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Retroaction is an interactive magazine featuring old and new games on retro platforms like the Amstrad CPC, Sinclair, Commodore, DOS, Arcade, Atari, Sega, Nintendo, NEC, MSX, Acorn, Apple, and more.

Content:

Building Classics
We take a look at one of the most successful game engines ever, including the many games developed for it.

The Retr0brite Project
Are your old computers and consoles looking “not-so-mellow yellow”? Then read our Retr0brite feature where we explain how to deal with this problem.

Retromags
Want to re-live old retrogaming nostalgia or discover old publications that you didn’t read first time around? Then join us as we bring details of some of the most popular magazines of olde.

Twilight of the Spectrum
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum didn’t really disappear in the early 1990s. As we explain, in this first part of a huge Spectrum retrospective, Europe enjoyed many years of rubber-keyed gaming…

MAME: Emulator Profile
Often referred to as the best arcade emulator and most recognisable names in the emulation world. We tell you why, while examining the history, the software, and some of the better known games.

Computer Warrior, Part 2
Memoirs of the Computer Warrior comic strip, from the 1980s Eagle comic, where gamers discover how to play computer games within the computer’s realm.

Interviews:
Ken Silverman
We talked to Ken Silverman, the creator of the Build engine, about the development of said engine and the games that have appeared on it.

Simon Ullyatt
We managed to corner indie publisher Simon Ullyatt, and chat with him about Cronosoft, new games on old machines, bedroom coding and obscure 8-bit micros.

Mort
The retro magazine scanner king gives us a moment to speak about his scans, the DVDs, his current projects, and future plans.

Regulars:
Retroscene
The latest happenings in the world of retrogaming.

Retro Respect: Hexen
We’ve all missed a classic during our time (I know I have). This is where we pay respects to the forgotten classics, the misunderstood, and the underdogs.

GamesMaster Lookback, episode 2
Lookback at an episode of the classic GamesMaster television show. The challenges, the games, the celebrities, the journalist commentators, and Dominik.

Raiders of the Lost Arcades: X-Men: Children of the Atom
Unfortunately, the arcade is becoming extinct as a gaming platform, so we take a trek back through time to relive some of the arcades’ greatest and underrated games.

Retro Respect: Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
SSI’s Tactical RPG gets the Retro Respect treatment.

Killer App: Killer Instinct Gold
These are the games that are so outstanding that you would buy the system just to play that game. The essential games that every retro gamer should play.

How to Cause a Complete Controversy: Night Trap
Forget the GTAs and Manhunts of the new generation of consoles; games were causing controversy from as far back as the 8-bit days. Here we look at the controversy that surrounded these games.

Retro Respect: Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa
We pay respect to one of the Famicom’s best Disk System game.

The Weird and Wonderful World of Retrogaming: Traffic
There have been some truly strange games, demos, and cover disks released in the heyday of retrogaming. This is where we dig up some of these weird and daft creations.

Reviews:
Rock Boshers (windows)
BeTiled! (Amstrad CPC)
Legion of the Damned (C64)
Phantomas Tales #1: Marsport (Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum)
K.O. Cruiser (Atari 2600)
W*H*B (ZX Spectrum)
Star Sabre 128K (Amstrad CPC)
Captain S (windows)
Deathchase (Dragon 32, Tandy CoCo)
Frogger (ZX Spectrum)
Nanako Descends to Hell (Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum)
I Need Speed (ZX Spectrum, MSX)
Giddy 3 (Windows)
Danger Tower (MSX)
Sort’em (Amstrad CPC)
Banger Management (ZX Spectrum)
Deep Dungeon (MSX)
Horace Goes Skiing (Windows)
Eternal Light (Amstrad CPC)
Supaplex (ZX Spectrum)
SEUD (ZX Spectrum)

Thanks to http://www.superlevel.de/ for the news.

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WiFi discovery tool (like Hitchhiker or WiFi companion).

Changes:

Fixed connection to WPA/WPA2 networks
Hidden networks handling has been improved
Fixed bugs in key entry control
WEP keys between 5 and 13 chars are now allowed
More reliable method to detect IP address assignment
Numerous UI improvements

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Italian Parking by ElectroKidd is a 3D puzzle game for Wii. You need to guide your car out of a stucked place in as few moves as possible.

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Bubble Train is a action puzzle game which is a clone of a really old arcade game. The game is a spin off of the Pop & Drop or Frozen Bubble type game.

Bubble Train as the name suggests is a train of bubbles travelling along a track where the last carriage is the driving force instead of the front one. The bubbles come streaming along the track trying to reach the end of the line. You are equipped with a bubble firing cannon, where you fire bubbles into the trains. When there are 3 or more carriages of the same colour they explode and the train shrinks. So you must blow up all of the carriages in all of the trains before any train reaches the end of its track.

This new release tries to fix sound issues reported within the initial version from yesterday.

Thanks to Flavor, the author himself, for the news!

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Touhou DS by Spuzkaizer is a Shoot Em Up game for Nintendo DS.

Changes:

– Game crashed after a certain number of spellcards.
– Decreased memory usage and memory fragmentation
– References to spellbooks cache their results for better performance.

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news!

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The deadline for this years PDRoms coding competition is approaching! You are still having full nine days, which might be enough to do something little and get a chance of one of the nice prizes.

Here is the brief data:

Topic: Create a logic/puzzle game
Competition running time: Thursday, 02 April 2009 to Sunday, 31st May 2009
Deadline: Sunday, 31th May 2009 @ 23:59, in YOUR timezone!
Systems allowed: Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Coleco Vision, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Game Gear, IntelliVision, Master System, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo Entertainment System, Odyssey2, Wonderswan, Wonderswan Color, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis/Megadrive, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo 64, PC Engine, Sega 32x, Sega CD and Vectrex.
Prizes to win: A WIZ console, 2 PSP Games, 1 Genesis Game, 5 R4 Cards, 10 Acekards and 150 US$ in cash

Prizes are sponsored by: http://shop.gp2x.de – http://www.flashlinker-shop.com – http://www.superfighter.com – http://www.gamekool.com – http://www.slanina.pl – ph0x

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Gecko OS (formerly Gecko Region Free) by Nuke lets you load Wii games from other regions.

Changes:

The “No Hooks” option should work correctly now
Displayed code line limit was one line greater than the actual limit, that is now fixed
Displayed channel names are more complete
Improved Gamecube disc detection
Games that use IOS 36 (for example, Super Smash Bros. Brawl) no longer require a second disc spin-up when loading

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

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Hex is a 2 player board game invented by Piet Hein and John Nash. For the rules of Hex see Wikipedia -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(board_game)

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What you have to do is get the whole screen one color. Red or blue, it doesn’t matter. However, its not as easy as it sounds, when you select a tile, all tiles around flip to the other color as well as the selected.

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LuaPlayer Euphoria is another enhanced LuaPlayer for PSP. Please check the release thread for more information.

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