Saturday, June 30, 2001

DreamSpec V0.0005 is now out!

(posted by Lando - 12:29) Dreamcast rulez when it comes to hardcore retro gamin on a real TV screen and DreamSpec (Speccy emu) is just the thing for all you 80`s fans! VMU save and load game data is now in so you can burn the midnight oil and resume just after breakfast :-) RGB and VGA problems have also been fixed so this update is a must have. Enjoy this latest offering from the official homepage below.  Link: DreamSpec

	Atari on your phone
	(posted by Lee - 09:15) CNN asia post these intresting titbits on the new wave of putting classic games on your Mobilephone. Namco and Infogrames (who hold the rights to such fantastic games as the Atari range) are doing just that with games such as PAC-MAN and ASTEROIDS. Atari COMBAT would be cool, if you will :)  Link: CNN report

	Genital68K new release and Namechange
	(posted by Lee - 09:06) Genital68K has now become Turbo68K (better name:) , and Version 0.5 has been released today. Get the all new spanking release at its new homepage  Link: Turbo48k

Thursday, June 28, 2001

Spectrum emulator PSX updated

(posted by Lee - 11:31) That new Speccy emulator for PSX, by Double Dutch has been updated... 0 Version 1.05 has Jet Set Willy for test purposes!!! 0 You can now type your own programs in using the PC keyboard to PSX interface described on the site! The lads also ask if someone could test the emu sound feature on a PS2 or PC Playstation Also on the site is are details on howe to build your own pc keyboard to PSX interface. WoW! Spectrum games on the Playstation..get it  Link: DoubleDutch

	ADVANCE MAME
	(posted by Lee - 02:48) AdvanceMENU now reaches v1.11 release AdvanceMENU is a DOS front-end for the MAME and the MESS emulators.  Link: Advance

CPC Zone site released

(posted by Lee - 02:46) Malc Jennings, The Webmaster of ALE has released his brand new site, CPC Zone The site includes.. o Review classic Amstrad CPC titles o Provide cheats and codes for many Amstrad CPC games o List and review the many CPC emulators available o Bring your desktop to life with retro-wallpapers o Answer many common questions via our FAQ o Supply you with loads of Amstrad CPC cover art o Give FULL system specs of each Amstrad CPC o Provide a user friendly message board o Give links to many other great Amstrad CPC resources go there, today  Link: CPC Zone

Sunday, June 24, 2001

	New Email
	(posted by Lee - 16:26) Ive got a new email address, Please use this new one as from now for news reports that you require posting. Thanks:)  Link: LeeEmail

	BackInTime London
	(posted by Lee - 16:23) Although this time I didnt go (Mumble..no money..Mumble) The BackInTime event held this month in London for all C64 SID music fans was again a success. Visits from the stars of the Computer world included Jeff Minter (Again) and Jon Hare of Sencible Software. Keep your eye on the site for the upcoming pics and stories  Link: BackInTime

	Sprite Ripper for C64 emulators
	(posted by Lee - 16:09) Paul Kubiszyn of Studio64 has released a great new utility to rip sprites from CCS64 emulator save games. It was written especially for those people who are working on C64 to PC converted games, as a quick and easy way to port the graphics. To Obtain it, go to Studio64 and follow the links Thanks Paul  Link: Studio64

	New Vic site
	(posted by Lee - 16:03) Tim has released a new site which contains 175 Vic20 tape inlay cover scans and 162 .tap files for the Vic 20 for use in Vice. Always nice to see a new fan-site Wayhey! Jelly monsters anyone? Thanks Tim!!  Link: Arma's Vic20

Video Game Festival, Classic Twin Galaxies style!

(posted by Lee - 15:58) Twin Galaxies will be hosting its first-ever Twin Galaxies' Video Game Festival in the Sam Goody Center at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, July 20-22, 2001...Writes Walter Day... One of the features of the event is a "Classic Video Game Arcade." Classic game collectors are welcome to bring games that they wish to sell and set them up for the public to play during the weekend. There is no charge for this privilege. The only requirement is that the games on display must be manufactured in 1986 or earlier and that they must be set on free play for public enjoyment. For more information visit...  Link: TwinGalaxies

Saturday, June 23, 2001

	Atari 7800
	(posted by Chris - 16:58) RetroBase.com has added a games section dedicated to the Atari 7800 system to their site. Atari fans may check it out at the link below, as it's a complete list of all (dumped) games for this system.  Link: RetroBase

Wednesday, June 20, 2001

	New CPS2Shock and Kawaks Release
	(posted by Roni - 19:01) Hey all, today Razoola released xor number 40 Armored Warriors (US 941024). Go get it and after that why don't you show your support and donate? Also, Kawaks was updated to v1.05 today supporting many new changes since the last time and the new CPS2Shock release. Kawaks is a CPS1&2 emulator for Win9x using Direct-X 8.  Links: CPS2Shock - Kawaks

