Tag: Retrogaming
Over at Forum64 there is a thread on whitening the housing of retro computers. They are experimenting with a replacement for hydrogen peroxide and Oxi. In this method the housing is placed in a plastic container with Domol (cleaning solution), the container is placed in the sun for a day or two. Forum64 Thread: http://www.forum64.de EAB Retr0bright Thread: http://eab.abime.net Website:…
FPGA Arcade is a retro computer system developed by MikeJ and can be used to emulate (in hardware) many retro computers such as: Amiga, Apple II+, AtariST, Atari 800XL, BBC B, Commodore VIC-20 / C64, MSX and the Spectrum. Mfilos has received his FPGA Arcade and has built the system inside a mini-itx case. You can follow his progress on…
John Selck (Graham/Arsenic/Oxyron) released an update of his GFX conversion program. GFX Transformer is a small graphics converter tool which is able to convert between charset, bitmap, color bitmap, FLI modes. It also features a simple sprite grid grabber and also supports hires modes. It’s also possible to swap colours. When loading, the tool automatically detects the file format. Download:…
GadgetUK164 has made a number of repair videos for the Commodore 64. The most recent videos are about CIA problems, looking at faulty chips, PLA repair, SID repair and repairing a missing pin on a SID chip. [youtube tF1R4X037yg nolink]YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/GadgetUK164/videos
Radical Brad is working on a 6502 project. He is building a 1980’s retro game system with the following rules: CPU: 6502, 74xx logic gates, breadboard, Video: VGA, 256 colours and 400×300 pixels, GPU system with Blitter and a sound system with 4 channels. [youtube M9kUlFZM0gM nolink][youtube chACO3WNtg0 nolink]Forum Thread: http://forum.6502.org
Glow Path Basic is a new Commodore 64 game by Steveboy, coded in Basic. In the game you must connect the power source to the endpoint in a limited amount of moves. The game also has a cheat modes. Cheat Mode On/Off: Options menu – Up+Right Cheat in game: – Up+Right: level complete – Down+left: help view Download: Glow Path…
Latest updates from Vinny over at c64endings.co.uk are as follows: BMX Trials by Mastertronic Battle Command by Ocean Software After The War by Dinamic Zaga by Kingsoft Xain’D Shleena by Sputnik World X-Terminator by Novagen Wing Commander by Mastertronic/Thorn EMI Website: http://www.c64endings.co.uk
Released by: Endurion, Spider Jerusalem, The USER Release Date: 31 August 2015 Download: Awakening.prg Website: CSDb
Released by: Bamse Release Date: 31 August 2015 Download: kitw_beta.prg Website: CSDb
Chocolate-doom is a project that makes it possible to play the original MS-DOS game Doom on modern computers. The aims of this project are: To be as accurate as possible to the original game. 100% free and open-source. And make versions for as many different operating systems as possible. Version 2.2.0 of the AmigaOS 4 version is now available. Website:…
