The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Content:

We’re joined by Amiga legend Dave Haynie, former Commodore chief engineer. We talk about the highs, the lows and the cancelled future plans for the Amiga.

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Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Android and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!

Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own source with carefully selected features and optimizations to maximize the browser’s speed*, stability and user experience, while maintaining compatibility with thousands of Firefox extensions many have come to love and rely on.

Changes:

* Repackage with more libs

GrafX2 is a drawing program dedicated to pixelart and low-color graphics. This program is dedicated to everybody who knows what a single pixel is. Its layout is not very different from the famous Deluxe Paint or Brilliance, so it will be quite easy to handle it if you know at least one of these programs. If you aren’t used to the art of drawing with up to 256 colors, it will be a little more difficult for you, but you should give it a try (or more, because most of the power of this program won’t show up on the first try). Then, you might eventually like to draw the oldskool way!

Changes:

– Changed website and sources link to the newer ones.
– Changed config folder location from .grafx2 to grafx2.
– Latest development version from Gitlab.
– Updated libs and sources.

Intrepid Izzy runs on a real Dreamcast now! 🙂

Breakers is a good, polished yet generic, mid-tier 90’s ‘beat-em up’ and represents something of a leap over the contemporary 16-bit fighters of the time. Huge sprites, great animated backgrounds (which feature characters who actually react to the fights going on in front of them), consistent frame rate, great music and effects makes Breakers a real treat for the senses. Breakers arrives on Dreamcast with a full feature set. Game modes, options and roster are all intact. This release is an Play-Asia exclusive release and can be now pre-ordered for 39.99 USD.

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, the Spanish 128K and the NTSC 48k. 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.
* In precision mode floating bus and interrupt timing are accuratly emulated.
* Frambuffer resolution at 640X480 or 320X240.
* 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 instant loading.
* Tape browser.
* Supports POKE files.
* Supports ZIP files.
* FTP client for loading games from internet repositories (e.g. WOS).
* Emulates up to 2 joysticks of types: Kempston, Cursor, Fuller , Sinclair1, Sinclair2 and QAOP.
* All the wiimote, nunchuck and classic controller buttons and joypads are fully configurable.
* IR Virtual keyboard support.
* Emulates Interface I, Interface II and Microdrive.
* Emulates ULAPlus.
* Emulates Currah microspeech.
* Based in a new, fully free, Z80 emulator (Z80Free).

Changes:

* Added WIIU PRO controller support
* Added Gamecube controller support
* Fast up and down menu scrolling with the second joystick
* Fixed bug in D-Right conf