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  1. Retro Computer Festival this weekend at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History

    Retro Computer Festival this weekend at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History

    The Centre for Computing History are holding their 2025 Retro Computer Festival this weekend (15th and 16th November 2025) - and this time it's the "Gaming Edition" You'll be able to see micros and consoles from the 70s, 80s and 90s running the very best of vintage and modern games, as well as...
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  2. Our first look at Game Streaming Service: Antstream

    Our first look at Game Streaming Service: Antstream

    We first heard about Antstream last year, and it sounded right up our street! Anstream is pretty much “Netflix for retro games”, and offers you the chance to stream and play a whole bunch of retro-games on Windows, Mac, Linux and consoles for a monthly subscription (£9.99 per month, or you can...
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  3. Johnny Blanchard launches Jurl on ZX Spectrum

    Johnny Blanchard launches Jurl on ZX Spectrum

    Johnny Blanchard has launched a version of his arcade game Jurl on the ZX Spectrum. The game, described as a mix of PAC-Man and Asteroids, began life on the Atari 2600, and Blanchard has since ported the game to the Master System, Game Boy, PC Engine, and modern platforms. You can download...
  4. New match-three game for the Speccy: Clone Zoo ZX

    New match-three game for the Speccy: Clone Zoo ZX

    PuttyCAD have ported the 2012 match-three Android game, Clone Zoo to the ZX Spectrum. “In order to make sure our beloved animals never go extinct Professor Plumbob came up with a rapid cloning system. Unfortunately the Zooplicator 9000 he invented has been having a few teething problems and he...
  5. Video: Retro Indie Games Round-Up May 2023

    Video: Retro Indie Games Round-Up May 2023

    Games Featured: 81-Tris (ZX81) Zero Wing II (C64) Yars' Revenge (INTV) Ringo (ZX Spectrum) Where is it? (Master System) Hitbox (Pico-8) Speccy Soccer (ZX Spectrum) Mega Slow Mole (Mega Drive) The Pact (GBC) Cursed Tomb (C64) Cyberpunks 2 (Amiga) Monaco Master (Master System) Shera's Dance...
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  6. Memotech MTX, Microbee and Sord M5 get some homebrew-love with puzzle game Vexed

    Memotech MTX, Microbee and Sord M5 get some homebrew-love with puzzle game Vexed

    It's not often you get homebrew for the Memotech MTX or the Microbee. Nor the Sord M5 or SpectraVision SV 318. Well now a new puzzle game reaches some normally un-loved platforms, as well as some more common ones too. Vexed is a puzzle game where you must match the blocks to remove them from...
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  7. Ashtrays, Bread bins and Toastracks: A guide to retro computing slang

    Feature Ashtrays, Bread bins and Toastracks: A guide to retro computing slang

    Like most hobbies, Retro Computing comes with its own set of slang, and fan-created nicknames for products. Sometimes they are affectionate, sometimes derogatory – but one things for sure, if you’re new to the hobby you will have no idea what people are talking about! This document is a...
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  8. Mastertronic Cassette Colour Codes

    Mastertronic Cassette Colour Codes

    As you might guess from the spelling of colour in the title, I’m from the UK. And in the UK in the eighties only the rich kids had microcomputers with disk drives. The rest of us made-do with cassette tapes. And if you collected computer cassette tapes then there is no way you wouldn’t have had...
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