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Super Mario Bros. CD Is Still in Development, FamicomCD Confirms

Super Mario Bros. CD is still in development, FamicomCD has confirmed. The team behind the fan-made Super Mario World ROM hack thanked fans for their continued support and promised more news when the time is right, without announcing a release date.

Beige CRT monitor showing a Win95GPT chat window, Calculator and clock on a Windows 95-style desktop, beside a dial-up modem.

Win95GPT Gives Modern AI a Windows 95 Makeover—Dial-Up Noises Included

Win95GPT gives modern AI a Windows 95 makeover, complete with dial-up sounds, classic desktop tools and CRT effects. Using your own OpenAI API key, it pairs real-time AI conversations with the sights and sounds of 1990s computing—no actual dial-up connection required.

Glowing game scenes flow through an executable-conversion panel towards a desktop gaming PC displaying a mountain landscape.

AnyPS5 aims to bring PS5 games to PC through native executable conversion

AnyPS5 aims to bring PS5 games to Windows and Linux through executable conversion, replacement system libraries and Vulkan graphics translation. The experimental open-source project offers an intriguing approach to compatibility, but early developer-reported progress is not yet proof that a wider library of games will run reliably.

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Windows 98 gets an XP-era networking surprise

A surprising retrocomputing experiment has surfaced: an NDIS 5.1 network driver made for Windows XP / Server 2003 reportedly running on Windows 98. It is an eye-catching compatibility breakthrough that hints at new possibilities for networking on vintage PCs—while also raising questions about how far this kind of driver support can really go.

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Super Mario FX: a homebrew project brings Mario 64 to the SNES

Homebrew developer Game of Tobi pushes retro hardware with an ambitious 3D platforming prototype. Simplified worlds, tight storage limits and rough performance reveal the compromises behind the experiment—and the ingenuity involved in making old machines do something new.

Pixel-art banner for Impossible Mission NEO showing an agent, robot guards and neon-blue platforms inside a browser-window frame.

Impossible Mission NEO puts a familiar retro name in your browser

Impossible Mission NEO puts a familiar retro name in your browser. Discover the web-based project and revisit the Commodore 64 classic that combined robot-dodging platform action, hidden password fragments and puzzle-solving against the clock.

Amiga computer beside an illustrated FXChainPlayer interface, with audio visualisers, vintage floppy disks and a red-and-white Boing Ball.

FXChainPlayer expands Amiga music support, from tracker modules to executable tunes

FXChainPlayer expands its Amiga music support, from classic MOD files to executable tunes, with improved playback and tools for extracting old soundtracks. Free for Windows and macOS, it also supports C64, Atari, Nintendo and Sega music formats, combining retro listening with modern effects and audio export.

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Mirari PowerPC Board Moves Toward 100-Unit Production Run

The Mirari, a new community-driven PowerPC mainboard designed with AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS in mind, is moving closer to wider availability. The board combines the PowerPC platform with more modern hardware features including NVMe...

THEC64 Handheld beige clamshell gaming console with retro game on screen and pre-order details for £104.95, 25 built-in games and 15 October 2026 release.

THEC64 Handheld Now Available to Pre-Order

THEC64 Handheld is now available to pre-order from Amazon UK for £104.95, ahead of its 15 October 2026 release with 25 built-in C64 games and expandable microSD support.

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GoldenEye 007 N64 Decompilation Reaches 100%

The GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64 decompilation project has reached 100%, completing years of reverse-engineering work and opening the door to deeper mods, fixes and potential native ports.

Commodore Plus/4 computer with a colorful retro space shooter scene promoting Scramble Arcade, a 64K PAL-only freeware release.

Scramble Arcade Blasts Onto the Commodore Plus/4

Scramble Arcade brings Konami’s classic shoot ’em up to the Commodore Plus/4 in a new 64K PAL-only freeware conversion, available now from Plus/4 World.