I came back from the Manchester Play Expo 2017 with one of my beautiful walkman’s earphone speaker channel not working. I knew it wasn’t my earphones since this walkman has auto reverse and switching it to the other side worked perfectly on both the stereo channels. This indicating that the break was between the tape head and the circuit board….
RETRO magazine (not the British Retro Gamer one!) issue #13 is out, conveniently on October 31st! While normally one issue costs US$2.99, this issue is free if you use the code R137BX2NYFTT during checkout, which is a nice gift and good way to let the word out about the magazine. If you are interested in a Physical format for this issue,…
The PC Engine Software Bible website has revealed it’s final present this month. HuTOWN is a kind-of-game where you wander around a town, entering buildings to reveal special rooms based on specific PC Engine games. Each room contains icons that, when picked up, give information, opinions and screenshots of the game in question. There are also special animations that can…
To coincide with Halloween, this weekend (Oct 27, 2017) saw Netflix release its second season of Stranger Things — a sci-fi/horror TV series about a band of kids joining forces to battle supernatural forces in their small Indiana town — to a very enthusiastic North American audience. The first season is set during the early 80s and contains all of…
It was reported that wildfire in the Santa Rosa area in the US has destroyed the building that was used to store the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard, the tech pioneers who in 1938 formed an electronics company in a Palo Alto garage with $538 in cash. More than 100 boxes of the two men’s writings, correspondence, speeches and…
Aetherbyte Studios has just released a free game to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of NEC’s PC Engine console (known as the TurboGrafx-16 in the US). Nantettatte Engine is a ‘Score Attack’ shoot ’em up, modelled on the classic Astrosmash and is available for download as a free ROM. You can download the game here. Source: Aetherbyte.
How about celebrating Halloween playing a high-quality ZX Spectrum game deeply inspired by classics like Cybernoid, Equinox and Druid!? Meet Sophia, a game where you are a young master wizard girl on a mission to save the Empire from destruction and humanity from enslavement! The game presents the following features: 4 levels 85 screens 20 different enemy sprites 5 tunes Final boss…
Freeze64 has established itself as a mandatory reading for all Commodore 64 enthusiasts out there with rich content that will satisfy the retro gamer, the collector, and even the retro programmer. Issue 14 is now available with the following content: Cosmic Cruiser Cover Feature Interview With Gary Penn Making Of Cosmic Cruiser With Paul Clansey Desert Island Disks With Chris…
We all know that deep, really deep inside your fancy Windows 10 there is still a function call do_msdos() but what we may not know is how it actually all started. To help to close that gap, Rem’s Classic Computer website has a new article telling the history of MS-DOS (and IBM PC-DOS, for that matter). There are plenty of information about…
Ingo Hinterding, known as “Awsm” on CSDb has released his browser-based sprite editor for the Commodore 64 – Spritemate. Since it runs on any modern browser, Spritemate can be used on Mac, Windows, and Linux (or virtually any device that has a browser that supports Javascript). It also supports the most common file formats for the Commodore 64. This is…
