Return to Blacktooth: A Head Over Heels Adventure, is a sequel almost 40 years in the making, and it’s coming to Amiga and Atari ST! In news that has dropped without any warning at all, Thalamus Digital has announced Return to Blacktooth: A Head Over Heels Adventure. This is, unsurprisingly,Read More →
This Commodore 64 cartridge changed how I used computers, and redefined my understanding of what was possible. I don’t know when I first saw the advert for the Acton Replay cartridge. It would have been in Zzap64!, or Commodore User, and after I became aware of carts like the FreezeRead More →
The collection features original Boulder Dash levels and C64 and Atari 400/800 graphics, along with new visuals and challenges. Almost a year after it was announced, a release date has been confirmed for the Boulder Dash 40th Anniversary collection. Featuring music from Turrican maestro Chris Huelsbeck, this collection of 180Read More →
Wow, this is one I did not expect to see coming back. The long forgotten ChipWits — an intriguing puzzler on the Commodore 64 as well as its original Mac and Apple II versions — is getting a reboot. But the thing is, you can play the original already, thanksRead More →
Way back when, I discovered a piece of software called SEUCK, or Shoot ‘Em Up Construction Kit. My face doubtless lit up when I saw it in a magazine, and I spent countless trips to the shops to find a copy for my C64. Several years later, I did. AndRead More →
One night, I risked everything (well, homework) to strike missile bases in the Middle East… In the late 1980s and early 1990s, western activity in the Middle East was largely (a couple of conflicts aside) represented by airstrikes. Some of these might have been launched from F-15 jets, and othersRead More →
Aiming to raise over £50,000, the Commodore Computer Museum is a Kickstarter for all fans of C64, VIC-20, and Amiga systems and their heritage. Promising to focus on the history of the overlooked Commodore computing brand the project promises to be a must-visit. The only problem is that it isRead More →
The Raspberry Pi Pico is the heart of potentially the smallest emulation platform. Twitter user bobricious has created a system that run Commodore 64, Atari 800, and ZX Spectrum games with a VGA output. With just a 133 MHz dual-core RP2040 processor, the sub-£5 board can be attached to aRead More →
A new range of European keyboard layouts is coming to the 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard range. I’ve never really taken to mechanical keyboards. In fact, until the last few years, I didn’t even know they were actually a thing. As a kid my mum had a typewriter. That’s probably theRead More →
