Retro Games

Fantasy Consoles

• tiny8bit is a toolbox of 8-bit chip-emulators, helper code and complete embeddable system emulators in dependency-free C headers (a subset of C99 that compiles on gcc, clang and cl.exe).
• A list of fantasy consoles
• http://8bit-slicks.com/ a remake of the legendary 90s game for the Apple 2, Commodore 64, Atari 8bit, Atari Lynx, NES, and Oric 1/Atmos.

Pico

PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser called SPLORE.

More Links:

• Pico Hardware: https://github.com/Neotron-Compute/Neotron-Pico
• Pico Software: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

Games

• Cap Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=41332 and https://powersaurus.itch.io/cab-ride
• Poom: Mars base, Union Aerospace Corporation experiments opened a portal to Hell. You appear to be the last human, fight your way out! https://freds72.itch.io/poom

Tools

• Pico CAD: picoCAD is a program to build and texture lowpoly 3D models https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad
• z-machine interpreter https://christopherdrum.itch.io/statusline

Consoles

• https://old.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/

C64

C64 Mini

Links

• http://www.c64.com
• https://www.commodore-info.com

ZX Spectrum Next

Details on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next: https://www.specnext.com/

Play in Browser: https://rgb.yandex.ru/2020?lang=en#no-opened-game

Games

• Wonderland: https://gitlab.com/strandgames/brahman/-/tree/master/zxnext_magnetic/games/wonder
• Hibernated1: https://8bitgames.itch.io/hibernated1
• Xeno-brigade: https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/xeno-brigade/
• Marbles Squared: https://remysharp.itch.io/marbles2
• get out: https://dickydodds.itch.io/getout

Tools

AtariSID like engine for the ZX Next: https://github.com/em00k/NextSID

Programming challenges

• BASIC Challenges: http://www.retroprogramming.com/2017/05/zx-spectrum-basic-challenges.html?m=1

N64

• A web based N64 Emulator: https://www.neilb.net/n64wasm/

SNES

Maps: https://noclip.website/

Super Mario World Widescreen HD

To play "Super Mario World" on SNES in Widescreen (16:9) do the following:

• Get ROM "Super Mario World (USA)"
• Get Vitor's Super Mario World widescreen patch
• Run FLIPS and click "Apply patch".
• Pick Vitor's Super Mario World widescreen patch.
• Select the "Super Mario World (USA)" ROM and give the new ROM a name e.g. "smw-widescreen.sfc".
• Note that .bso and .smc must have the same name and are in the same folder!
• Run bsnes-hd and open the pathed ROM.
• Use settings menu to optimze image quality.

ROM Hacks

To futher mod the ROM you can use these tools:

• Lunar Magic: https://fusoya.eludevisibility.org/lm/program.html
• ROMPatcher: https://github.com/marcrobledo/RomPatcher.js/
• Asar: https://github.com/RPGHacker/asar
• SA1: https://github.com/VitorVilela7/SA1-Root/releases

Useful documents for understanding SA-1:

• SA-1 article at SnesLab: https://www.sneslab.net/wiki/SA-1
• SNES Dev. Book: https://www.romhacking.net/documents/226/
• SA-1 Registers: https://wiki.superfamicom.org/sa-1-registers
• SA-1 Doc: https://github.com/VitorVilela7/SNES-SA-1-doc/

Forums:

• smwcentral https://www.smwcentral.net/
• Mario Fan Games Galaxy: https://mfgg.net

Calculator

TI

https://ticalc.org/ https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2021/10/ti-calculator-innovation/

HP

https://www.hpcalc.org/