below :) Changes – Direct3D11 fullscreen + DXGI 1.5 works again (b11) – D3D11…
It was uploaded to the Internet Archive the only issue of Databar Magazine, a publication that tried to offer type in programs for its readers in a very innovative way. Instead of the traditional listings with source code in the pages of the magazine, Databar presented the programs in the form of a barcode. The proprietary Databar OSCAR scanner was…
Today, I came across this blog post on Ken Shirriff’s blog where he describes how to print a Christmas card on an IBM 1401 mainframe, a pretty popular low-end computer sold throughout the 60’s. Driven by the Reddit’s Retrobattlestation challenge for this month, the blog post is super interesting not only for the Xmas card itself but because it gives us a…
