Every now and then I feel a little nostalgic for the “good ol’ days of gaming” and try to uncover hidden gems I may have missed the first time around. I especially enjoy taking a look at older, award-winning games that were previously hailed as ‘future classics’ and ‘masterpieces’ — I get my kicks seeing just how far they’ve come…
Flashtro the website that offers many cracker intros viewable in your browser, released a 6 level Amiga game preview. The game is called Alco-Copter. Collect items while carefully flying your cute little helicopter to safety. The game requires 1 MB Chip-RAM. We test played the game on the Amiga 1200 and also WinUAE Emulator. Download: flashtro_ac_preview.zip Website: flashtro.com
REV’n’GE (Retro Emulator Vision and Game) is a multi-format PDF Retro Gaming Magazine. Available in Italian and English translation, REV’n’GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers including Amiga, Atari ST/Falcon, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, Oric-1 and more! Issue #81 includes Amiga articles: Mega Phoenix, Santa’s Xmas Caper, Xmas Lemmings 1991 and Demo Maniac V1.17, as well as News and reviews for…
Over on the Raliza Software website there are two excellent Amiga Homebrew games available for download. The first game is called ‘Roadtrip’ and as the name suggests, it involves cars. Race your red car against the timer while avoiding other cars and many obstacles on the road. Collect wrenches and money bags for extra score and drive really fast to…
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…
