Another great featured article discussing the Cart Wars has been published by Retro Collect. The cartridge was a medium capable of feats that pushed the consoles of the 8-64 bit era well beyond their limits. Packed with graphics chips, battery backups and even camera lenses, the evolution of the cartridge is a truly formidable tale and one that is often…
Retro Collect website has published a short review of the book “Push Start – The Art of Video Games”. “The team have obviously paid close attention to which games to include (and the titles they’ve chosen are presented so well that even the simplest art looks stunning) and the comprehension of the modern titles present is pleasantly surprising. The Last…
[youtube Y-CV41sEGQk nolink] Amstrad Action Issue 60 – The GX4000 is Unleashed… “Novabug” is releasing the first episode in a series of videos highlighting an issue of Amstrad Action magazine from the late 80’s and early 90’s. He discusses and passes comment on the headlining articles of the time of publish, predictions and general progress of gaming on the Amstrad…
Sunrise Foundation, known to supply the best hardware peripherals for the MSX will close its doors after more than 20 years of operation. According to the Nowind announcement, deliverability issues were caused by unexpected lack of time for managing the activities of the Sunrise foundation. This is not likely to change soon, which made Sunrise conclude that the time has…
Yes, here we are back with news about Apple 1 auctions and astronomic prices! Today, the Apple 1 up for auction that we posted about few weeks ago, was sold at Christie’s. The surprise is that it was sold for a price below of what was expected – “only” $365,000. Considering that on a previous auction back in October, an…
RetroGamer Collector website has published an extensive and detailed How To teaching how to allow you to connect your beloved ZX Spectrum to your LCD screen using the composite video input. As the Spectrum already has a perfectly good composite signal and there is no need to use the RF circuitry anymore, the process is simple: bypass the RF modulator…
[youtube IpNhWTVQeGU nolink] It is now open the Demo of the Year 2014 Competition, and only demos never released before are allowed to participate, and they have to run on stock C64 without expansions. The deadline is end of February, 2015, and after that, the voting period will happen during the month of March. The video above is the invitation…







