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Rare’s Scrapped Game Boy Competitor Rediscovered After 30 Years

On: September 13, 2022

When considering retro portable consoles, the first one that usually comes to mind is the Nintendo Game Boy. It’s no surprise given that it had sold over 118 million units worldwide and allowed gamers to take iconic games on the go. There wasn’t anything that could beat it at the time,Read More →

Nintendo GameCube Bluetooth Mod Gets Retro Fans Excited

By: Christian Cawley

On: September 8, 2022

In: Retro Consoles, Retro gear, Retro hardware

This is pretty amazing: a Nintendo GameCube Bluetooth mod that replaces the original controller connector board. It’s a solder-free solution to adding any Bluetooth controller to the GameCube and it’s causing a bit of excitement… Co-developed by LaserBear Industries and BlueRetro creator DarthCloud, the mod adapts BlueRetro for GameCube inRead More →

Do Floppy Disks Last Longer Than Previously Thought?

By: Christian Cawley

On: September 1, 2022

In: Miscellaneous retro stuff, Retro Computers, Retro gear

Could those retro game disks you see for sale on eBay actually be worth buying? Do floppy disks still work? A recent English-language tweet from Japan’s digital minister Taro Kono states that his government’s use of floppy disks is set to end, a decade after Sony stopped production of theRead More →

Evercade THEC64 Team Up Happening, with a 14 Commodore 64 Game Cart!

By: Christian Cawley

On: July 7, 2022

In: Retro Computers, Retro Consoles, Retro games news, Retro gear

After much speculation, the news has been released: 14 Commodore 64 games are heading to Evercade with a new THEC64 cartridge collection! This amazing news is the result of a team up by Blaze Entertainment and Retro Games LTD, working together to make a THEC64 cartridge possible on Evercade. HereRead More →

Amazing Portable Commodore 64 Developed – a C64 Laptop!

By: Christian Cawley

On: May 22, 2022

In: Retro Computers, Retro gear

You may have heard of the original portable Commodore 64, the SX64. Not quite a laptop, it was more akin to a particularly bulky oscilloscope, with disk drive and a small display. Not quite a C64 laptop! Forty years later, however, someone has finally found a way to build aRead More →

Now Someone Sticks an A500 Mini in an Amiga 1200

By: Christian Cawley

On: April 27, 2022

In: Retro Computers, Retro Consoles, Retro gear

If you have a spare Amiga 1200 case and an A500 Mini, this might be the project for you. The YouTube Retro Recipes channel has demonstrated how to repurpose a discarded Amiga 1200 and replace the faulty internals with an A500 Mini. Channel host Perifractic provides a detailed guide toRead More →

Pringles Celebrates ZX Spectrum’s 40th Birthday

By: Christian Cawley

On: April 22, 2022

In: Retro Computers, Retro gear

Ever thought a tube of crisps would get into celebrating a retro computer’s birthday? No, nor did we. But, it has finally happened. The team behind Pringles’ UK Twitter account started their march towards retro relevancy with a surprising post that boasts a secret feature… https://twitter.com/Pringles_UK/status/1514229340132847813?s=20&t=qv58S_wTYxPNK412uJlnaA That’s right: it’s aRead More →

Did a BBC Micro Facilitate a Chat With a 16th Century Man?

By: Christian Cawley

On: November 27, 2021

In: Retro Computers, Retro gear

Thr BBC Micro was famously used in schools throughout the 1980s. What could it communicate with people from the 16th century or even the far future? The so-called Dodleston Messages concern a house built in the site of an old farmhouse, where a couple and their lodger lived. Between 1984Read More →

Original Apple-1 Computer Sells for $400,000

By: Christian Cawley

On: November 10, 2021

In: Retro Computers, Retro gear

We all know Apple products are expensive, but who would have thought an Apple-1 would fetch more than a modified iPhone with a USB port? Listed at John Moran Auctioneers for its November 9th event, the Apple-1 had two previous owners, and was one of 200 produced in 1976 forRead More →

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