CPCGamesCD is a package containing all components necessary to play AmstradCPC games on your modern computer. With different CPC emulators and several games, the CPCGamesCD makes your life easy with a nice front end that gives access to all functionality. With this new update, the following changes were made: Includes frontend, new CPC Loader 3 by Troels K Includes NVG games…
We have been receiving this question lately, and we thought it would be a good idea to clarify it in a post. As you probably know, the same people manages Commodore is Awesome and Vintage is the New Old, and for a long time we kept both sites separated – CiA for Commodore news and content and Vintage is The New Old…
MSXDev’17 is a go, and the organizers are back preparing the iconic MSX development contest. This year, the MSXDev team is asking your input about the contest, rules, prizes, or whatever you think would make it a great contest. MSXDev’15 edition had a lot of road bumps, mainly for the lack of interest, even from the judges (you can read…
With the Christmas season quickly approaching I thought I would use the deals on hardware components to try to upgrade my current desktop. Upon shifting through the various hardware websites advertising dozens of various CPU’s, GPU’s, and enough cases to make my head spin, I soon began to miss the days before 6700Ks and 1070 SLI, and reminisce about a…
The retro games development team “Underground Arcade” has announced the AmiGameJam, a game development competition for the Amiga. This year theme is “TV Shows and Movies”, so the competitors will have to take inspiration from any TV show or movie to create their games. Although not mandatory, the organizers suggest that the developers pick something that was never used to…
Seth Bling is already known to build crazy things that run inside Minecraft. This week he surprised everybody once again when he presented a fully working Atari 2600 emulator running inside Minecraft. The emulator is capable of reading and running Atari cartridges, which were also built using Minecraft binary blocks structure (dirt or stones). There are no controllers, and the emulator…
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga chiptunes music disk. All tracks were created by Aaron White, Graphics are by Paul Kitching (CMAP), CiA Ocean logo is by Retrograde of CiA Group. (with a few edits by Kitty for this Release) Happy Chipmas 2016 contains ten awesome classic remixes, check out the playlist below. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer…
Atari Crypt is a website dedicated to the Atari ST computers, and today Steve Gregory has announced the availability of the first issue of the AtariCrypt magazine. “Today, I am extremely proud to announce the availability of AtariCrypt Magazine. That’s right folks, a brand new magazine STuffed to the brim full of 16-bit gaming goodness. It has been designed by none…
The Facebook group Ottawa Vintage Computer Enthusiasts held on Nov 5th the first “real life” meetup. The meeting was held at the Makerspace North, which kindly let us use their excellent installations. Makerspace North was the best possible place to have the meeting as retro computing and the maker scene have so much in common as well as a very convenient location….
Now we are finally up and running with the new look website, our next plan is migrating some pages from CiA. Fred Fish disks, 17Bit Software Public Domain, Box Art, Articles and Reviews. Currently the games pages are up on the site but they still need some work, mostly screenshots and adding new games. Keep an eye on the site…
