Retrochallenge.org has announced the latest edition of their month-long excuse to drag out that Atari! Retrochallenge is a self-defined challenge where participants set their own goals for a project involving vintage computers or software. Contestants track their progress on their individual blogs and tweet about their challenge with the #retrochallenge tag. The Retrochallenge 2016/10 competition will run from October 1st to…
Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 4. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes link, have fun!…
Just your run of the mill mario-explores-the-universe game. Made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 36. Featuring 10s of Goombas, An Infinite Universe, Muscle Toad, “Original” Music, “Faithful” Physics, Social Commentary about Interplanetary Colonialism, and a Radical Space Ship; No Mario’s Sky is the hackneyed remake-gone-mashup you’ve been craving. For Windows, OSX and Linux. [youtube Bx1B4Y95RHE nolink] Download: https://asmb.itch.io/no-marios-sky
New c64-Cases for Christmas 2016 After a pause of several years, fans of classic computers worldwide can look forward to a series of Commodore PCs. The company “individual Computers GmbH”, based in Germany and well-known in the Retro-Computing community, has licensed the rights of the Commodore trademarks from Polabe Holding N.V. New For Old: c64c-Cases Planned For Autumn 2016 The…
Released by: Protovision [web] Release Date: 31 August 2016 Type: C64 Graphics Over at CSDb, a lovely graphics advert for Sam’s Journey has been released today (nice little teaser). This ‘hopefully’ means the highly anticipated C64 platformer may be near to completion! The release date is still unknown but fingers crossed guys, we could be holding Sam’s Journey in our hands before Christmas? We’ll keep you posted! Download: Sam Advert.d64 Website: protovision-online.com, knights-of-bytes.com…
Released by: Genesis Project [web], Triad [web] Release Date: 31 August 2016 Type: C64 Crack Download: HitAndRunBaseball+D-TRIAD&GP.zip Source: Hedning GP, CSDb, c64.com
DUBCRT is a music album, interactive light synthesizer and remix-gadget released as a Commodore 64 cartridge. With music and visuals from some of the most prolific experimentalists of the 8-bit scenes, DUBCRT taps into 1960s modernist forms, 1970s dub, 2000s glitch aesthetics, and 2020s sustainable computing. DUBCRT features: Eight songs ranging from ambient to IDM and drum n’ bass Visualisers…
Pyrofer is working on a converter to transform a 80 column CGA video signal to RGB. With this system you can connect your Commodore 128 to a RGB monitor. At the moment the refresh rate is 15 kHz (no scan doubler). Website: http://c-128.freeforums.net
Epsilon has written a post about upgrading his Amiga 500. He shows how to install the Individual Computers ACA1233n 030 accelerator with optional RTC battery expansion, a 512k memory expansion and a new Amiga floppy drive, complete with a 3D printed drive eject button designed to fit the Amiga 500. Click the link below to read more about it. Website: http://amigax1000.blogspot.co.uk
You can now revive the Roger Wilco adventures and many other created by Sierra Online for cheap! The new Humble “Sierra” Bundle brings Space Quest, Police Quest and many other amazing games for the price you want. For $15 or more you can also get the King’s Quest collection! As usual, the Humble Bundle gives you Steam keys that you can…
