Tuesday, August 28, 2001

	Great online Games.
	(posted by rOuGh - 17:38) Check out this link for best entertainment...  Link: FBI

	New Atari 2600 releases
	(posted by Lee - 05:11) AtariAge has got some new releases under its belt today: Thwocker:New Prototype dump of an unreleased Activision title. 80% complete and funny enough found in a local thrift store by an Atari fan! VideoLife:Extremely rare Atari 2600 game with less than 500 carts were originally produced. The roms to play on Atari emus are available over at...  Link: AtariAge

Monday, August 27, 2001

Vectrex, ROMs, and more...

(posted by Chris - 15:09) Big update @ www.retrobase.com! What's new: - added a Vectrex section, done by Frogacuda - added many freeware ROMs for all covered systems to the site - added pictures and details of console hardware - added links to the most popular DOS and Windows based emulators Also, RetroBasegot a complete new design with some nice features. Over 40 hours went into it. Go and check it out at the link provided below :)  Link: RetroBase

Saturday, August 25, 2001

MAME 0.54

(posted by fixo - 07:10) A new version of MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, has been released bringing it to 0.54. Next to the usual source, graphics and sound changes, these new games are supported: Fire Barrel [Bryan McPhail, Nicola Salmoria] Time Limit [Ernesto Corvi] Youjyuden [Nicola Salmoria] Gulf Storm [Nicola Salmoria] Minesweeper [Frank Palazzolo] There are four different binaries (runnable programs), one for DOS and one for Win32 console, and i686 optimized versions for both, available for download at the MAME page linked below.  Link: MAME

Tuesday, August 21, 2001

	Elevator Action released for VCS2600.
	(posted by rOuGh - 00:26) The Classic Gaming Expo gives you fresh stuff for all you Atari consoles lovers. Get a .bin working in z26 but not in Stella at AtariAge.  Link: Here!

Monday, August 20, 2001

No more free retro 8bit games for PCs???

(posted by rOuGh - 23:20) I just read on Retrospec that John Dow author of PC remakes of ultra mega classics as Attack of the Mutant Camels, Pssst and Cookie intends stop coding his games for the public for being fed up with some people whining for more and more free games. If you appreciate his great work and want to tell John about it or even better donate him some cash (if you got some, unlike me :) then let him know via their guestbook (down below on the page). Mind! He was working on titles as Atic Atac, Fred and Zub for your Primitive Computer!  Link: Retrospec

Atari XL/XE still alive.

(posted by rOuGh - 23:04) Ever heard of the Atari XL/XE? A machine which came up in the times of C64 and was quite similar to program but technically a bit better. For usual reasons as worse advertising, C64 being already market leader and some bad luck it wasn't the hoped success. Nowadays there is still games being released for this machine, especially Poland is active where it's rather common. Click on Mr Bacardi's site for some information about a platformer Mr. Proper" and a Doom (!) adaption.  Link: Mr Bacardi

	Mame Targets is back.
	(posted by rOuGh - 22:41) After some abscence caused by a drive crash the site which deals with arcade machines yet to be emulated in MAME has returned moving from Arcade Collecting to MAME themselves. In the new update Randy explains what he's the doing right now (the usual stuff.. too much work!) and changed the to-be-emulated lists.  Link: MAME target

Emu64 v1.2a Beta

(posted by rOuGh - 19:30) So with all the C64 news posts here, you might also want to actually find some kind of emulator to use the stuff with, right? Well if you happen to understand German and want to run C64 *.PRG files, you might want to check out Emu64, a Commodore64 emulator written specifically for Windows9x/ME/2k machines. Version 1.2a Beta has just been made available by author Thorsten Kattanek and here's what's happened for this release: Bugfix im CPU (SBC, DCP) SID over DirektSound (is a not perfect!): all 3 Oszillatoren / all 4 Wave's / Envelope Generator SID Monitor (little toy :-) ) Emu64 runnig under win2000 now Get the download at the official (German) Emu64 page linked below. News posted by Fixo. The link was wrong. :)  Link: Emu64

Saturday, August 18, 2001

	German text adventure entirely translated (C64)
	(posted by rOuGh - 18:15) I translated the German adventure TKKG dealing with characters of the kids book. The game was a budget releases from Europa in 1985. I added the entire manual, a cheat, map, walkthrough and many many bug fixes and cosmetic touches which the game really needed.  Link: Pirates Portal

	Check this out!
	(posted by rOuGh - 01:44) If you want to watch a real good website with a lot of reminisscences of 64 games then check out the link below. First of all remove the frame in the lower border by clicking on the text 'Frame ausblenden' then press F11 (using Explorer) and enjoy!  Link: Seven Up

C64 news...

