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…

Vitno Updates

New Megadrive games added; Aladdin, Altered Beast, Boogerman, Castle of Illusion, Decap Attack, Doki Doki Penguin Land, Ghostbusters, Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, Golden Axe, New Zealand Story, Quackshot, Revenge of Shinobi, Shadow of the Beast 1 and 2, Splatter House 1 and 2 and Super Fantasy Zone. New Video added to the Vitno YouTube account. Two new reviews will be added…

Retro Super Robot Rampage / Vortex

[youtube cictUOfIJwA nolink] Retro Super Robot Rampage is a game that combines elements of two genres: arcade and action. The mode is single player and the goal is to move onto as many possible levels and get the highest score by killing the enemy. The story is about a little robot who is trapped in a dungeon and drawing attention…

CSDb Latest Releases

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Shitmen Intro #32, Ralph Baer Commemoration 2, Ralph Baer Commemoration 1, Attack of the Mutant Aliens +, Round 3×3 V2, Penultimate Fantasy 100% +3DF [pal/ntsc], Graveyard Opus, Fickle [16kb cartridge], Pseudo Techno, Lotek64 #50, Tutti Frutti 64 Preview +2, Brilliant Maze Music Demo, Fickle +5D, Brilliant Maze +2D, Frodigi 5, Mini-Arcade: Climax…

World of Commodore 2014 – Altair 8800 loads 4K BASIC from paper tape

[youtube 5zbtNImG2NE nolink] World of Commodore 2014 happened this last weekend in Toronto. Although it is mostly a Commodore party, there is always space to show off others cool retro computers. On this video, it is shown how back in the day one should load a 4K BASIC into an Altair 8800. After all those steps, the computer will be…