Batman Group Shows off Horizontal Scrolling with a New Mario Demo on the Amstrad CPC!

While flicking through Twitter this morning, I came across a short video by Batman Group posted by Jose Maria. The video below shows an interesting Mario demo with a clear example of horizontal scroll on the Amstrad CPC. We can see how the character moves smoothly along the small designed stage. Obviously, at present it is nothing more than a proof of…

Amstrad CPC development library ‘CPCtelera’ version 1.4.2 has been released

CPCtelera is a C library for cross development for the Amstrad CPC 464, which also includes a set of tools including a tracker, image editor, Visual Studio code support and more. The version 1.4.2 has been released just in time to be used in the Amstrad CPC Game Development competition CPCRetroDev’17. Features included in this release: Updated SDCC compiler from version…

ZZap!64 magazine high resolution scans available on Internet Archive

ZZap!64 is a magazine published in UK from 1985 to 1992 that covered the C64 and other Commodore computers. The magazine scans have been around for a long time but if you are one of those that sometimes wish for a better scan, you are lucky because it is now available on Internet Archive the full run of the magazine scanned in…

New Atari console ‘Ataribox’ teasing photos released

Atari has released some photos of its upcoming (?) new console, Ataribox. The console shows a slick design that reminds us of our old pal, the Atari 2600, featuring an HDMI port, USB and SD slot. There is not much to it other than the pictures, though, so we can only speculate. The Ataribox team also released a press release…

Altirra 2.90 released

Version 2.90 of the Atari 8-bit system emulator Altirra has been released. Altirra is a high-quality, cycle-exact emulator for the Atari 400/800, 1200XL, 600/800XL, 130XE, XEGS, and 5200 systems. Altirra runs on Windows XP-SP3 or higher and also runs quite well under Wine on Linux. New features include: 65C816 CPU speed can now be changed on the fly without a…

C64 Reloaded MK2, Available in first week of August!

We recently posted only the other day about the new “Ultimate64“, a C64 FPGA board with an Ultimate II+ built in! This is very exciting News and I have added this board to my “to-buy” list. However I have just found some more C64 News regarding a similar project, not FPGA based but a new reproduction C64 board. Casian over…

Victor Trucco Shows ZX Spectrum Next WAV Capabilities!

Those of you who are closely following and maybe even backing the ZX Spectrum Next, may be pleased to know that Victor Trucco recently added a new video on YouTube showing WAV files playing on the Next! I am pretty savvy when it comes to computers and technology but the way this was achieved kinda flew right over my head…

KraxxUltima, The Uncracked Tracks! on SLAY Radio Tonight!

Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 19:00 USRT KraxxUltima, The Uncracked Tracks! Kraxx is back again, so tune in and listen to a crazy swedish guy playing C64/Amiga tunes and babbling continuously through your auditorial pathways. Click here to tune in now ;-) Website: slayradio.org

Baggers on Ladders, Jim Bagley’s New Work in Progress ZX Spectrum Next Game Updated!

Good Afternoon.. Here is the Bagley News .. Jim Bagley’s New Next game has been updated! The official name for the game has been decided and it will be called “Baggers on Ladders”. To celebrate the new name, Jim has implemented walking up and down ladders! As you can see from the video the game is coming along nicely, Donkey…

New FPGA C64 mainboards to be produced by 1541 Ultimate

1541 Ultimate has just announced their intention to produce the Ultimate-64 – a re-implemented mainboard for the Commodore 64 computer. It features a complete FPGA implementation of a C64, including an Ultimate II+, and a socket for a real SID chip! The board is already capable of running some demos and will be software-upgradable to reach maximum compatibility as time…