Retro Gaming News and Reviews

Neo6502 Review

Review of the Neo6502 single board computer that features a real 6502 microprocessor.

Apple II Blueprint Signed by Woz Explains NFTs

A friend was asking about NFTs and I used a metaphor of this signed Apple II blueprint from Steve Wozniak to help him understand them better.

Agon Light: First Impressions

Agon Light is a single-board computer based around a Z80 CPU, along with an ESP32 for audio, video, and IO.

What Next for the RetroPie? (My RetroPie is rapidly becoming Retro)

Like most people who are into retro gaming, I have long been a fan of the RetroPie. I would say there are a few categories of retro gamer and I am in multiple: Desktop computer emulation Raspberry Pi/Android-based emulation “Mini” and recreation (eg. TheC64) MiSTer FPGA “Premium” retro consoles (eg. Arcade 1UP) One of the …

XC-BASIC v3 First Impressions

XC-BASIC v3, the Commodore BASIC cross-compiler is now available.

Let's take a look to see what was new and if it is worth looking at over, say, TRSE.

Redemption of the Sinden Lightgun

As is often the case, as soon as I publicly articulate a problem, a solution starts to bubble up. Yesterday I wrote on social media about my initial impressions of the Sinden Lightgun and how I felt deflated. Well, it turns out what I thought was a software problem was, in fact, a pretty weird …

Commodore 64 Emulator in Your Web Browser – Now with drag-and-drop BASIC Tokenizer

New release of my browser based emulator that allows you to drag and drop your Commodore 64 BASIC program

Frogger – Browser-based retro game fun

As part of my development of my own Frogger-clone for the Commodore Pet (PETFrog), I wanted to refresh my memory of how Frogger originally worked. Fortunately you can play the real Frogger, online, and for free thanks to the Internet Archive! Play frogger online Even better it works right in your browser – doesn’t require …