(posted by rOuGh - 01:26) Three really new released C64 games are available on Pirates Portal: - ICECAVE a contribution to the mini game competition on this side. There are two categories for 8Bit computers 2K and 512Bytes. Everyone can participate sending a game for any 8bit platform. There are already several entries for Spectrum and C64 - T-26 preview a Uridium clone originally written beginning of the 90s by a member of the demo group Camelot, never been released to the public before - Cosmic Cyklon preview a space war game also never been released to the public although it's already ten years old. Furthermore 'Commodore Format Library' opened their gates. Their mission is to provide information and all scanned issues of this start 90s 64 magazine.  Link: CF Library

Wednesday, August 15, 2001

	QUEENS - nice draughts variant for C64
	(posted by rOuGh - 22:39) Just a little manual translation. A nice conversion from Slovakia of this old table game.  Link: PIRATES

Tuesday, August 14, 2001

Dega v1.05

(posted by fixo - 13:16) Dega, a Sega Master System and Game Gear emulator for Windows 95, NT, 98, 2000, ME or XP, has been updated to v1.05. Here's the changes in this release: Added triple-buffering... in a window! Overlays are now triple-buffered(if you have enough video memory) Added a switch between sound off, 12khz and 44.1khz Added fullscreen mode. Press Alt-Enter to activate it Get the download at the official Dega page. It seems to be a good week for Sega emulation fans!  Link: Dega

Monday, August 13, 2001

	TANK FIGHT C64!
	(posted by rOuGh - 21:48) Just a little number for collectors (means that it's a bad game..) Tank Fight aka Panzerkampf now available with translated manual.  Link: Pirates Portal

Meka 0.58c

(posted by fixo - 14:56) Today Zoop released v0.58c of Meka, a rather fabulous Sega Master System / Game Gear (and lesser known Sega systems that is) emulator for DOS. Here's the changes in this release: Fixed the missing soundcard selection menu in some cases Added printing of SDSC Header informations when found. The SDSC Header has been defined and created by the SMS Power developement team (based on Eric Quinn's idea) for homebrewn programs Drawn Latin-Extended characters (Unicode 0080-00FF) in the big font. Accents are now usable everywhere in MEKA. Be sure to use accents from the Latin-Extended table (usually used by Windows programs, not DOS ones) Added Spanish messages translations (by Antonio J. Bazalo) Added Portuguˆs messages translations (by Rodrigo C. Rubio) Added "WIP" (Work In Progress) parameter in language definition, to disable warnings and informations when the language is uncomplete Squashed one very minor flag bug in the browser when a ROM had an number after a space, at the end of its filename Head over to the MEKA page for the download.  Link: MEKA

Sunday, August 12, 2001

	C64 Renaming features all known 259 C64 cartridges dumps.
	(posted by rOuGh - 21:09) After a very long this site is updated again with all known C64 ROMs which have been dumped til now.  Link: C64 Renaming

	Relaunched Amiga web directory.
	(posted by rOuGh - 20:27) Jambo, an Amiga directory site has been re-designed, updated and re-launched. Check it out if you are looking for anything concerning Amiga emulation, there are masses of links.  Link: Jambo

	Rare C64 game La Aventura Espacial found.
	(posted by rOuGh - 20:23) I digged up this Spanish science fiction adventure game from my disc vaults, it is wanted all over the net, even Spanish emulation sites who have anything else miss the C64 adaption.  Link: Pirates Portal

Saturday, August 11, 2001

MAME v0.53

(posted by fixo - 22:27) MAME, the mother of arcade emulation is back once again with a new release. They're up to v0.53 which might look strange and it is: they have abandoned the "beta" numbering scheme, which "was becoming pointless". The current version is 0.53 because 0.36 (the last "non-beta" release) + .16 (the number of "beta" releases since then) = 0.52. To have an overview of all the changes regarding graphics, sound and drivers, please visit the official page and while there, grab the download and play!  Link: MAME

