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This week in retro, minus the hype.
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Doom for the Commodore 64 is out, free, and does its lighting with dithered text
Kweepa released DOOM64 on itch.io on 30 September. It’s free, it’s the final version, and it runs on…
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Half-Life’s cancelled Dreamcast port has been decompiled, and its online mode is switched back on
Sierra cancelled the Dreamcast version of Half-Life in June 2001, citing ‘changing market conditions’. Twenty-five years later, a…
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Sega is putting Sonic’s unseen development documents on display in Tokyo from 9 October
From 9 October to 1 November 2026, Ikebukuro PARCO in Tokyo will hold the paperwork behind Sonic the…
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Mercury is a Sega Saturn-styled MiSTer kit, and pre-orders are open at €229.99
A white, Saturn-styled box with no FPGA board in it, for €229.99. That’s Mercury, from d3fmod design, the…
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A new ZX Spectrum book cleared its Kickstarter goal before day one was out
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder asked Kickstarter for £30,000 when it went live on 1 October. By the next day…
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A $22 adapter solves the “modern box, old CRT” problem nobody quite fixed before
Most of the retro video conversion market solves one direction of a problem: getting an ageing console’s composite…