Month: June 2015
The strangely titled ‘Lindwendture Project’ is a new Commodore 64 adventure work in progress by master coder Enthusi and graphics genius Oliver Lindau. I have been watching this game for some time now on the German Forum 64, and also on Oliver Lindau’s Facebook page where it was announced way back in February. To be honest I didn’t take much…
An interesting hack version of Super Mario Bros on the NES has been released. On this version Wario takes over instead of Mario, and the visuals are also following its new protagonist ‘style’. The patch is available to download in the link below but you will need a rom image of the original Super Bros rom, It is a bit…
Oceano is an Amstrad deep sea submarine maze game made in AGD by EgoTrip and he has also ported it over to the Spectrum too. Amy decided to explore the seas in search of 20 fabled power crystals that have long been lost in the ocean. However there are robotic fish guarding them, and acidic bubbles that can damage her…
I’ve just found this link posted on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group, where Christopher Phin writes about his passion to buy vintage computers (mostly Apple in his case). It is a very entertaining and light reading, and at least for me, it reflects very precisely what I feel about vintage computers. The author said his in his 30’s which explains…
As mentioned earlier here, 64bites.com is a website run by Michal Taszycki that will run weekly screencasts, teaching you budding programmers out there how to write intros, demos and games in 6502 machine language on your favourite breadbin, the Commodore 64. The website at the moment has some teaser lessons using BASIC, but it is now officially announced that the full…
We reported back in February about the demo version (shown exclusively at the Retro Computer Museum event 2015) of Dragons Lair for the humble ZX81 computer. We found some more information over at sellmyretro.com about the final release which is the full game and fully playable!, and they said it wasn’t possible! The game is available for just £10 and…
Earok (Erik Hogan) over at Unofficial CD32 Ports has updated his lovely website with another new release, this time round it’s Jaguar XJ220. Jaguar XJ220 by Core is a fantastic arcade racer and is quite possibly Unofficial CD32 Ports most bonus-laden solo release to boot. Features Latest WHDLoad slave – copy protection screen so no keyboard is required (but useful…
WinUAE 3100b23 RC3 has been released. We’re getting close to the end of this beta now, with a new release very close on the horizon! WinUAE is without a doubt the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience. Download: winuae_3100b23.zipRelease Notes: http://eab.abime.netSource: http://www.winuae.net
To shorten the time until the Sqrxz 3 release, Retroguru presents an update of Sqrxz 1.This is not just a minor update, but the program was recoded from scratch, based on Sqrxz 3 code (which inherited code from Solid Gold). Enjoy Jump & Run frustration at smooth 50 fps! Minimum system requirements: Amiga, 1 MB, Kickstart 1.2. The second button on…
The guys over at C64.com have added an interview with Mevlüt Dinç / MD Software, Vivid Image. Mevlüt started dabbling with the Spectrum computer purely for fun. Learning to program, he created a few basic demos from just books and magazines. Within two years he had learnt how to program in machine code. In time he moved onto programming games…
