Tag: Retro Gaming

Wizard of Wor Coming to the Nintendo Entertainment System

Wizard of Wor is an Arcade game released in 1980 by Midway. Up to two players fight together in a series of monster infested mazes. Clear each maze by shooting the alien creatures. The game was also ported to the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, Atari 2600, and Atari 5200. Tschak909 on NesDev forums is currently working on porting Wizard…

Ziriax 100% (Ultimate Edition) Fully Trained and Enhanced for Amiga!

Ziriax is a horizontal scroller for the Amiga that was developed by The Whiz Kidz (a group of Belgium-based coders) and released by Software Business way back in 1990. Influenced by Arcade Shoot’em ups such as Nemesis, Vulcan Venture, Sky Shark and Thundercross, Ziriax is a four stage shoot’ em up, in which you fight against waves of bullet-spewing aliens…

Retrobrite Indoors With RetroManCave!, New Techniques for Retrobriting Without Sunshine

RetroManCave recently made a video about Retrobriting in the UK. England is well known for rainy days and not much sun, except maybe in the months, June, July and August. If you’re a Retro computer collector, this can be frustrating for Retrobriting your old computers outside. Neil shows us other ways to achieve this, without using the sun, testing different…

The Retro Hour Episode #106, The UK’s Most Popular Retro Gaming Podcast! DMA Design With Steve Hammond.

The Retro Hour is a popular English Retro Gaming Podcast run by Dan Wood, Ravi Abbot, Joe Fox and Paul Kitching. The guys have interviewed various famous people in the Retro Gaming Scene, including big names such as Rob Hewson, Jonathan Cauldwell, The Oliver Twins and Jim Bagley. Episode #106 features the highs and lows of DMA Design with Steve Hammond….

WinUAE Version 3.6.1 Beta 6 Released (Small Update)

WinUAE Version 3.6.1 Beta 6 is now available to download. 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. Download: winuae_3610b6.7z Download: winuae64_3610b6.7z Changes: eab.abime.net Website: winuae.net

Toni Wilen’s WinUAE Amiga Emulator, Version 3.6.1 Beta 5 Released

Winuae 3.6.1 Beta 5 is now available to download. 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 in the image above. Download: winuae_3610b5.7z Download: winuae64_3610b5.7z Website: winuae.net

Al’s Double Bill, A New ZX Spectrum Compilation by Alessandro Grussu

Alessandro Grussu has recently released a new ZX Spectrum Compilation, which contains his first two games, Lost In My Spectrum and Apulija-13. The compilation is a disk-only release and has been devised for use with ZX Spectrum 48K/128K systems equipped with Beta Disk or similar interfaces, or MGT Plus D, or memory card based interfaces such as the DivIDE or…

Latest Amiga WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2018-02-15. 2018-02-15 improved: Oil Imperium / Black Gold (reLINE) drilling sound fixed (Info) 2018-02-15 improved: Darkseed (CyberDreams) in game quit fixed (Info) 2018-02-14 improved: Ziriax (The Whiz Kidz) ButtonWait support added (Info,Image) 2018-02-12 new: Music Selector (Deadlock) done by…

MonkeyMcGee, Where Are My Bananas? A New Work in Progress ZX Spectrum Next Platformer!

MonkeyMcGee is a new work in progress game by John McManus (Code), Simon Butler and Paul Sidman Hesso for the ZX Spectrum Next. Simon is handling the graphics and so far, it’s looking fantastic! Beautiful bright vibrant colours, clearly showing the “Next” step in ZX Spectrum gaming. Little MonkeyMcGee is pixel perfect, along with some interesting looking enemies, electricity and various other…

Tanglewood, A New Game for the Megadrive! New Updated Demo Version Available to Download!

After the sun set, a fox named Nymn was separated from his pack. Nymn must avoid the blood-thirsty creatures, use skills of evasion, special abilities, traps and trickery to defeat predators, and make it through the night until morning. Tanglewood is a platform game featuring puzzle elements, kinda like a mix between Another World and The Lion King. The game…