Sunday, June 17, 2001

	New unofficial nester released!
	(posted by Roni - 14:38) TAKEDA, toshiya updated his version of nester today to include a few small fixes including: fast disk access (skip frames while disk is accessed) add palette for VS Freedom Force (thanx Screw) support 'Famicom Top Management'(#1) unofficial nester is a Nintendo emulator for Windows.  Links: Homepage - Download

Saturday, June 16, 2001

	The Biggest Plus/4 D64 Archive Just Got Bigger!!
	(posted by Lando - 07:54) This time around you get 211 D64 images. The disk numbering ranges from 101-200, all zipped and comes in at a stonking 20meg in total. Yet again jam packed with the sceners work containing Games, Demos, Utilities, Tools, Disk Mags, Music, Pictures, and much more.....  Link: Commodore Plus/4 World

Friday, June 15, 2001

Console Classix Goes Live!

(posted by Roni - 22:36) Console Classix, the next generation in legal emulation, has officially opened it's doors today for business. If you are unaware of Console Classix (C2) they have developed a legal way for others to play their old NES favorites on a specialized version of nester for Windows. Pretty much they have just as good of a selection as Blockbuster did back in the day, only you don't have to leave home to rent your favorite NES games anymore ;) With the newest addition of thier software now dubbed Console Classix Client they have officially opened thier doors. At 6:00pm tonight (a few hours ago here) they started the service as a fully functional Nintendo game rental service. At $5.49 per month you can rent any NES game they have, as long as it's in stock anyway. Just like going to the video store (are we emulating real life here ;) The longer of a membership you sign up for the bigger discount you get, they even have a system of referals which in turn could make you get away with paying nothing for the service! Now I must say, I have used the software and I find it is a perfectly legal and easy to use service, you open it up and pick a game and rent it. It's as easy as ever and you don't have to worry about having pirated material on your computer because the ROM file is NOT permanently stored on your filesystem. All in all if you've been searching for the legal way to emulate without playing all those useless public domain ROMs then this is your chance, go have some fun!  Link: Console Classix

Tuesday, June 12, 2001

	WIZ-BIZ and LIFETERM: two graphic adventures jewel released.
	(posted by rOuGh - 22:55) Both games have been released by Chromance including their manuals. Wiz-Biz features humour and fantasy, you have to get out of a friend's dungeon who put you there for transforming him into a salamander and in Lifeterm you have to escape from a prison planet in the far future else you will be there a life long.  Link: Pirates Portal

	22 More Commodore C16/Plus4 Tap Images!!
	(posted by Lando - 17:32) This upload has a couple of net firsts in any format which are 3D Glooper, Blockbusters C16 and Plus4 versions, Football Manager and Treasure Hunter. There's also a couple of nice additions to the archive being Bridge Head Plus/4 and Survivors!! Grab a copy of Yape or Artifex Plus/4 emus and have some real retro fun :-)  Link: Commodore Plus/4 World

Lemon goes cartridge mad

(posted by Lee - 04:35) Loads of new Cart release dumps for the Commodore 64 over at Lemon (Remember Emu-lmao, this is not my site- Do I still get a mention :) The carts are: Astroblitz, Badlands, Batman, Battle Command, Battlezone, Castle Hassle, Chase HQ II, Checkers, Close Encounters, Cyberball, Diamond Mine, Dot Gobbler, Dobule Dragon, Espial, Gridrunner, Jaw Breaker, Juice, The Last Ninja Remix, Lazer Zone, Learning Leeper, Lode Runner, Lunar Leeper, Mario's Brewery, Maze Master, Minnesofta Fat's Pool Challenge, Motor Mania, Mountain King, Mr. Cool, Mr. TNT, Myth, Narco Police, Oils Well, Pang, Pastfinder, The Pit, Power Play, Princess and Frog, Sammy Lightfood, Satan, Save New York, Seafood, Space Ricoshay, Space Shuttle, Spacegun, Spy Hunter, Star Trek, Star Wars, Super Zaxxon, Tank Wars, Threshold, Trashman, Up' Down and Zaxxon. Phew! Some classics games in there, get them all from Lemon  Link: Lemon

	Gngb Interview
	(posted by Lee - 04:29) LinuxEmu has done an interview with the main coder of the GameBoy emulator gngb. (available for Linux & Dos) Read this great read at the link  Link: Interview

The first World Champion on classic video games crowned

(posted by Lee - 04:21) News from Twin Galaxies man, Walter Day.. Over the weekend of May 31-June 3rd, Dwayne Richard, 31, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, defeated an international field of classics videogame superstars to win the 1st Annual Classic Video Game World Championship, co-sponsored by the Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard and the famous Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire Playing on five different titles: Wizard of Wor, Robotron, Pole Position, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Qix and Joust, Dwayne beat them all with the best overall score. At the end of the event, the players cast ballots to select the titles for next year's event, scheduled for June 6-9, 2002 at the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, NH. The contest games will be Galaxian, Carnival, Donkey Kong, Jr., Elevator Action, Crystal Castles, Arkanoid and Tempest. More information over at TG, Thanks Walter  Link: Twin Galaxies

Wonderswan Emulator!

