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  1. TFW8B launch range of Carts and provide service to sell Amateur programmer’s 8-bit games

    TFW8B launch range of Carts and provide service to sell Amateur programmer’s 8-bit games

    The Future Was 8-Bit have launched a range of cartridges for the Commodore VIC-20 and C64. The company are also providing a new service to amateur programmers where they will publish their games in cartridge form. Commodore 64 games Ms Rodmän Ms Rodmän is the follow up to last year’s Rodmän –...
  2. Retro Computer Festival this weekend at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History

    Retro Computer Festival this weekend at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History

    The Centre for Computing History are holding their 2025 Retro Computer Festival this weekend (15th and 16th November 2025) - and this time it's the "Gaming Edition" You'll be able to see micros and consoles from the 70s, 80s and 90s running the very best of vintage and modern games, as well as...
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  3. Our first look at Game Streaming Service: Antstream

    Our first look at Game Streaming Service: Antstream

    We first heard about Antstream last year, and it sounded right up our street! Anstream is pretty much “Netflix for retro games”, and offers you the chance to stream and play a whole bunch of retro-games on Windows, Mac, Linux and consoles for a monthly subscription (£9.99 per month, or you can...
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  4. Burger Time gets excellent C64 port by Arlasoft

    Burger Time gets excellent C64 port by Arlasoft

    Arlasoft has released a wonderful conversion of the classic arcade game, Burger Time. The port was developed especially for and released during the Mamemeister Charity Stream on 5th November 2023. Burger Time was originally launched in 1982 by Data East and is a platform game where you must...
  5. Video: Retro Indie Games Round-Up May 2023

    Video: Retro Indie Games Round-Up May 2023

    Games Featured: 81-Tris (ZX81) Zero Wing II (C64) Yars' Revenge (INTV) Ringo (ZX Spectrum) Where is it? (Master System) Hitbox (Pico-8) Speccy Soccer (ZX Spectrum) Mega Slow Mole (Mega Drive) The Pact (GBC) Cursed Tomb (C64) Cyberpunks 2 (Amiga) Monaco Master (Master System) Shera's Dance...
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  6. Memotech MTX, Microbee and Sord M5 get some homebrew-love with puzzle game Vexed

    Memotech MTX, Microbee and Sord M5 get some homebrew-love with puzzle game Vexed

    It's not often you get homebrew for the Memotech MTX or the Microbee. Nor the Sord M5 or SpectraVision SV 318. Well now a new puzzle game reaches some normally un-loved platforms, as well as some more common ones too. Vexed is a puzzle game where you must match the blocks to remove them from...
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  7. Interview with Icicle Works programmer Doug Turner, plus new Plus/4 game!

    Interview Interview with Icicle Works programmer Doug Turner, plus new Plus/4 game!

    If you had a Commodore Plus/4 then you probably played Icicle Works at some point. It was created by young programmer, Doug Turner, who also went on to make a handful of other games (Fingers Malone, Prospector Pete). Turner is about to launch his first Plus/4 game in nearly 35 years: A sequel to...
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  8. Ashtrays, Bread bins and Toastracks: A guide to retro computing slang

    Feature Ashtrays, Bread bins and Toastracks: A guide to retro computing slang

    Like most hobbies, Retro Computing comes with its own set of slang, and fan-created nicknames for products. Sometimes they are affectionate, sometimes derogatory – but one things for sure, if you’re new to the hobby you will have no idea what people are talking about! This document is a...
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  9. Mastertronic Cassette Colour Codes

    Mastertronic Cassette Colour Codes

    As you might guess from the spelling of colour in the title, I’m from the UK. And in the UK in the eighties only the rich kids had microcomputers with disk drives. The rest of us made-do with cassette tapes. And if you collected computer cassette tapes then there is no way you wouldn’t have had...
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