hdmyboy: full hd for your 1989 game boy.

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Cart Wars – Episode 1: The Evolution of the Cartridge

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…

Book Review: Push Start – The Art of Video Games

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…

Video – Amstrad Action Focus #1 [Issue 60]

[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…

The Secret of Monkey Island in development for MSX2

Kai Magazine has published in its Facebook page the first screenshots of the “until now” rumoured port of “The Secret of Monkey Island” for the MSX2. According to MSXBlog, the game will use the Screen 5 mode with 16 colours, which can be seen on the screenshots. Source: MSX Blog

MSX – Sunrise Foundation to halt its activities – the end of an era

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…

Scene World Podcast #3 – The Peruvian Scene

Scene World Podcast #3 – The Peruvian SceneDid you know that Peru had a C64 scene? No? Well, the guys over at Scene World speak to Mr Byte who played a key role in building up this scene! Website: http://sceneworld.org

Apple 1 computer sold for "only" $365,000 at Christie's Auction

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…

DYI Guide: Simple ZX Spectrum video composite mod

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…

DOTY 2014 – Demo of the Year 2014 Competition

[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…