(posted by Zoop - 03:49) Dox has released today the first version of Cygne, his Wonderswan emulator, being the first one to play commercial games! For those who doesn't know about Wonderswan, it is Bandai handheld console and was released in Japan a few years ago. This year, Bandai released the color version of it (which is not yet emulated). With well known games like Rockman (Megaman) or Puzzle Bobble, but also a bunch of games not exported outside of Japan, it is worth trying the emulator if you're a curious player and never played Wonderswan. Thanks to Ne7 for the news!  Link: Cygne Homepage

Monday, June 11, 2001

THE DOUBLE jewel version released on the C64.

(posted by rOuGh - 15:56) The much wanted football manager game The Double was jewel cracked by cHrOmAnCe. Improvents go as following... manual added, 2 cheats, trash removed, defrozen, another team than Reading eligible, a graphics flicker bugs removed. All work done by rOuGh. By the way 2 FULL discs of NEW Remember oldie jewel cracks will be released on June 25th. Yes, your thirst will be stilled.  Link: Get THE DOUBLE here

Sunday, June 10, 2001

	Chrono released new MP3
	(posted by Chris - 03:47) Chrono has released a new song named "Lamers", which - you guessed it - is about lamers in the emulation scene. While this is an old and apparently never ending debate, it's still worth the download. The MP3 among other stuff can be found at the link below.  Link: Chrono's Mix

Saturday, June 09, 2001

Huge AMI Sector One update

(posted by Bernd - 17:57) Today there is a huge update on AMI Sector One: Download the biggest legal and licensed Amiga game which is available on the Internet: It is called The Case of the Cautious Condor (65 MB to download!). This real-time adventure was released in 1991 for the Amiga CDTV. It had wonderful graphics and sounds and got the title 'Game of the Year' in Japan. Of course many other new games like Blood 'n' Bullets, Slap 'n' Tickle, Bill etc. can be downloaded. In the apps section there are now the Amiga programs highlights Genesis - The Third Day (fractal landscapes) and Deluxe Music 2.0 (notation tool). Also the Amiga group Wanted Team cooperated with us: They have now Internet pages on ASO which contain players, Amiga tunes and other interesting stuff. And of course this update features new coverscans. Finally the Amiga Games Compendium was updated with more than 1100 Amiga games entries. AMI Sector One has it all.  Link: AMI Sector One

Game Derby

(posted by Zoop - 08:04) "Remy Saville and Luke Hetherington (AKA Remy, Luke & Associates) have created a game for the classic gaming community called Game Derby. In Game Derby two players battle each other by answering multiple choice questions about video game trivia (classic arcade, video game history, imports, consoles, computers, and video game pop culture) or by competing in Top Secret Robots. Top Secret Robots is a split screen puzzle shooter best described as a mix between Twin Bee and Twinkle Star Sprites." I download and tried the game myself, and must say I was pretty impressed. The graphics and design are excellent, and the few questions I was able to see offered great answers with history facts and explanation. I can only recommend you to support the authors of this software after trying out the demo version, it worth the 20$, really!  Link: Game Derby Homepage

Console Classix

(posted by Roni - 02:54) This is a subject of which I touched on the other day, in a post I deleted. Since then I have had many converations with the webmaster of this site. I have concluded a few various things of which I felt I should re-post a new statement reguarding the site. I am now fully aware and would like to spread the word that Console Classix is a legal and legit website. You can rent games by paying a charge; just like the video store. Currently, you can rent Nintendo games online and play them through a modified version of nester which only allows you to play games that they have in stock. They do claim to have these games in their ownership and to have dumped copies of the ROMs themselves. In using this site, you technically rent a game and play it on nester. If a game is not in stock, you simply cannot rent it, meaning you can not play it. This is a step taken toward a legal way to let people use emulators without the worry of legal trouble. I for one do agree something like this is the way emulation should be going and would like to encourage people to support their cause. I've been involved in emulation for years now and this is the first step I've seen taken with the law in mind and I think this is a good new beginning. Console Classix has a idea that might help make emulation into emulation again instead of the current emulation = warez tag applied to this scene. So please show your support and see where this can go.  Link: Console Classix

Tuesday, June 05, 2001

Xega v0.06 released!

