Powerglove - The most ambitious Lazycow WIP Amiga game to date from the C64

In 2013 Lazycow released the C64 run 'n' shooter as an entry in the 2013 RGCD 16K C64 Game Development competition, where it came 3rd place out of 15. This same game then appeared as a final version and released as a 16KB physical game cartridge much later in 2014. But not stopping there, in 2015 the game was made available as an exclusive PC, MAC and Linux version based on the original with some minor enhancements, such as parallax scrolling and optional pimped spritework. But after all that you'd think the game wouldn't appear on any other systems seeing as it had gone from the retro to the modern. But during the early hours of today, RGCD has announced the Amiga conversion and in their words " Powerglove is already shaping up to be his most ambitious Amiga game to date ".

WinUAE 3.3.0 Beta 7 - More bug fixes for the best Amiga emulator!

On a more positive note for the Amiga community, considering the news of Dave Needle's passing. Toni Wilen has released the latest Amiga emulator 32bit and 64bit update of ' WinUAE 3.3.0 Beta 7', with even more bug fixes and improvements over from the previous version. As we missed the other versions in our news postings, this is a bigger update than usual and from the look of it, we can't be that far off a final 3.3.0.

The Story of the Amstrad CPC in Pixels - Is Chris Wilkins teasing his next book?

Chris Wilkins just wont sit down and take a break, as already after successfully launching The story of the Commodore 64 in pixels , The History of Ocean Software , The ZX Spectrum Story in Pixels, The story of the Oliver Twins, The Story of US Gold, and The History of Ocean Software. He has now teased what could be the next book for retro fans across the globe,' The Story of the Amstrad CPC in Pixels '. Yes indeed finally after all this time and many requests, Chris Wilkins could be doing a book on the 80's home computer the Amstrad CPC by founder Alan Sugar!

Dave Needle - Amiga Co-Founder & Atari Lynx Co-Inventor has passed away

After so many have passed away this year already, it is both with a heavy heart and sadness to say that Dave Needle, Co-Founder of the Amiga Computer, Co-Inventor of the Atari Lynx and vice-president of 3DO passed away yesterday 20/02/16.  Dave Needle was well known in the completion of the Lorraine project (Amiga 1000), and was also one of the main engineers of the custom chips of the Amiga computer. Later co-inventing the Atari Lynx which we knew as that cool little handheld that plays games such as California Games. Away from his Hardware engineering status, he was also a character, he had a great personality and was loved by many. As can be seen by the pictures provided by Marcel Franquinet and the video below.... RIP Dave Needle, you'll be missed!

Golf Daisuki!: O.B. Club - Anime sports SNES fun gets an English translation

I might be falling asleep at my computer, but I'm awake just enough to write about the latest English translation release of the SNES game ' Golf Daisuki!: O.B. Club ', also known as ' I Love Golf!: Out of Bounds Club ' by Dynamic-Designs. I have never heard of this game before, but Romhacking has said that this game was originally released and distributed through the Satellaview Nintendo network for Super Famicon in Japan, and is a Miniature golf and regular golf combined style of game.

Castaway - Reidrac's latest ZX Spectrum 48K game!

I knew we wouldn't have to wait too long for the next ZX Spectrum game and sure enough from the creator of Escape from Colony 8, Space Pest Control, The Legend of Traxtor and The Return of Traxtor comes a brand new ZX Spectrum 48K title for the ZX Dev 2015 called Castaway, developed by Reidrac. This is a platformer made in C and ASM, using Z88DK cross-compiler and the SP1 library!

Crazy Otto - Pac-Man style antics from Extend Mode - Gets a Steam Greenlight campaign!

We were recently given the heads up from one of our twitter followers, of a new game that's currently aiming for a Steam Greenlight success, that looks very similar to Pac-Man but with more than just your usual scattered pellets. In fact, ' Crazy Otto ' as the game is called, is actually a 2016 conversion of the Arcade game of the same name but developed by Extend Mode. Unlike that 1980's title though, this one adds an extra twenty four levels, eight simultaneous players, full support for vertical monitors and what I think sounds really awesome in ' Crazy Otto ', is the ability to play as either the good guys or the bad guys, and battle it out with your friends.

The Amstrad CPC 6128 USB Floppy Emulator Hardware BIG Review!

After our BIG review for the DDI3 USB Floppy Emulator for the Amstrad CPC 464, developed by Zaxon also known as Piotr Bugaj. We thought it was about time the Amstrad 6128 also had a device of its own, so it too could play demo's and games stored on a USB memory stick. Thankfully Zaxon was happy to help and after a couple of months of teasing at the design stage, we finally have ' The Amstrad CPC 6128 USB Floppy Emulator ' in our hands for the second of our Amstrad reviews!

Sam's Journey - This beautiful looking C64 creation gets a BIG feature list!

After waking up after a rather rough night to say the least, I was hoping for something to put a smile on my face from the gaming scene. Sure enough directly from Knights of Bytes, they have finally announced the feature list for the incredible looking C64 game that is currently in development ' Sam's Journey ', of which we have featured as soon as it was first mentioned. Not just that, but the developer Chester Kollschen and team under the label Knights of Bytes is also looking for your financial support via his Patreon page.