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    8BitDo, makers of retro-themed gaming goods, have unveiled their latest nostalgia-indulging mechanical PC keyboard — and fair warning: it’s way nerdier than their NES-inspired one. The new edition is sure to press all the right buttons for geeks of a certain age as it pays visual homage to one of the most iconic home computers of all time. Yes, the indomitable Commodore 64 — a ‘bread-bin’-sized home computer packed into a keyboard. The 8-bit machine launched in 1982 and was the first affordable and accessible computer for the masses. An immediate hit, the Commodore 64 went on to sell an […]

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    8BitDo’s New Mechanical Keyboard is the Geekiest Yet
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      Retour de la mini console portable rétrogaming Miyoo Mini+ à son meilleur prix

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 26 January - 13:45

    Miyoo

    La fameuse console portable rétrogaming Miyoo Mini+ est très populaire parmi les fans de jeux rétro, et elle est en promotion chez Geekbuying pour les soldes !
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      Alerte nostalgie : Atari ressuscite un des premiers PC gaming au monde

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 12 January - 14:30

    Atari 400 Mini

    Qui se souvient de l'Atari 400 ? Il revient officiellement en version mini pour le plus grand bonheur
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      Flurry of firmware updates makes Analogue Pocket an even better retro handheld

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 5 January - 19:43 · 1 minute

    An Analogue Pocket running <em>Super Mario World</em> on an openFPGA core with the scanline filter enabled.

    Enlarge / An Analogue Pocket running Super Mario World on an openFPGA core with the scanline filter enabled. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

    We've got a soft spot for the Analogue Pocket , the premium portable game console that melds 2020s technology with the design of the original Game Boy. Since its release, Analogue has added some new capabilities via firmware updates, most notably when it added support for emulating more consoles via its OpenFPGA platform in the summer of 2022 . This allows the FPGA chip inside of the pocket to emulate the hardware of other systems, in addition to the portable systems the Pocket supports natively.

    But aside from finalizing and releasing that 1.1 firmware, 2023 was mostly quiet for Pocket firmware updates. That changed in December when the company released not one but two major firmware upgrades for the Pocket that slipped under our radar during the holidays. These updates delivered a combination of fixes and long-promised features to the handheld, which Analogue has been re-releasing in different color palettes now that the original versions are more consistently in stock.

    The most significant update for OpenFPGA fans is the ability to use display filters with third-party FPGA cores. Part of the appeal of the Pocket is its 1,600×1,440 screen, which is sharp enough to perfectly re-create the huge chunky pixels of the original Game Boy screens. By default, most FPGA cores now get access to a similarly high-quality CRT screen filter named after the Sony Trinitron TV , adding a touch of retro-blurriness to the sharp edges of 8- and 16-bit games. I've seen lots of bad, unconvincing scanline filters in retro game re-releases, and this isn't one of them.

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      Miyoo Mini+ : cette mini console portable rétrogaming est à un prix de dingue (-50%)

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 16 November - 16:15

    Miyoo

    La console portable rétrogaming Miyoo Mini+ est très populaire parmi les fans de jeux rétro, et elle est en promotion chez Aliexpress à l'occasion du Single Day !

    Miyoo Mini+ : cette mini console portable rétrogaming est à un prix de dingue (-50%)

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      Analogue’s supercharged modern-day Game Boy now glows in the dark

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 28 August, 2023 - 18:13 · 1 minute

    The Analogue Editions: Pocket Glow console is $30 more expensive than a regular Pocket, and it glows in the dark.

    Enlarge / The Analogue Editions: Pocket Glow console is $30 more expensive than a regular Pocket, and it glows in the dark. (credit: Analogue)

    If you've been on the fence about the Analogue Pocket , the modernized FPGA-powered Game Boy clone that will play all of your old cartridges, maybe the company's newest limited-edition release will push you over the edge. Analogue is releasing a glow-in-the-dark version of the Pocket, with all the same features as the original but a new green luminescent casing that recalls every cheap plastic glow-in-the-dark toy I ever had.

