John W. Linville has announced the final judging results for RetroChallenge 2017/04. Judging was originally supposed to be done by both Linville and Michael Mulhern, but Mulhern had to drop out due to personal issues. So, without further ado, here is the results list: Richard Loxley won the “Bounty Box” (donated by Mike Spooner) for his “RetroMatic” universal retrocomputer video…
CSDb (Commodore Scene Database) is our source of Commodore good news since 2011, and we are always getting surprised by what the Commodore scene is capable of. This time the surprise came in 3D! Wolf3D is a port of Wolfenstein 3D based on the original ID Software source code. The game requires a C64/C128 equipped with a SuperCPU v2 and 16MB…
Victor Trucco has just posted some interesting new images from Sinclair designer Rick Dickinson regarding the positioning of the two 9 pin joystick ports on the ZX spectrum Next. Victor Trucco: It’s possible to see that the connector isn’t touching too close to the table, even with the Next legs opened. On this version too, the new RPi position with…
Pixel (Sven Michael Klose) over at Vic-20 Denial Forums is creating a new Arkanoid clone titled “Arukanoido” for the Commodore Vic-20. I won’t waste your time with long details about Arkanoid, as I’m sure you are all familiar with this 1986 Arcade classic from Taito. Arukanoido has 33 levels and requires at least 24k memory. Download the game from the…
Romhacking.net have updated their website with some brand new Rom Hacks, Translations and a “Castlevania 30th Anniversary” graphics patch! Rom Hacks The Legend of Zelda: Goddess of Wisdom (The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past)(SNES) Hyper Metroid LLE (Super Metroid)(SNES) Mega Man Wily’s Conquest 2 – Hyper Edition Turbo! (Mega Man II)(NES) Ms. Pac-Man Graphic’s (Ms. Pac-Man (Namco))(NES)…
This is not retro since it is a brand new computer with modern hardware. However, it runs AmigaOS so we are all over it :) Ars Technica has an extensive review of the A-EON X5000, a new desktop that features a dual-core Freescale CPU up to 2.5GHz, up to 64GB of RAM and runs AmigaOS 4.1. Most of the review…
Jamie Grilo has recently released his first game for the ZX Spectrum, titled “The Treasure of Lumos”. The game is heavily inspired by such classics as Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner. If your a big fan of these games, you will feel right at home with this one. Protagonist treasure seeker is on a mission to find the treasure…
The excellent MSX Resource Centre website brought to my attention this new game that will be released in July by Kai Magazine. Myths and Dragons is a fantasy-themed beat ’em up game that also has some RPG elements. This nice addition gives the game more to look for since the players can gain experience and money that will let them upgrade equipment as…
The NPR podcast How I Built This is a podcast about innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. On May 22, they released an episode where they talked with Rod Canion, one of the three co-founders of Compaq Computers. He left Texas Instruments in 1981 after being assigned a project that he felt wasn’t going…
The first big party is over! We’ve been posting a lot of news about the ZX Spectrum Next. Although we are not associated with the developer team, we found the project so interesting that it got us excited. Myself and my Co-Admin CommodoreBlog, have both backed the project and now we look forward to getting our hands on this cool…
