This week's retro news, hand curated down to the stories worth your time
In this issueAmigaZX SpectrumArcadeMiSTerAtari STC64Spectrum NextAmstrad CPCAmstrad GX4000Apple II
Biggest story of the week
This week's big one
RetroArch coming to MiSTer
RetroArch is running emulation on MiSTer's ARM side, for systems with no FPGA core, and a release is coming soon.
26:29 Pixel Cherry NinjaNew games
New games for old machines
Dracula Illustrated Edition for ZX Spectrum Next
Dracula Illustrated Edition for ZX Spectrum Next. A text adventure inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula , with illustrations throughout the adventure. It runs on a standard 1 MB Next and loads the picture data from the SD card through NextZXOS as you move from room to room.
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VOID LANCER C64 Shoot 'em up
VOID LANCER – A Shoot 'em up for the Commodore 64 by Snow-G
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Neon Revenant pseudo-3D rail shooter for the MSX
Neon Revenant for the MSX. A pseudo-3D rail shooter under development
read Indie Retro News 13:03 also: Pixel Cherry Ninja
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Old machines get a new life
Super ZSNES now with Apple / Android TV Support
Developer zsKnight has just released v0.310 of the newly re-launched Super Nintendo / Super Famicom emulator Super ZSNES. This version includes HD enhancements for Star Fox, as well as support for Apple TV and Android TV streaming boxes. There’s also bugfixes and optimizations.
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Sega Model 2 MiSTer core shows Daytona
Alphanu1 moves on from Model 1 (Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter, Star Wars Arcade) to show Daytona USA progress on Model 2.
16:32 Pixel Cherry NinjaLost and found
Unearthed treasures and new homes for old games
Command & Conquer on the Atari ST nears release
The ST conversion of Command & Conquer is now faster and includes the FMV intros, working within the ST's 16 colour limitations!
21:50 The Laird's Lair
Modern Vintage Gamer is porting Gun.Smoke to AGA Amigas
MVG, who ported Zippy Race, is converting Capcom's Gun.Smoke by transcoding the arcade ROM into C, JOTD style. Early builds target 50-60 fps on a stock A1200, though chip RAM is tight and fast RAM may end up needed. Source: Indie Retro News.
13:15 Amiga Bill 17:15 also: The Laird's Lair
Flashback finally arrives on the Atari ST
Neil Rackett's port of Flashback, advertised for the ST but never released, targets a steady 25 fps on a plain ST, up to 30 fps on Mega STE and Falcon, and adds extra frames on the STE. Source: Indie Retro News.
23:10 The Laird's Lair
Super Mario 64 SNES Port
Super Mario 64 on the Super NES thanks to the Super FX Chip
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Ghosts'n Goblins for Commodore Amiga AGA
Ghosts'n Goblins has arrived as a Commodore Amiga AGA edition via JOTD
read Indie Retro News 5:50 also: Pixel Cherry NinjaNew hardware
Boards, carts and kit you can build or buy
Blaze's C64 And ZX Spectrum Handhelds Have Been Delayed
Evercade maker Blaze confirmed that it is teaming up with Retro Games Ltd to produce two new clamshell handhelds based on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 now set to arrive April 2027.
read Time Extension 6:30 also: Mr. Sujano 7:54 also: Pixel Cherry Ninja
ZX Spectrum accelerator cartridge
An accelerator cartridge that plugs into interface 2 connector on the 16K+48K spectrum
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Cardputer 8-Bit Tape Loader
Tape loader for 8-bit computers useing a cardputer to load tape files from an SD card. It supports Commodore, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Acorn, BBC Micro, Dragon, Tandy CoCo, Oric, and Amstrad.
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Things that help you make things
Turtle64: N64 ROM toolkit preview
A Rust/egui desktop app for N64 ROM format conversion, header inspection, checksums and No-Intro DAT verification, inspired by ROM64 and RomJudge
7:02 Mr. SujanoChums of the Channel
Send some love to nice people
Malone's Fortune: a 1984 Spectrum type-in, snorkerfied
The Popular Computing Weekly type-in by Steve Lathrope (Gang Wars / Malone's Fortune) is typed in and played as published, then rebuilt.
0:49 WhatHoSnorkers
Animating a TRON light cycle scene in Amiga LightWave RTG
Hold and Modify builds a TRON light cycle grid from his own 30-year-old models in LightWave on Amiberry
0:28 Hold and Modify
Interview: Brian Silverman on LOGO, Scratch and Visual 6502
Ron talks to Brian Silverman about the MIT LOGO lab, porting LOGO to 8-bit micros, the programmable bricks behind LEGO Mindstorms and his preservation work: emulating Spacewar! on the PDP-1, reviving PDP-11, Smalltalk and APL\360, and the transistor-level simulations of the 4004, 6502 (Visual 6502) and ARM1.
1:24 Ron's Computer Videos