This is not really a retro computing news by itself, but Radio Shack is so attached to the beginning of personal computing, mainly with it TRS-80, and all the others model that followed it, that we have to report the what looked like inevitable. According to the WSJ, “RadioShack Corp. filed for bankruptcy this Thursday after reaching a deal to…
Power Pack 64 is out bringing five great games in full: PHASE OUT NOT EVEN HUMAN TUTTI FRUTTI 64 ASSEMBLOIDS SCRAMBLE V1.12 This is going to be the last Power Pack and it brings an amazing content to celebrate the historic milestone. Commodore Format Archive said – “for this last Power Pack tape – which is appropriately enough number 64!…
In mid-November, John Romero shared with the Apple II community some sad news: Bob Bishop, co-founder of Apple’s R&D department and KansasFest 2011 keynote speaker, had passed away. According to A2Central and Apple II Bits, the word went out on Facebook via Gary Koffler that the late Bob Bishop’s Apple II collection might be heading for the dumpster. John and…
[youtube nJGshW0DdGk nolink] With 70% of the votes, Pointless Fighting by Baka-Yo! Softcorp wins the #msxdev competition and takes home 100 euros! The very impressive fighting game can be download for free, or you can watch a preview video on YouTube. Download: #msxdev Source: MSX Resource Centre
I got rudely awakened by the postman this morning at stupid o’clock, but once I eventually prise open my eyes, I realised it was worth waking up early :) I bought these on evilbay purely for the Commodore is Awesome scanning project. What we do over at Commodore is Awesome is we gather as many scans as possible for all…
Wednesday 4th February 2015, 19:00 USRT: Boz – BBB – It’s the Taint of the Week™ again, so it’s time for Boz to utter complete bollocks in between your requests. Let’s hope his monitor doesn’t unnecessarily shut down due to “overheating” this time! All aboard the Train-Wreck, WOO WOOH! Listen: SLAYRadioWebsite: BozRetro.com
[youtube cdeGdCq-mFg nolink] List of changes to the original: No ‘Made in Amos’ screen, instead it’s ‘Pickups explained’ New title screen artwork New titlescreen music by Marcus Becker New character selection screen New character selection graphics Slightly tweaked character stats New in-game screen New tileset New maps Jammed doors Fake walls Random pickups that vary each time you play the…
Two decades ago, Javier Lavandeira created a game called ‘Matrix – Quest for deliverance’, complete with some nice Moonblaster 1.4 stereo music and released it to close friends only. The game is a Breakout/Arkanoid clone. It has great FM-PAC / Music Module music composed by Carlos García. Coding and graphics are all by Javier Lavandeira. It runs fine on the…
Found an interesting website this morning which is located over at http://www.romhacking.net We all know what game roms are, but did you know that they can be patched to change or modify the game in small ways or even to a completely new game? Armed with an original clean game rom, .ips patch and a patcher program, you too can…
GameBase64 Collection v13 is here and this time only half a year has passed since the last release. Release #13 doesn’t bring any bad luck but instead it is raising the bar to a new level of 24800 database entries. All in all nearly 500 titles have been added or updated and support for the latest HVSC #62 is provided!…
