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The C64 mini is going LARGE and feature packed! – Full sized version of the 80’s best-selling home computer (December 2019)

On June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

With the resurgance of retro gaming hardware enabling us to play old classics on big TV’s with lots of built in games such as the NES Mini, SNES Mini, Playstation 1 Classic, NEO GEO Mini,PC Engine Mini and the C64 Mini you’d be forgiven in thinking there wasn’t much else […]

MegaSD – World’s First Mega-CD/Sega CD FPGA Optical Disc Emulator Cartridge Announced!

On June 17, 2019June 18, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

We’ve certainly featured a good number of SD based devices over the years, from the SD2SNES, Everdrive N8 and even the Mega Everdrive to name but a few. But now a new contender is looking to dethrone the name SD, as Terraonion has announced the MegaSD; the World’s First Mega-CD/Sega CD FPGA Optical Disc Emulator, […]

External CD drive for the Amiga 1200? Take my money now!

On April 18, 2019April 19, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Another top quality announcement has hit our inbox, as moments ago we found out through the Commodore Amiga Facebook group, that a developer by the name of Marc G. Falconer is working on an external CD based device for the Commodore Amiga! Yes indeed with the unreleased CD1200 not making an […]

ZX VGA Joy – New hardware for your Speccy!

On April 17, 2019April 18, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

…you had me at ‘ZX’. If there’s one thing that makes me happy, it’s anything with word ‘Speccy’ in it. Failing that ‘ZX’ will give my heart a little flutter too. Adding ‘Joy’ to either will get me all squiffy and lead to an increased heartbeat, palm sweats and make […]

SPECTRANET – Ethernet based ZX Spectrum device, loads games from the Internet!

On March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 By Neil G

There are many ways to load ZX Spectrum games from real hardware, you can either attach a real tape deck, use your mobile phone OR devices such as the DIVMMC. But what if I told you, you could connect your ZX Spectrum to the internet and launch games. would you be […]

FlashFloppy – The BIG 1.0 release of a FREE and OPEN Gotek firmware!

On February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 By Neil G

The Commodore Amiga Facebook community is one of the best places on the internet whereby users around the world can come together and share anything and everything they want related to the Amiga and have fun doing so. But as is the case with this group, there’s always one such […]

RetroArch 1.7.6 – PlayStation2 port – now available!

On February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 By Neil G

Great news today for all you RetroArch users, as we’ve been contacted by Gaming Legends, that RetroArch 1.7.6 has been released! RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players and enables you to play classic games on a wide range of systems such as the NES and […]

New Amiga 1200 keycaps arrive from A1200.net and we’ve reviewed them

On January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 By Neil G

A1200.net has done exceedingly well via crowd funding and more especially for the Amiga community throughout these last few years, as not only did they smash a Kickstarter success for their Amiga 1200 case crowd funding campaign, but during 2016 they also pushed through a successful Kickstarter for the Amiga […]

Unique and historically important working Psygnosis Amiga 3000 goes up on Ebay

On December 17, 2018December 18, 2018 By Neil G

From prototypes to working hardware and games that have been lost and found, there’s always something we haven’t seen that hits the headlines much to the delight of the retro community. Well thanks to a heads up by Mike Clarke, he us told us he is selling an Amiga 3000 with […]

A1200.Net announces Amiga Keycap packing update

On December 3, 2018December 4, 2018 By Neil G

Indie Retro News is as busy as ever and now we are pleased to tell you as thanks to a heads up via A1200.net, that the Amiga 1200 keycap campaign is now at such a point, production of Batch#1 is now done and keycaps panels are currently being packed individually […]

KTRL CD32 – Third party gamepad for the Amiga / Amiga CD32 goes wireless

On October 22, 2018October 22, 2018 By Neil G

In the early part of this year we mentioned MickGyver’s third party Amiga CD32 controller the ‘ProCon KTRL CD32’ was coming as a replacement to the original controller with a SNES style design at a much much lower price to that of the "Amiga CD32 Competition Pro Joypad Controller “Honey Bee” […]

Kipper2K pre-orders for Cherry MX keyboards for the A500, A600 and A1200

On October 22, 2018October 22, 2018 By Neil G

It was only just last week we announced much to the delight of the retro community across the internet, that Kipper2K was going to be launching Cherry MX keyboards for the Amiga A500, A600 and A1200, as a modern keyboard setup that replaced an old unreliable keyboard, with a much […]

Kipper2K announces Cherry MX keyboards for the A500, A600 and A1200

On October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 By Neil G

New Amiga cases, new Amiga internal additions and Gotek installations how could anyone top that? Well how about the fact that as of this month Kipper2K has announced Cherry MX keyboards for the Amiga A500, A600 and A1200! These brand new keyboard additions to your overhauled Amiga are not just a set […]