(posted by Roni - 15:08) WOW!! I just downloaded this brand spanking new emu from it's page (which we host here on emucamp) and I must admit it has the BEST sound quality of any genesis emu I have ever heard. Xega is for Windows/Direct-X 8 and plays games great for a first release. And if your wondering about the sound, try your copy of Streets of Rage 2 (or Bare Knuckle 2 for you out of USAers) and tell me if you think that the voices sound next to perfect in this emu. It definately is the best if EVER heard, and I own a Genesis so I can prove it ;)  Link: Xega Homepage

Monday, June 04, 2001

AMI Sector One Update

(posted by Bernd - 12:43) AMI Sector One was updated with many new items: For instance you can now legally download all commercial Amiga games from the company "Image Tech" (now "Webfoot Technologies"). Also various programmers allowed us to have their games online. Some of these games are "Quiksilver Pinball" and "Debut". Of course there are also some new additons in the apps area: "Megaboot", "Pumatracker" and the "LSD Docs Disks" Nr. 45-65 are only some of the new items. New coverscans, game soundtracks and a report about Commodore's wonder machine "CDTV" complete this update.  Link: AMI Sector One

Sunday, June 03, 2001

	WinUAE 0.8.16 Release 4
	(posted by rOuGh - 21:15) A new release of this Amiga emulator which features among others a fixed 50hz/60hz change and support for .gz files added.  Link: WinUAE

	CIA updated with some more original tapes, disks and cartridges.
	(posted by rOuGh - 20:01) The update features 5 Fisher-Price, the Batman, Battle Command and Last Ninja Remix .CRTs - Armalyte, Fort Apocalypse, Frantic Freddie, Shinobi and Starquake .TAPs and a .G64 of Spindizzy. These are all formats to preserve C64 games in their most original form.  Link: C64 Internet Archive

	.TZX vault update with 109! new tape images
	(posted by rOuGh - 19:44) A huge update brings you another huge bunch of perfect Spectrum tape copies (similar to .TAPs on the Commodores. Most are re-dumps of speedlock tapes, others softlock and some raries.  Link: .TZX vault

Saturday, June 02, 2001

505 DM again!!!

(posted by rOuGh - 21:34) A few weeks ago the ultrarare C64 game Murder was won by a Gamebase 64 member for the top bid of 505 DM. Currently there is another auction going on the same level: Ultima Trilogy 1-3 which is not that rare but still someone is willing to pay that much. Really cheap are Seven Cities of Gold (200DM!) and Last Ninja Special Pack (90DM) compared. For non-Germans: 1DM = app. 0.85 Euro, 0.33 British Pounds.  Link: Auction

	Atlantis II for the VCS2600 discovered.
	(posted by rOuGh - 21:27) Atlantis' producer Imagic held a competition for the top highscore on the game. The 4 best would have gone to the Bermudas to battle it out finally (no joke!). Unluckily the game was too easy so they produced an advanced and more difficult version to settle down who is the best. Now this rare ROM has been found.  Link: Atlantis II

Video games encyclopaedia regularly updated.

(posted by rOuGh - 21:20) Just mentioning that Pirates Portal - the games encyclopaedia is regularly updated, e.g. today night with the C64 games Wizard Warz, Xenomorph, Street Fighter USA, Rally Speedway and Zolo. Use SIDplug to enhance your joy on my page to listen online to all C64 game musics including every sub tune (unlike other sites). Also submit all your personal top scores to have them listed up on the game page.  Link: PIRATES PORTAL

	German C16 site with .TAPs of German Educational software
	(posted by rOuGh - 21:15) For those who collect everything including this weirdo stuff it's Hoppy bringing you tapped cassettes with scanned manual and cover. For those who don't a 'tap' is a very exact copy a Commodore tape including the sloooow loading time  Link: WWW.C16.DE

	Battle Toads tribute site launched.
	(posted by rOuGh - 21:11) Here's someones endless love for this frog fighter. Featured are all known versions for all systems including the arcade.  Link: World of Battletoads

	EmuUnlimited keeps on hosting new projects
	(posted by rOuGh - 21:06) This time it's an ZX Spectrum emulator for the Game Boy Advanced (!!!)  Link: ZX Emu

	A brandnew and excellent C64 role playing game !!!
	(posted by rOuGh - 21:02) Finally Newcomer a C64 game over 7 40-track length disks has been released. The Hungarian programmers worked 8 years to bring you this marvellous piece which is featured in Hungarian or English language. Head over to the developers site cos the best is that it is for free!!!  Link: Newcomer

Friday, June 01, 2001

Xega revealed!

(posted by Zoop - 19:06) Michel Gerritse's (aka Gerrie) Xega emulator is now of public knowledge with the opening of its homepage, hosted there at Emulation Camp. Xega is an upcoming Megadrive emulator for Windows. Michel is still hard working on a first version of the emulator, planning a release in the following few weeks. Stay tuned for it, and in the meanwhile, be sure to check out the homepage for some screenshots, and maybe other things!  Link: Xega Homepage