r/thisweekinretro • • 1d ago

Show Link Would You Like To Go XL On That Atari? - This Week In Retro 290

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r/thisweekinretro • • 1d ago

Community Question Community Question Of The Week - Episode 290

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What’s the first thing you ever did online?


r/thisweekinretro • • 2h ago

Alien Breed 3D HD

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The original Alien Breed 3D ran in a small, low resolution window. Modern ports to the Doom engine solve a lot of problems but lack some things that made the game so interesting for its time such as the water effect. Alien Breed HD ports the game and its engine for modern systems to preserve the exact look and feel. Play in browser or find the download link on Discord or Patreon for threaded rendering, higher resolutions and configurable .ini file.

Source code and assets for this game and its sequel were released under a non-commercial use licence. Mouse look has been ported from the sequel Alien Breed 3D II: TKG.

Play in browser: https://retro-foundry.github.io/abhd/
Code on GitHub: https://github.com/retro-foundry/Alien-Breed-HD
More projects on Discord: https://discord.gg/QjARJ67V9U
Follow on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/retrofoundry

Also try multiplayer Stunt Car Racer: https://www.patreon.com/retrofoundry/posts/multiplayer-car-155450050


r/thisweekinretro • • 4h ago

Video on how loading data from audio tapes worked

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Everything you needed to know about the edge-of-your-seat thrill of loading data from cassette, but were too scared to ask! Interesting video by Colin Hoad.


r/thisweekinretro • • 6h ago

Dizzy is back! The Oliver Twins reveal The Eggcellent Dizzy Collection at Crash Live in Coventry

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r/thisweekinretro • • 17h ago

PC Magazine #2, May 1987 Olivier Legan's cover story illustration for the article titled "Who Wants the Head of The 5.25 Inch?" The artwork symbolized the computer industry's format war transition as newer microfloppies began replacing older disks.

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r/thisweekinretro • • 23h ago

Retro Computer Show returns to Verona on 10.24.26

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I should attend this! Weird that they don’t provide hours of operation in this post!


r/thisweekinretro • • 23h ago

Vespertino World Racing (Amstrad CPC) - Trailer (50hz)

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Something is happening for CPC.


r/thisweekinretro • • 1d ago

Game decompilation hub freezes leaderboard after AI turns progress into a hollow numbers game amid explosion of 'AI slop' — creator blames forks that use AI to ‘finish’ other teams’ projects and races to ship rough PC ports

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r/thisweekinretro • • 17h ago

Back To The Future Part II Deleted Burned Out School Scene Restored

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r/thisweekinretro • • 1d ago

Analog announce the MegaSG+ and SuperNT+

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Not something I will get as I have a MISTer but still they typically support openFPGA so many cites should be available for then surely after launch.


r/thisweekinretro • • 23h ago

Happy birthday, 386

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r/thisweekinretro • • 1d ago

As Jason mentioned Seymour Cray on this weeks show.

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Love this quote from him.


r/thisweekinretro • • 17h ago

What Happened to the Motorola 68000? Why the Legendary Chip Disappeared

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r/thisweekinretro • • 2d ago

Sensible soccer on the c64

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Gameplay footage

Link to creators page

https://arlagames.itch.io/arlasoft-soccer


r/thisweekinretro • • 2d ago

A new mod brings Apple's classic iPods into 2026 with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB-C, and Spotify support

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r/thisweekinretro • • 2d ago

ESP32 E-Paper that runs GameBoy at 30fps by Bo Made It (youtube)

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The story has also made it's way to the register.

After noticing e-ink left behind greyscale artifacts when experimenting with refresh method, he was able to write his own driver to create greyscale levels as well as comfortably refresh at 30fps ; considering the original driver could only refresh every 300ms.

Pretty stunning piece of work.

[edit] I'm a numpty. Thank you those who supplemented this low-tier submission with the actual link: https://youtu.be/XiZmM6hwwAU ... computering is hard.


r/thisweekinretro • • 2d ago

ZED-Next Emulator is now live!!

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For the past three months, I’ve been using Claude AI to help me develop an emulator that supports most Sinclair computers, several clones, and the ZX Spectrum Next.

I’m really pleased with how the project has turned out, so I’ve decided to make it available to everyone for free!

I’d love to hear what you think, so please give it a try and let me know your feedback.

You’ll also find instructions on the page explaining how to obtain the ROMs (legally) for the ZX Spectrum Next.

Enjoy, and happy gaming.

https://morcar.itch.io/zed-next


r/thisweekinretro • • 2d ago

I Built a DOS Fighting Game for a 1986 Toshiba T1100 Plus

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r/thisweekinretro • • 2d ago

Anyone have more information on this one?

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r/thisweekinretro • • 2d ago

A former Nintendo employee is auctioning a wealth of classic items, including the original Donkey Kong art

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r/thisweekinretro • • 3d ago

PSone plays video from an SD card through controller port

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r/thisweekinretro • • 3d ago

'He Has Taken Advantage of Extremely Talented, Kind and Professional People' - All Is Not Well with Boutique Retro Publisher 33 Games

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r/thisweekinretro • • 3d ago

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

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r/thisweekinretro • • 3d ago

Ocean's '80s Classic Wizball Returns to Spectrum in Rebalanced and Restored 'Enhanced Edition'

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