This fully featured BBC Micro Emulator in your Browser called VirtualBeeb is incredible!

Checking our Facebook feeds today we recently had a heads up from our good friend Ethan Knight of a new update that everyone in the BBC Micro community is sure to be excited over. Yes indeed if you had a BBC Micro back in the 1980's, then make sure to check out the 3D BBC Micro Simulator of VirtualBeeb! As in the words of our good friend Ethan "I wish to God Mr Carless or Mr Gilchrist could have seen this. Everything about it just smacked me right back to computer class 🥰 A fully emulated BBC Micro, in your browser, capable of doing everything a Model B could do! You can even write code on it or connect to Telnet \o/"

This handheld printed C64 case called the "HX-64" aka the "CX-64" looks super cute!

We have featured many different types of retro cases and hardware throughout the years, from products such as the UCassette, The Future Was 8bit's SD2IEC, the Ultimate, Amiga/C64 mini's, to the C64P; a C64DTV based laptop. Well here we are with this rather interesting case for the C64 community that could turn into something special, it's the 'HX-64' aka the "CX-64"; A fully printed handheld by Jeffrey McKelvy that many are hoping will be turned into a working C64 handheld based device with a raspberry pi. To coincide with this news, here's the story from Jeffrey McKelvy which was originally posted via Facebook.

Low cost Vampire Raptor 1200 accelerator is on the way and we are excited!

Chances are if you have an Amiga 500, you'll be looking out for the PiStorm, an adapter board intended to be paired with a Raspberry Pi Model 3A which offers additional features, like fast graphics acceleration, SCSI disk emulation, and the ability to run whatever Kickstart ROM you so desire. But for those of you with an Amiga 1200, you'll need to look elsewhere for your acceleration power house, but rather than the long wait times and high cost of a Vampire accelerator, then the Vampire Raptor 1200 Accelerator might just the piece of hardware your Amiga 1200 thanks you for (and so does your wallet)

A-PI 400 - A printed Amiga case for the Raspberry Pi 400?

Top case is resting on a box! ( First Print Prototype )

Over the years there's certainly been a surge in home made cases and internal changes to bring the Raspberry Pi into an almost seamless look giving us the impression we are playing on an old console. This all fused together with so many games through Pi Retro Emulation that no original console or games are needed. I mean seriously, if you didn't want a NES or SNES mini, you could buy a tiny NES case, bang a Raspberry Pi inside, add a few extra parts, install someone software, thousands of roms and you have your own emulation station running through a HDMI TV!

MB03+ Ultimate – The ultimate expansion for your ZX Spectrum

From the Czech Republic comes a new super-expansion for all ZX Spectrum models. It is the brainchild of Jan Kucera. Introducing his hobby project: MB03+ Ultimate.

Introduction

Jan's history with the ZX Spectrum began in a whole ‘nother era, during the Cold War when the Czech Republic was Czechoslovakia. History aside, technology innovation thrived in the nation. Didaktik produced some of the most notable Sinclair ZX Spectrum clones, many that are collectible and still desired today. In 1986 Jan saw his first Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K with rubber keys. Soon after He got his own Didaktik Gama (Czech, English). Kucera then upgraded to the grey ZX Spectrum +2 - which he still uses to this day!

ZX-VGA-JOY - A fabulous speccy hardware review by dakidski!

Away from all the gaming reviews and articles, today I shall be looking at with an exclusive review of a new piece of hardware for our retro gaming systems called the ZX-VGA-JOY; a new peripheral for all ZX Spectrums, Sinclair and Amstrads alike which allows the user to connect any kind of VGA monitors, Kempston joystick and computer reset, across a multitude of screen modes and much much more!

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

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 to get excited by the end of this year. Well The C64 crew have something to shout about and in a pretty big way, as they have just announced the full-sized version of ‘THEC64’, will be coming December 2019!

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

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, as the ultimate accessory for Genesis/Mega Drive. Complete FPGA recreation of the entire Mega-CD/Sega CD hardware into a plug and play Cartridge!

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

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 appearance in our homes and hacking the internal Amiga not to everyones liking. Marc G. Falconer aims to please with his external CD Drive through IDE and custom based case.

ZX VGA Joy - New hardware for your Speccy!

...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 my eyes all big. (Time to calm yourself down, Paul!) Ok, deep breaths... here we go.

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

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 interested? Well if you are, that's exactly what this article is about, as thanks to Ben Versteeg of  bytedelight and using Dylan Smith's 'Spectranet' with a valid MAC address, has been able to play games directly from the internet and using real ZX Spectrum hardware.

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

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 member who stands head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to helpful advice or software to push the Amiga community forward. And so this week Keir Fraser has announced the first BIG 1.0 release update of his FREE and OPEN Gotek firmware, which will not only read and write ADF and HFE images, but as of today no manual disk swapping at all with a new auto swap feature!

RetroArch 1.7.6 – PlayStation2 port – now available!

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 SNES mini with features such as shaders, netplay, rewinding, next-frame response times, and more!

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

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 Keycap campaign too, which delighted many of us wishing for a full Amiga makeover. Now I'm sure you remember Indie Retro News doing a big review of the black Amiga case, well you'll be happy to know as of right now we have for you an exclusive review of the keycaps as well!

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

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 quite a bit of history. This Amiga 3000 as noted on the Ebay page, is a one of a kind Amiga as used by various artists at Psygnosis and sold by Mike,who also told us he worked at Psygnosis from 1992 to 1999 doing audio and this was one of a number of machines he rescued that had been placed in a corridor ready to be thrown out.

A1200.Net announces Amiga Keycap packing update

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 ready for freight delivery. Yes indeed after all this time many Amiga owner across the globe who's supported the campaign will finally be able to complete their new case kit with a full set of Amiga compatible keycaps.

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

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” ". Fast forward beyond that however with sales complete, the designer is looking to take the KTRL CD32 to the next stage with wireless, but does state it is still at a work in progress stage.

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

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 more reliable, responsive keyboard which can be easily fixed and parts are abundant. Well you'll be pleased to know as of today you can now pre-order these keyboards with a full set of keycaps!

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

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 of switches, but are designed as a total drop in keyboard replacement that is sure excite anyone who has an Amiga!

A1200.Net Amiga 1200 Keycaps mass production launch within 15 days!

Indie Retro News is back from its weekend break and 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 mass production will launch within 15 days! Yes indeed after all this time every Amiga owner across the globe who's supported the campaign will finally be able to complete their new case kit, as according A1200.net, Phil is going to the factory to oversee mass production launch within 15 days and Mass production continues from Mid September. To coincide with this news a new video has been shown giving us a glimpse of the new samples.