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Came also out for: Game description: A homebrew game based on Phoenix. In this fixed-screen shoot’em up the player has to destroy the incoming forces of space phoenixes and eventually destroy their mothership. The player can use a shield to temporarily defend themselves against attack. The shield can only … Read More From: Retro Roundup

Anton and Jarret started a Kickstarter campaign to make a games guide for the Amiga computer. The book will be filled with over 300 game reviews spanning the Amiga’s lifespan from 1985 to 1997. Each review features beautiful, crisp images of the game, its box art, and title screen. … Read More From: Retro Roundup

Timo Voutilainen has written a blog about how to connect a RTC module to the Commodore C64 computer. A RTC is a Real Time Clock and can be used by a computer to display the current time and date. Timo has also made a program to set the time and … Read More From: Retro…

Serena is an experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers, developed by Dietmar Planitzer. The kernel is object-oriented and designed to be cross-platform and future-proof. The features are: Dispatch queues, virtual processors, memory management, SerenaFS file system, ROM and RAM-disks, floppy disk driver, Zorro II & III, keyboard, mouse, joystick, … Read More From: Retro…

River Barrage is a new game for the Commodore C64 computer developed by Alf Yngve and Richard Bayliss. A terrorist group wants to destroy a dam and flood the villages in the neighbourhood. Your mission is to guide your boat through the National Park and prevent the terrorist group from … Read More From: Retro…

The Adventure Game Fan Fair is a brand new convention dedicated to classic adventures games. What make this special is they were able to invite a bunch of key figures from the Sierra On-Line days for a full blown reunion! This is the first time in several decades that all … Read More From: Retro…

Tests? Exams? Ugh, NO!! It’s always great discovering something new that people are working on and I’ve been talking with Ole who runs the Exquizitely website. This is dedicated to playing online quizzes with one area devoted to the Atari ST. There are different quiz modes, and all scores are … Read More From: Retro Roundup

This week, we welcome the awesome Kim Justice back to the podcast, as she reveals her latest passion project – Arcade Decades: 80s Edition. Known for her love of the Amiga, Kim also has a deep-rooted passion for the 80s arcade scene, which many argue was the golden age of … Read More From: Retro…

Archiving the Australian Apple ][ Software “Terminapple”  In the vast and often mysterious world of vintage computing, rare finds surface occasionally that challenge the skills and resources of even the most seasoned archivists. Recently, I had the privilege of working on one such gem: a rare piece of software called … Read More From: Retro…

Get Tyvarian: To the VIctor the Spoils (once it’s out): Digital: https://www.rustypixels.uk/shop/ Physical: https://fusionretrobooks.com When I covered the original Tyvarian back in 2020, I remarked it was truly one of the first hidden gems on the Spectrum Next. Now 4 years later, Rusty Pixels are back with its follow-up Tyvarian: … Read More From: Retro…