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How To Retro about 8 months ago

Retro Systems – Your retro journey starts here Find out everything you need to know about emulation, classic games, and articles about your favourite classic systems. Acorn A big name in the ’80s in the UK, Acorn produced cla …

Systems

How To Retro about 8 months ago

Retro Systems – Your retro journey starts here Find out everything you need to know about emulation, classic games, and articles about your favourite classic systems. Acorn A big name in the ’80s in the UK, Acorn produced cla …
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TWO-FER #25: Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Konami, 1984/1985)

Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog about 8 months ago

Originally developed and released for the arcades by Konami Industry Co. Ltd. in 1984.Acorn Electron & BBC Micro version written by Peter Johnson. Published by Imagine Software in 1985.Amstrad CPC version written by Keith Wilson and Brian Beuken, with …

introduce yourself • Hi, 40 years late to the BBC party but here I am...

Stardot about 8 months ago

Hi all, the amount of information on this forum is absolutely staggering. Like discovering a hidden world.Back in the day I always fancied owning a BBC computer, but they were out of my price range. I went the cheapo Sinclair/Atari route instead, and in …

8-bit acorn software: classic games • Can anyone identify this game?

Stardot about 8 months ago

First of all, greetings! I'm Lee and I signed up just to ask this question, though I would like to stick around as I love all retro machines!I'm mainly from a ZX Spectrum background and have never owned an Acorn, but there was one in our primary school …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #102

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I finished Starfield! And as promised – when I also promised not to …
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Games • Dukes of Hazzard

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

Does anyone own an original copy of this game?I find it very hard to believe that Elite should have released this in 1987.Everything about it screams late 1984, early 1985, but since the ZX Spectrum version was released in 1985, I’m inclined to think th …

ZX Spectrum, ZX81, SAM Coupé, TSConf, QL, Next • Saving games in ZX Spectrum core

MISTerFPGA about 8 months ago

Hi folks, hoping someone can help me. This seems like a silly problem and I'm sure there is a way to so this, only I can't figure out how.Last night I was playing a game and wanted to save my progress to continue at a later timeas it's one of these old ma …
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Discovering R.B.I. Baseball on NES

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

I regularly come up with stuff here I say I’ll come back to and look at it more detail sometime later, and do you know what? Sooner or later I generally do! Either a man of my word or it just saves me thinking what’s next, take your pick! Let me give …

C64 or Atari ST out?

VCFed about 8 months ago

Yes, I know it is my own decision, but still, insights would be appreciated: My collection is based on one criterium: it must be a system, or part of a system, or at least closely related to a system, I used to own or work with when younger. This way my c …

PENGOMini - A fun for all the family Arcade game for the ZX Spectrum

Indie Retro News about 8 months ago

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ZX Bomb Sweeper - Another Game & Watch title arrives on the ZX Spectrum!

Indie Retro News about 8 months ago

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Down The Pipe Reflushed - Guide young Turdesley in this updated ZX Spectrum game by DF Design

Indie Retro News about 8 months ago

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Exo-Tical - A new ZX Spectrum game by Roolandoo that's well worth a play!

Indie Retro News about 8 months ago

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Discovering G-LOC: Air Battle on Nintendo Switch / Arcade

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Was there ever a better example of style over substance in gaming than Dragon’s Lair? That’s what I was wondering recently as I failed once again to get off the very first screen of the 1989 Atari ST port of the 1983 Cinematronics arcade game! There h …
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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • ABUG SOUTH (in person) 10 to 12 November 2023 (booking thread)

Stardot about 8 months ago

ABUG SouthI am pleased to announce that booking is now open for the next in person ABUG South.This will be the last event that I will be organising (but the events will continue into 2024 and hopefully beyond).VenueThe event will take place from Friday 10 …
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Episode 114 - Is Atari Good Again?! + Itchy And Scratchy In Miniature Golf Madness vs. Putt and Putter

Pixel Gaiden Gaming Podcast about 8 months ago

We're back for Episode 114! In this episode Cody and Eric catch up on the news +  Battle Of The Systems: Itchy And Scratchy In Miniature Golf Madness (Gameboy) vs. Putt and Putter (Game Gear) We are doing news for the first monthly episode and then "cat …

CrazyForest - A rather challenging Arcade game released for the ZX Spectrum by Daniel Isoba

Indie Retro News about 8 months ago

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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #99

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I’m not sure why it seems to be an unpopular opinion, but having just f …
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Software • Something new

Tatung Forum about 8 months ago

While I was on holiday over the last 2 weeks I had a go at some more z88dk coding.Here is my initial try at a ZX Spectrum Screen$ (.scr file) load and display.Still need to work out the colours, but it loads in thirds just like the original speccy.Having …

Batmanolo Against The Mutant Attack To Weepingtown - A new ZX Spectrum 48k game from Nahell Tresal

Indie Retro News about 9 months ago

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My Life With… Super Stunt Man on ZX Spectrum

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

Looking at my relatively recent list of top twenty-five favourite TV shows, there’s a very healthy representation of what you might collectively call Saturday afternoon TV from the 1980s, including a few that span the seventies and eighties, just to be …
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Ultimate's 'Atic Atac' Gets Fanmade Remake For Spectrum Next

Time Extension about 9 months ago

Did we mention it's free?If you grew up in the '80s or are a diehard fan of Rare, you'll no doubt be familiar with its predecessor Ultimate Play The Game. Established in the small market town of Ashby-De-La-Zouch, in the heart of the UK, the company was re …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #98

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… My 2D Sonic journey is almost complete, with just Sonic Blast on Game Gea …

FRGCB's Let's Play series returns for another set of episodes!

Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog about 9 months ago

While the comparisons are still on a break of sorts, it's time for another announcement. After an unnecessarily long break, we're back with another set of Let's Play videos. In case you haven't seen these videos before on FRGCB's YouTube channel, it's all …