Gens v1.00

(posted by fixo - 08:04) Gens, a nice Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator for Windows, was updated to v1.00 with the following changes: Stretch option added PAT files automatically saved Kaillera client version updated to 0.84a 16/15 bits mode now auto-detected (no more choice in menu) 25% scanline render has been modified (equal to a 75% scanline in the old way) Sprite masking fixed (thanks Charles Mc Donald) Sprite table update fixed (thanks Charles Mc Donald) Sprite limit fixed Fixed a bug in the 68000 Starscream core (bit-shift instructions) 68000 interruption processing enterely rewritten H counter calculation modified V counter fixed VDP status flag fixed VDP status flag fixed Z80 interrupt timing modified (fix some sound problem) Window bug added in Gens 0.99 fixed Screen shot respect the game resolution (no more useless blank line) A minor bug in DAC sound fixed A minor bug in country detection fixed Others minors bugs fixed The author also mentions he's put a lot of effort in increases compatibility so combine that with all above changes and this looks like one hell of a serious update! Get the download from the Gens page linked below.  Link: Gens

Friday, August 10, 2001

	AdvanceMENU v1.13
	(posted by fixo - 04:54) AdvanceMENU is a pretty neat DOS front-end for MAME, MESS, RAINE and any other emulator. It has just been updated to v1.13 with some new features and a bug fix. To know the full story, head over to the main page linked below for the download and some nice screenshots of it's GUI.  Link: AdvanceMENU

Wednesday, August 08, 2001

	C16 demo archive.
	(posted by rOuGh - 20:02) The German C16 fanatics on www.c16.de opened a new archive for demos. The first update contains app. 50 disks to check out.  Link: C16 Inside

Monday, August 06, 2001

	A new C64 emulator HOXS64!
	(posted by rOuGh - 18:32) David Hottocks releases the first beta (v0.6a) of his newly public made C64 emulator, yet in a very early stage with no disk drive and sound support.  Link: Hoxs64

	JAE adds Carnival
	(posted by fixo - 14:15) Another arcade classic is emulated by JAE, the online Java Arcade Emulator: Carnival. Back in 1980 Sega made this really entertaining shooting game, which was quite successful. Check out Norbert's Emulators at the link below to play this and other classics in your browser.  Link: Norbert's Emulators

Sunday, August 05, 2001

New classics on AMI Sector One

(posted by Bernd - 10:31) With "Paradox Software" and "Hartwerk" there are another two companies which allowed us free distribution of their Amiga software on our website AMI Sector One. Some of the programs of these firms you can now legally download are "ST-Protector", "War Zone" and the translation program "Translate It". Also there is Ed Scio's futuristic flight simulation "Armour-Geddon". Many interesting Public Domain games and new Emerald Mine clones complete this small summer update.  Link: AMI Sector One

Friday, August 03, 2001

Sintendo Beta v0.10

(posted by fixo - 03:54) A new beta of Sintendo, the SNES emulator for Dreamcast, has been made available for the public. If you head over to the official Sintendo page and read the long and interesting post (btw the project started about 1 year ago), you see that author Sin stresses this release could be buggy and all that. Needless to say, I'm pretty sure many Dreamcast fans are happy enough anyway just because of the fact this project is still going so check and try.  Link: Sintendo

Thursday, August 02, 2001

	QUARTET, SHANGHAI and SHELLSHOCK jewelized.
	(posted by rOuGh - 17:14) Quartet has 4 cheats, a highscore saver and of course the loading screen, Shanghai with full instruction manual, one cheats and GREAT! support for TWO joystick, Shellshock a Commando clone has simply 7 cheats.  Link: Pirates Portal

Wednesday, August 01, 2001

	Jewel versions of 3 C64 games.
	(posted by rOuGh - 17:44) On Pirates Portal ASTEROIDS 64, BOMB RUNNER (a cool Bomb Jack Clone) and BALLIARDS are now available including multiple cheats, bug fixes and of course translated instruction manuals.  Link: Get'em!

	Doom emulator on the Dreamcast
	(posted by Lee - 15:33) Its been a while since I posted (mumble..mumble) but here is some good news: A pre-release demo of the all spanking new DOOM emulator ready for download to be used in your Dreamcast :) over at DC Grendel's.  Link: Doom