Friday, December 31st 2004 - Last updated @ 22:02 EST
Happy New Year - On behalf of everyone here at Retrogames.com, I would like to wish you and your family a happy new year.
That said, I'd like to urge everyone to donate money for the victims and survivors of the massive earthquake in Asia, killing more than 100,000 people (numbers increase every single day) and leaving millions homeless and without relatives.
- atila
Saturday, December 25th 2004 - Last updated @ 13:41 EST
ZSNES 1.40 - ZSNES 1.40 has been released! This is the first official release in about 2 1/2 years!
It's been a long time since a release and I'm very happy to finally make one. I would also like to thank everyone who has helped up get this release together. Enjoy the release. -Nach
SCUMMVM 0.70 - Well at least someone thought it would be cool make a release on XMAS! Changes:
Added preliminary support for 26 Humongous Entertainment titles
Added support for FLAC (lossless) encoded audio files
Added native support for Macintosh versions of some SCUMM games -- this means the 'rescumm' tool is now mostly obsolete, and you can now play those games directly from the original CD
Added smooth horizontal scrolling for The Dig, Full Throttle and COMI (matching the original engine)
Added support for compressed speech and music in Broken Sword 1 and 2
Merry XMAS! - After celebrating XMAS eve with a close group of African friends (very nice party indeed) and spending time with my Brazilian friends (eu te amo ;) afterwards (hey, gotta show my face everywhere), it is now time to wish all our visitors a very merry XMAS (with lotsa snow!), Happy Chanukah or Festivus. Whichever suits you best. Go easy on the eggnog, New Year's Eve is around the corner ;)
- atila
Wednesday, December 22nd 2004 - Last updated @ 15:55 EST
Don't play with fireworks, kids! - Either that, or don't audition for Jackass, the show is off the air, okay ?! Click here and find out why he is not Steve-O, but Steve-No :)
- atila
Monday, December 20th 2004 - Last updated @ 14:29 EST
Richard Bannister Takes Time Off - Richard Bannister has decided he's had enough of emulation for the time being and will not be updating his software for some months. The exact reasons can be found at the link above. That's what I've done a couple of times, it's usually very refreshing :) Go ahead, Richard, enjoy yourself!
- atila
Sunday, December 19th 2004 - Last updated @ 18:01 EST
Suprnova.org RIP - For those of you, who frequented Suprnova.org (like myself) for your bittorrent needs, it truly is a sad day. The site is no more, although there are still a few alternatives available, it won't be the same. Over the past two weeks, many torrent sites have pulled the plug or have had it pulled for them. (while I was writing this update, Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U was playing on internet radio)
- atila
PCSX2 Bugfix - There has been a minor update to Thursday's release of this PS2 emu, here's what was fixed:
anyone that d/led the pcsx2 win32 version (not the developers one) pls redownload again since there was a small bug that prevented the memcards from working properly . We apologize :D
Thursday, December 16th 2004 - Last updated @ 20:43 EST
Tatjana - I just returned home from the city, where I saw Tatjana perform live. She's a singer/actress (IMDB) and looked like Pamela Anderson from before Pam actually got on the scene. She's actually over 40 now and would rate as a MILF (yeah I know, male chauvinist pig, yadda yadda yadda ;), were it not that she does not have any kids. To my surprise, her hair was BROWN, so she kinda looked better.
Yeah, performance was good, too bad her voice is not *that* good (but at least she knew that, she was making fun of herself ;) Why am I writing all this for you to read? I have no idea, it's nearly 3AM and I can't sleep, I guess. Retroblog, anyone?
- atila
PCSX2 0.7 Released - A new version of this WIP (aren't all emus WIP?) PS2 emu has been released, more games seem to 'work' right now. I use that term loosely. Or is it lightly? I can't remember ;) Run the emu and post screenshots of games at their forum. Thanks to Europop for the news.
- atila
Gmail addy - Since my RG.COM mail address is near unusable because of spam, someone was kind enough to invite me to some Gmail action (gee, I make that sound so nasty ;), so you can reach me at (retroatila _at_ gmail.com). I'm not writing it as I should, because spambots are harvesting.
- atila
MagicEngine v1.0.0 PR 8 - MagicEngine, the PC-Engine/Turbografx-16 hardware emulator, has been updated.
- MetaFox
Nintendulator 0.950 beta - Nintendulator, the NES emulator, has been updated.
- MetaFox
DSEmu v0.0.1c - DSEmu, the Gameboy Advance emulator, has been updated.
- MetaFox
Tuesday, December 14th 2004 - Last updated @ 20:28 EST
Chankast Ported to XBOX! - According to this post on our boards, Chankast (DC emu) has been ported to the XBOX, it's not being released yet, but it does seem to be functional. Freaky, huh :)
- atila
Sorry? - I just noticed that it has been nearly a week since the last post here at Retrogames. I'm very busy with other things (like starting my own urban dance club) and RG was put on the backburner, but we need to kickstart back in action. I get sickening amounts of spam on my mail addy here at RG, so filtering through 1,400 mails and getting 6 useful mails is not very motivating. I'll try to setup a new mail account where you can mail me, if necessary.
- atila
Women and PIN numbers don't mix - The Register reports that according to a survey, two out of three women use a single PIN number for all their (bank)cards. Or as they put it, "women are crap with PIN numbers" ;)
- atila
Wednesday, December 8th 2004 - Last updated @ 00:14 EST
Retrogaming Radio - Say good-bye to 2004, RetroGaming Radio style! A SUPER packed show! We give you Part 2 of the Bruce Davis (former CEO of IMAGIC) interview, a new interview with Billy Mitchell (and we announce the 'Billy Mitchell Is An Ass' contest), we revisit the Second Coming of the Video Game Crash, review the shareware game MAD CARS, reveal another easter egg on the RGR Year 5 DVD, a huge Bits & Bytes segment (featuring the EA lawsuit and we smack around STEAM for you) - and SO MUCH MORE! Special thanks to contributors Christian Egeler, Gerry Corcoran, Dana Eiler, and our own Gus Douboulis.
- chris
Xe - Xe is a multi system emulator for Linux that emulates many console and handheld video game systems of the past. It currently supports eleven different systems with more in progress.
- chris
Tuesday, December 7th 2004 - Last updated @ 14:16 EST
Raine 0.42.2 - Raine, the multiple arcade emulator, has been updated. Here's what's new:
- added the few missing cps2 games : armwaru, mshh, cybotus, and vhunt2r1.
- Fixed the annoying corrupted colors of the gui sometimes after loading specific games.
Thanks to Sune_S and Terry Bogard for the news.
- MetaFox
KEGS 0.91 - KEGS, an Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X, Win32, Linux, and Unix/X11 has been updated.
