by William Schwartz | Aug 31, 2025 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform, Retro Computing
On August 31st, Defense Force released a new version of Encounter HD, version 1.2.3 alongside a new demo. The project saw its initial release in December of last year. But the story of Encounter itself goes back quite a bit farther than that. The graphic...
by William Schwartz | Aug 21, 2025 | 2020s, Console/Handheld
While the ModRetro Chromatic is in general a self-contained device, the Cart Clinic software is a means by which the firmware can be updated. This includes for ModRetro games themselves, and ModRetro recently released a new proof of concept of the idea with the...
by William Schwartz | Aug 15, 2025 | 1980s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Reviews
Recently I set up a Nintendo Entertainment System in my home. I’m just slightly too young to have any personal nostalgia for the NES (I was more in the SNES/N64 cohort), but my girlfriend is a different story. Despite being excited about having an NES in...
by William Schwartz | Aug 6, 2025 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Reviews
In the realm of FPGA Game Boys, the Chromatic has some obvious disadvantages compared to its main competitor, the Analogue Pocket. Where the Analogue Pocket has Game Boy Advance cartridge support, adapters for other cartridges, as well as SD card support that...
by William Schwartz | Aug 1, 2025 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie, Reviews
The Game Boy Studio program by Chris Maltby has inspired a whole new generation homebrew Game Boy developers. David Marin is one of them, having published Pokettohiro! last year through Broke Studios. It’s now available for download on the David...