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

Content:

We chat to the team behind the UK’s biggest retro computing and gaming museum, the Centre For Computing History in Cambridge.

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bayleef updated Lemmings 3DS for the Nintendo 3DS, which is a clone of Lemmings for DOS. Fill the subfolders of /lemmings folder with data from DOS Lemmings (see README.txt files in these subfolders). These files are not included in the archive since they are protected by copyright law. In order to run the software, at least one subfolder must be filled. You may fill any combination of subfolders, depending on the Lemmings games you own.

Changes:

* Completed ratings are marked with an asterisk in 1p level selection menu
* Play a custom sound when lemming falls out of the level
* Bugfixes

Meritous is an action-adventure dungeon crawl game. It’s homepage can be found here: http://asceai.net/meritous/. Ported to Nintendo 3DS by nop90.

Changes:

– Fixed dialogues text shown entering in boss rooms

nop90 has been testing his libSDL port against the NeoPop SDL source code. You can now enjoy Neo Geo Pocket and Neo Geo Pocket Color games on your Nintendo 3DS.

Release notes:

* Preview version

nop90 does a great service to the Nintendo 3DS community by releasing a greatly improved port of libSDL. This should raise the library of Nintendo 3DS homebrew games really fast!

Changes:

– Fixed bottom screen zoom/positioning in dual screen mode
– Changed code to maintain screen aspect ratio using SDL_FITWIDTH or SDL_FITHEIGHT custom video flags
– Aligned mouse movement area to bottom screen visible part in dual screen mode

Depth Gun is a Ludum Dare 38 game. Theme “A small Word”.

Retro Sumus released another teaser video of Xenocider.

Did you yet spot Eskimo Bob by Tomas Guinan on Kickstarter? Not, well… it’s about time! Only nine days left.

Fivethousandsevenhundredten And One Cloud by 5711 for PICO-8. Released at Outline 2017.

Here is Serious Sam: Second Encounter (without data). You’ll need to copy the data from the original game (Steam, GoG or original CD version). Copy all the “.gro” files and all folders (but not the bin one) in apddata/serioussam1 to play. The game use gl4es, and use the recently open sourced Serious Engine 1. Brought to Pandora by ptitSeb.