The National Museum of Computing is a remarkable institution that keeps an even more remarkable collection of computers, from mainframes to early desktops. The only “problem” is that they are located in the UK, which is too far from Canada, making harder for me to visit it anytime soon. This “problem” was minimized today, with the release of a 3D tour…
With all the current ZX Spectrum Next hype, we thought we would highlight some new (and old) games that have recently surfaced online. We have a few nice ones to show you today.. Space Junk by Miguetelo Art (music by David Saphier), Zabij Ducha (Kill Ghost) by Ralf, Excalibur and Taxi Driver by QIS, Zelda by Team Zelda ZX, Zelda…
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga chiptunes music disk, titled “A Pain In The Chip”. All tracks were created by Aaron White, CiA Ocean logo is by Retrograde of CiA Group. (with a few edits by Kitty for this Release). Download from the link below and crank up the tunes! :) Download: pain_in_the_chip.adf (A1200) Twitter: @aaronub4t
MSX Center is a new website dedicated to the (as you would guess) MSX line of computers. As stated by the website “About” page, MSX Center’s purpose is to promote the usage of MSX computers, support developers of new software and hardware, and expand the user community. Behind the new site, we have Javi Lavandeira is well-known from his blog series…
First of all, if you are wondering about what is a game jam, “it is a gathering of people for the purpose of planning, designing, and creating one or more games within a short span of time…”. With that out of the way, today a ZX Spectrum game jam has started as we announced before. During the next 13 days,…
Blake Patterson has published a blog post and a demo video about a new device that a lot of people in our retro community have been talking about: the Wifi232, an inexpensive device that lets you BBS the way it was meant to be done, on hardware from the golden age of the Bulletin Board System. Since the device connects…
AmiKit X, the 10th long-awaited major update to a well-known emulation package, was recently released. Originally developed as the main operating system for A.L.I.C.E. (A Laptop Incorporating Classic Experience), it is now available for the broader audience of Windows and Mac users. Besides an interesting “Rabbit Hole” feature enabling you to launch Windows or Mac applications on emulated Amiga desktop,…
The Commodore Plus/4 was my very first computer, many awesome games have been released for this system despite it generally being a flop for Commodore. As well as specific Plus/4 only games, this computer was also capable of playing Commodore 16 games. One of these I fondly remember was “Video Meanies” released by Mastertronic in 1986. PJG Developments are very…
One of the promises made during the ZX Spectrum Next campaign and reinforced in the Facebook group was a revamped website for the Next. The idea is to have a central hub where the backers and the public in general, can get information about the Next, not only during the development phase but also after the project is complete. We…
AmigaRemix has been updated with the following remixes of iconic soundtracks: Shadow Of The Beast II – Title (Chillout Edit) Blue Berry (Cover) Darkman007 Turrican II – The Desert Rocks (Trance/Dance Remix) SLL1 Remix v2 Lizardking’s Theme (Epic Transition) A Final Hyperbase Leander – World One Once in a life (Turrican3 End Theme) (Psyria Reconstruction Edit) You can listen or…
