The Retro Remakes Family Of Websites

REWIND MAGAZINE - Rewind is Retro Remakes very own online magazine, just in case you hadn't noticed it linked from the front page! Featuring reviews of remakes, games from the indie sector, coding tips, retro articles and much more. A very enjoyable and useful read, even if I am ever so slightly biased. Rewind prides itself on its honesty, reliability and readability. If you're not a reader yet, why not?

BAG FULL OF WRONG - or what remakers do in their spare time. For those moments when not remaking games, a couple of remakers churn out their own indie games. Always fun, always free and guaranteed not to waste your downloading time. Games by gamers, for gamers.

Friends of Retro Remakes

WAY OF THE RODENT - Way Of The Rodent embodies the original spirit of videogaming. An online magazine that never fails to deliver an entertaining read, thought provoking articles and laugh out loud moments. Essential reading for anybody.

ONE SWITCH - One Switch is, to quote the blurb, a resource of fun ideas and 'assistive technology', aimed at moderate to severely learning/physically disabled people. A very worthy cause to bring gaming to more people.

TWATTOCK - Twattocks Underground Gaming is the godfather of RR, [JJ]'s new project. Game reviews for the ADHD generation. 5 lines or less, reviews that will cut to the chase with no fluff or bull.

GDHOST - High speed server rentals from Gamers Division. Good friends of ours and reliable gaming servers, provided the RR team with some of their best Counterstrike moments and a fantastic bunch of chaps all round.

Useful Packages For Creating Retro Remakes

BLITZ RESEARCH - Home of the Blitz family of products, from Blitz+, Blitz3d and BlitzMax to more useful tools and utilities to make coding a game a doddle. Probably the most used packages on Retro Remakes for games creation.

THE GAMES CREATORS - With over 7 years in the business building up a collection of fine products and tools, TGC has something for everyone - from DarkBasic to FPS Creators to Texture Makers and much more.

CLICKTEAM - Home of The Games Factory, Multimedia Fusion and Install Creator. Useful and easy to use packages that take the pain out of games creation. Extendable, adaptable and powerful utilities of use to amateurs and professionals alike.

GAMEMAKER - Mark Overmars incredibly powerful drag, drop and scripting package has blossomed from a bare bones start into a product that can rival most powerful languages. Don't let the cost fool you into thinking this is just a cheap and useless package. Once you learn how to use it, you'll be amazed by how much it can do.

CODERS WORKSHOP - A veritable goldmine of languages, resources and handy things to aid you in your games creating quest, from particle generators to model packs and much much more. Also the new home to Blitzcoder.

General Links To Some Sites We Like

REMAKES ZONE - A fine home to Spanish Remakes and a great companion to Retro Remakes itself. An excellent source of news and some fine remakes too.

COMPUTER EMUZONE/REMAKESZONE - Another great Spanish Remakes site for you to explore and wander around. A fine resource.

ATARI.ORG / THE LITTLE GREEN DESKTOP - Looking for useful stuff for the Atari ST? Well, look no further than these two excellent resource sites. Just about everything you could ever need ST related can be found contained within their hallowed doors.

BACK 2 THE ROOTS - Huge database of legal Amiga emulation stuff. You can't go far wrong from here if the Miggy is your scene.

WORLD OF SPECTRUM - 10 years strong at the time of writing, WoS is THE single best resource for Uncle Clives baby, featuring downloads, magazines, tips and anything else you could possibly dream of Speccy related.

THE CPC ZONE - Fantastic resource for the piggy in the middle in the Commodore vs Spectrum wars, despite often containing the better port than either of the two big players. Well worth digging into.

LEMON 64 / LEMON AMIGA - Kim Lemons excellent Commodore databases, catering to both of their biggest selling machines. Screenshots, reviews, downloads and more.

MAME - The ultimate in Arcade emulation, ever updated and with an increasing amount of games added with each release. Surely there's no-one out there without MAME in their homes yet?

STAIRWAY TO HELL - The BBC Micro and Electron archive site. Just about anything you could want or need to know about the computers that populated Britains schools in the 1980's and the original home to classics such as Elite and Exile.

THE MSX EXPRESS - Essential resource site for all things MSX'y.

THE OLD COMPUTER DOT COM - Many, many machines, a whole ruck of information and useful files. You could easily lose yourself for hours exploring this site

PLANET FREEPLAY - Excellent listing site for freeware titles, an increasing catalogue of games listed, reviews and interviews plus the all essential "where to download" links.

THE BURROW - Gordon Houghtons little corner of the web, Zzap64 witterings, Commodore64 stuff and a fair old read to keep you occupied.

WORLD OF STUART - Online home of journalist Stuart Campbell, ex Your Sinclair, Amiga Power and innumerable other magazines that would take an eon to list. Some of the most honest and best articles on the internet.


Useful Files that may be needed to run Retro Remakes

ALLEGRO DLL'S (DOS)
all3928.dll all3930.dll all3931.dll all3932.dll all3933.dll all3934.dll all3935.dll all3936.dll all3937.dll

ALLEGRO DLL'S (WIN)
all3932.dll all3933.dll all3934.dll all3936.dll all3937.dll all3938.dll all3939.dll alleg40.dll

DIV BASIC DLL'S
DIV Basic has two versions of the same DLL if one doesn't work try the other...
div32run.dll version 1 div32run.dll version 2

DOS EXTENDERS
cwsdpmi.exe dos4gw.exe

GAMES FACTORY DLL'S
cncres32.dll cncs.dll cncs232.dll cncs32.dll

GLIDE DLL'S
glide2x.dll glide2x.ovl glide3x.dll

JAVA
Java 2 Standard Edition (External Link)

OPENGL DLL'S AND OTHER BITS
glut32.dll glDirect (External Link) MESA 3Dfx OpenGL Microsoft OpenGL v1.1

WINDOWS RUNTIMES
DirectX (External Link) vbrun300.dll Visual Basic 6 WinG v1.0

WINDOWS 2000/NT/XP
VDMSound v2.0.4 (DOS sound emulator)
Dosbox (External Link - x86 emulator)
SolVBE (External Link - DOS emulation)




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