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• ChinnyVision – Ep 569 – An Hour Of Amstrad CPC Game Reviews
  I review Amstrad CPC for an hour without notes or preparation. There’s approximatly 40 games here, all of which make me smile in one way or another. This is not a list of the best games, an A to Z of Amstrad CPC games or even games I suggest you … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Xbox Prototype REBUILT & Castlevania Ported To Amiga CD32 – The Retro Hour Podcast EP505
  This week, someone’s rebuilt the legendary $36,000 solid aluminium Xbox prototype – and it actually works! We check out how this insane project was pulled off and why the original design became an icon of early-2000s gaming. Plus, a lost Sega Saturn prototype has surfaced after 25 years, as Destruction … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• What’s with this power supply? Aftermarket?
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• PEEK versus ARRAY in BASIC?
  Hat tip to Erico Monteiro for sending me down another quick benchmarking rabbit hole… In general, I expect PEEK to be faster than looking up a variable. PEEK only has to process whatever is in the parentheses: V=PEEK(1024) Parsing the decimal 1024 can be slow. Using hex is faster (&H400). … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Fast & Furious Arcade Edition REVIEW
  My review of Fast & Furious Arcade Edition (PS5, Xbox, Switch) — It’s loud, kinda janky, and over before you can even say ‘family.’ There is fun to be found here, but also lots of caveats and a few disappointments. BUY IT HERE (Amazon) : https://amzn.to/4oYc8Az (As an Amazon Associate … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Astromania (Moonbeam Software) for the TI-99/4A
  Came also out for: Game description: Astromania is an action game that consists of three different sections that have to be played in order. On the first stage the player will find his space ship stationed in the middle of the screen surrounded by four cannons that launch asteroids … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• An 8 bit game on a 16 bit machine? Jumpman Junior | Amigos: Everything Amiga 528
  What happens when an 8-bit classic lands on a 16-bit powerhouse? This week on Amigos, we take on Jumpman Junior, a game that looks straight out of the Commodore 64 — but it’s running on the Amiga! 🏆 Support our wacky, weekly Amiga podcast! https://www.patreon.com/amigospodcast Subscribe to the podcast version … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• MMD-1 Mini Micro Designer Part 6: Breadboarding a homebrew serial port
  In our quest to run Microsoft BASIC on the MMD-1, we add an Altair-compatible serial port using a vintage MC6850 chip. MMD-1 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb5_ITRdT7BjqpjQfCqc58O-g Stuff that supports the channel: – Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/curiousmarc – Amazon links for the tools I use in the lab: https://www.curiousmarc.com/amazon-links – Channel merch … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Wanted: Sub-Etha Software’s InfoPatch for Infocom
  Sub-Etha Software sold a product called InfoPatch. It would take a stock TRS-80 Color Computer Infocom text adventure game and patch it to work on the CoCo 3 using the 80 column screen. As a bonus, it would speed up disk access by setting it to 6ms step rate. I … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Generally, is it still okay to use an older version of an iOS app if Apple allows downloading from the App Store?
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• Retro Re-release Roundup, week of November 6, 2025
  Namco arcade multiplayer mayhem comes home for the first time. Read More From: Retronauts
• Astroblitz for the TI-99/4A
  Came also out for: Game description: Astroblitz is a side-scrolling shoot’em up very similar to Defender. However, unlike Defender here are no people to rescue. Instead the only goal is to destroy every enemy (alien spaceships, turrets on the grounds and mines in the air). … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• It’s JUMPMAN JUNIOR …on the Amiga?!? YES! It exists! This week the Amigos are FEELIN’ JUMPY!
