Tag: Retro News
Amiga Bill interviews AmiParty attendees about their DIY Amiga projects including an Amiga 500 FPGA board, a scan doubler for the Amiga 1200, a floppy drive emulator with LCD that allows you to load .adf files off a microSD card, a headphone amplifier specifically designed for the Amiga, and an Amiga 1000 motherboard replacement called a “GBA 1000”. Check out…
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…
Club Info is a German language d64 Magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and Commodore Plus/4. The following articles are included; Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, Assembloids Basic, Castle Matcher, Micromind, Craps, Computer Spass, Digitalstar, Hardware, Rug Rider, Slipstream, Deadline, Rap4 and other systems. Download: club_info_148.zip Source: plus4world.powweb.com
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 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
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of VirtualC64. (1.7.2) VirtualC64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Mac OS X. New in Version 1.7.2 and 1.7.1 Fixed some bugs regarding drag and drop, loading d64 files and key recording New in Version 1.7 VIC timing is now very close to VICE (Thanks, Fabio!) Cartridge handler has been rewritten. VirtualC64 now…
LoadError has recently released a new Vic-20 game called Pyrotech. The game was originally written in basic and then compiled to pseudo-code. In the game you command of a team of Pyrotechs on a mission to collect and defuse a batch of time bombs before they explode. LoadError’s description of the game made me smile. “It’s a gobble gobble, don’t…
A few days ago, John Blythe announced a new AGD game coming to the ZX Spectrum called Rubicon. Over on Sarah’s Speccy Group, John recently shared a wip title screen for the game. We are loving the new graphics John! Stay tuned for more News from Rucksack Games soon. Read more about Rubicon here. Source: John Blythe
Mike Dailly has put together a quick demo for the ZX Spectrum Next, showing what can be achieved using Copper. For those of you that have maybe never heard of ‘Copper’, it’s a display list processor. Most famously known and used on the Commodore Amiga, and uses very little CPU overhead. Below you will see a short video showing a…
Missing in Action game “Astor Roulette” has been recovered by Planeta Sinclair website. João Costa was kind enough to send the tape over and after demagnetizing and cleaning, the game was good enough to salvage. As the name suggests, Astor Roulette is a roulette simulation game and is thought to have been released around 1986. The author has been authenticated as…