    This "Pocket Glow" costs $249.99, $30 more than the regular white and black Pocket consoles, and will be available in "highly limited quantities." It will go on sale on September 1 at 8 am Pacific , and when it's gone, it's gone. The console will ship on September 5, so at least glow-in-the-dark Pocket preorderers won't need to wait as long as the first few waves of people who ordered the console. Analogue says the Pocket Glow can glow for up to eight hours when the casing has been fully charged by a bulb, the Sun, or some other external source.

    The Pocket Glow is being released under an "Analogue Editions" umbrella, implying that other limited-edition console releases will follow at some point in the future. As the Pocket itself emulates Nintendo's handhelds, this emulates Nintendo's hardware release strategy, where special limited-edition consoles are released periodically to re-sell hardware to superfans who already have the standard editions (as the owner of a Poké ball-themed Nintendo 2DS XL , I will admit that I am not immune).

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      Atari launches replica 2600 console to go with all its replica 2600 cartridges

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 22 August, 2023 - 21:02

    If you read about Atari issuing a new cartridge of a new Atari 2600 game and your first thought was, "What am I supposed to play this on?" there's an answer for you. Today, the company announced the Atari 2600+ , a $130 retro console with a cartridge slot that can accept vintage and modern Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges, plus a $25 CX40+ joystick and $40 CX30+ paddle controller bundle that appear to more-or-less faithfully re-create the originals.

    All items are currently available for pre-order and will ship in November 2023. The console includes a 10-in-1 game cartridge with Adventure , Combat , Missile Command , Haunted House , Yars' Revenge , and a few other 2600 games.

    The Atari 2600+ takes its design cues from the early-1980s revision of the original console, with fake wood grain on the front and four control switches. But Atari says the console is only 80 percent as large as the original console, "making it easier to fit into modern living spaces." The console also has an HDMI output and uses USB-C for power.

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      A company called Atari is releasing a brand-new 2600 cartridge this year

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 13 June, 2023 - 18:25 · 1 minute

    A render of the <em>Mr. Run and Jump</em> Atari cartridge.

    Enlarge / A render of the Mr. Run and Jump Atari cartridge. (credit: Atari)

    The company that currently owns the Atari name and trademarks has decided to give owners of the old Atari Video Computer System (aka the Atari 2600) something new to do. Mr. Run and Jump is a new Atari-published platformer that is coming to vintage Atari consoles in cartridge form, complete with a box and instruction manual. Preorders for the cartridge begin on July 31 for $59.99.

    The version of Mr. Run and Jump coming to the 2600 is a primitive version of a much different-looking game with the same name that's coming to PCs and all major game consoles on July 25. We've got to hand it to Atari here—as a PR gambit for a new game, porting a rough version of your game to a 46-year-old game console and then giving it a physical release complete with box and manual is pretty good.

    Atari is billing this release as "the first 2600 cartridge launch for a new Atari title since 1990," though there have also been some limited-run cartridge releases for games like 2005's Yars' Return . There were also a few new 2600-inspired games and remakes, including Vctr Sctr , in Atari's 50th-anniversary collection, which also got a physical release on modern consoles.

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      GoldenEye can’t distract from Switch retro games’ most annoying pitfall

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 27 January, 2023 - 18:50

    Nintendo's promotional key art for the launch of <em>GoldenEye 007</em> on Switch.

    Enlarge / Nintendo's promotional key art for the launch of GoldenEye 007 on Switch. (credit: Nintendo )

    Today marks the long-awaited rerelease of the Nintendo 64 classic GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo Switch. As was announced before the launch, the game supports widescreen. When I learned that, my first thought wasn't "Oh, nice!" Rather, it was "OK, but what about the rest of the library?"

    To be clear, there's no easy way to make old 4:3 games fill up a modern 16:9 aspect ratio, and that's not something I would recommend in this case. But the solution used by the rest of the library of old games running within the Nintendo Switch Online service—enclosing every game in horribly distracting and potentially destructive gray borders—is, well, awful.

    So as Nintendo finally adds one of the most beloved Nintendo 64 games to Switch Online, allow me a moment to vent some frustration on behalf of many players.

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