  Man, I loved playing Jumpman back in the day…waaaay back. And yet, here it is…a GRAY AREA copy of Jumpman Junior for the AMIGA of all things! Can JJ bring those warm and fuzzies back, or is this thing DATED AND WRONG! Find out this week on the Amigos Everything … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• ProDOS 2.4.3 – the latest release from 30-DEC-23
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• Apple2Rescue – TWGS Liquidation
  We recently rescued an Apple II collection (apple2rescue.com) from a long time RM supporter, customer, and collector. There was several IIgs and II Plus systems which have since found new loving homes as is the mission of apple2rescue.com. To assist in covering the costs of the rescue RM was graciously … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• More Sub-Etha Software MM/1 source code on GitHub
  I have located source code to some of the MM/1 programs I wrote. It is now uploaded to my GitHub page: https://github.com/allenhuffman/SubEthaSoftware This includes… MiniBanners – ported from CoCo BASIC09 to the MM/1 BASIC by Joel Hegberg (he had an MM/1 and I didn’t) MegaBanners – the updated banner … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Astro Fighter for the TI-99/4A
  Came also out for: Arcade Game description: Astro Fighter is a solo, fixed-screen space shooter where waves of enemy ships appear at the top of the screen and move downward in patterns unique to each type. The player must navigate their ship to destroy these enemies before they reach the … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Alien Busters 4
  What happened to the first three?Back in 1996, Daniel Fielding released Alien Busters 4, a multiplayer shooter with one simple rule: kill your mates before they kill you. The action takes place in an arena where up to five players can jump in and shoot the living daylights out of … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• 437 – The CoCo Nation Show – Boysenberries
  This week we roll our own multipak, plus news with El Curtis Boyle. —-more—- The CoCo Nation Show (TCN) – a weekly live and interactive discussion about the Color Computers, Dragons, MC-10, clones, and cousins! Website: https://thecoconation.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@The_CoCo_Nation Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thecoconationshow FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theco… Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCoCoNation Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecoconati… PodBean: https://thecoconation.podbean.com/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast… iHeart Radio: https://iheart.com/podcast/105011302/ MeWe: https://mewe.com/join/thecoconation Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qx9Nx7… TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_coco_nation Email: mailto:show@TheCoCoNation.com … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Spooks is one of the BEST platformers on Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer! Get SPOOKED on CoCo Show!
  Happy VERY LATE Halloween everyone! Ok..it’s over, but don’t let the holiday spoil this AWESOME game for you! It’s SPOOKS, and it’s SCAREY GOOD! Join THE BRENT and Amigo Aaron for a RARE occurrence…we TOTALLY AGREE on something THIS WEEK ON THE COCO SHOW! Email: theretrorotation@gmail Facebook: Amigos Retro Gaming … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Asteroids (J. Peter Hoddie) for the TI-99/4A
  Came also out for: Game description: A shooter based on the popular arcade hit Asteroids. Shoot the asteroids and the smaller things that come out of them. You can also use a teleport but it teleports you to a random location. … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Hacking the Color BASIC PRINT command – part 7
  See Also: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 and part 7 (and maybe more to come…) Source code for this series: https://github.com/allenhuffman/CoCo_BASIC/tree/main/basic_assembly/consmove After the last post in this series, I took a detour and learned more about how the DEF USR function works in … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• How can I get a copy of Merlin on disk?
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• “I’d Never Even Seen a Computer Until I Worked at Sierra!” – Mark Crowe on Space Quest
  This week we’re joined by Sierra legend Mark Crowe, co-creator of the Space Quest series and one half of the iconic Two Guys from Andromeda. Mark reveals how he went from never touching a computer to helping define the golden age of adventure gaming, working alongside Roberta Williams, Disney, and … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Kickstarter Ending TODAY
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• Asteroid Belt for the TI-99/4A
  Came also out for: Game description: In Asteroid Belt the player has to avoid or shoot asteroids while collecting fuel canisters for points. … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Dissecting my MiniBanners program – part 1
  See Also: part 1 (with more parts to come). This series of blog posts will discuss my CoCo program, MiniBanners. It will discuss the things that changed between versions, and dissect the code to explore how it worked. The code referenced in this blog post can be found in my … Read More From: Retro Roundup
• Applesoft BASIC sounds
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• Kickstarter Kompilation: November 2025 edition
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• Retronauts Episode 726: Final Fantasy Tactics Revisited
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