theloon decided to work on a horizontal scrolling game what is currently turning out to be a “The Great Giana Sisters” inspired platformer named The Sensational Santuci Sisters. The development is still in progress, so expect improvements in the near future.
Retrogaming Times Monthly #104 is available. RTM is a retro magazine, sometimes with focus on the homebrew scene.
Content of this issue:
ATTRACT MODE
* Press Fire To Begin
* Retrogaming News
THE RETROWORKS
* Caught On Film – Wreck-It Ralph
* The Pixelated Mage – Top 10 Of 2012
* Apple II Incider – Christmas Gifts For The Apple II Fan
* CoCoLicious! – The CoCo’s 3rd Time Is A Charm (Part 1)
* The Way Things Were – January 1983
THE GAME REVIEW H.Q.
* MAME Reviews – Astro Blaster
* NES’cade – Cabal
* Beyond The Plastic – Tom & Jerry (NES)
* The Retro Junkie – NHL ’94
ZXDS is an emulator of Sinclair ZX Spectrum for Nintendo DS, written by Patrik Rak. It is steadily reaching a mature stage of development, and it already has some noteworthy features, like accurate emulation of Spectrum 48k, 128k and Pentagon models (including sound), or support for TAP/TZX/PZX tape files, TRD/SCL disk files and RZX playback files.
Changes:
* Spectrum +2A/+3 snapshots are not rejected right away anymore. Instead, they are executed in 128K mode with extended paging enabled. This makes some +2A/+3 RZXs and exclusive software work quite fine.
* Added a bit of color coding to the controls screen.
Subtera Puzlo by EgoTrip is a homebrew puzzle game for the Nintendo DS console. The object of the game is to escape each screen, collecting the coins, and the key that will unlock the exit. There is an initial time limit of 30 seconds. Avoid the guardians and traps, colliding with these will result in a failure.
FBZX is a ZX Spectrum emulator for FrameBuffer written by Sergio Costasand ported as FBZX Wii to Wii by Oibaf.
Main features:
* Emulates accurately the Original 48Kspectrum (both issue 2 and issue 3), the classic 128K, the Amstrad Plus 2, the Amstrad Plus 2A and the Spanish 128K. This includes screen, keyboard and sound (both speaker and AY-3-8912 chip).
* Screen emulation is extremely accurate, so it can emulate border effects and even attribute effects.
* Supports Z80 snapshots, both loading and saving, and loading .SNA snapshots.
* Supports TAP (both read and write) and TZX (only read) tape files, supporting normal speed loading and fast speed loading.
* Emulates up to 2 joysticks of types: kempston, cursor and sinclair1 and sinclair2.
* All the wiimote, nunchuck and classic controller buttons and joypads are fully configurable.
* Virtual keyboard support.
* Emulates the Interface I and Microdrive.
* Emulates the ULAPlus
* Based in a new, fully free, Z80 emulator (Z80Free).
Changes:
* Added auto turbo mode
* Added graphical virtual keyboard using wii pointer
* Added B button as escape
* Fixed bug in file list management