Month: June 2015

Montezuma's Revenge! – 80's Classic Comes to Android!

This is the official version of the 80’s classic game “Montezuma’s Revenge!” by the original creator! Explore the chambers of the mysterious Aztec pyramid! Climb the stairs and ropes, collect keys to open doors! Collect the jewels & swords, and the coveted torch! Beware of the snakes, skulls and spiders! And finally, find the treasure room at the end of…

Chris Huelsbeck attends live tomorrow at the Frankfurt Film Museum at 6 PM GMT for an interview!

Chris Huelsbeck attends live tomorrow at the Frankfurt Film Museum at 6 PM GMT! Free Entrance! It’s also streamed live via Twitch! He is being interviewed by Nafcom of Scene World Magazine. More Info about this on the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1594807314140760/ And the Olymptronica Twitch page here: http://www.twitch.tv/olymptronica

'Viva Amiga' Documentary announce the world's first public screening at the Computer History Museum

The documentary ‘Viva Amiga’ was crowdfunded back in 2011 and it’s been in production since then. If you are, like us, looking forward to watch it, here is a great opportunity to be one of the first to enjoy it. The Viva Amiga Team and the organizers of the US Amiga 30th anniversary event are pleased to announce the world’s…

Vitno Update: New Game Reviews!

News Updates from Vintage is the New Old.Robert Joy from Ram Retro Arcade Memories has sent over his latest batch of Arcade reviews for Vitno. Some classics there for you all to enjoy! You can read the reviews below on our Reviews Page, as well as many other ones by Rob, Stuart Johns and C64Glen. Pac-Land (Arcade) Paperboy (Arcade) North…

Hackersoft/CiA Exclusive release! AIRWOLF-MBSDH-

AIRWOLF-MBSDH- Mega Bollocks Super Duper Hack* is the standard game of Airwolf by Elite Systems but with additional 22 in-game FEATURES (not TRAINERS!) that have been added by Hackersoft. The GameAs Stringfellow Hawke, a former Vietnam chopper pilot, and the only man in the free world trained to fly the billion-dollar helicopter ´AIRWOLF´ you have been assigned a dangerous rescue…

#CPCRetroDev 2015 contest is open! 900€ in prizes!

[youtube cictUOfIJwA nolink] Great news coming directly from subreddit Retrobattlestations: The CPCRetroDev is a yearly game development competition held in Spain. The competition aims at discovering talented developers by asking them to develop retro games for 80’s machines. As you retrodevelopers know, computational limitations are a key factor for fostering creativity and encouraging new technical achievements and discoveries. Contest platform…

Scene World Podcast #8 : Captain Crunch AKA John Draper & Chris Huelsbeck being live on Twitch at Frankfurt Film Museum!

A lot of things happening! Scene World Magazine​ released today podcast episode #8 with famous hacker, blueboxer, and EasyWriter author John ‘Crunch’ Draper​ who came to Mannheim to visit his friends! :) http://sceneworld.org/blog/2015/06/21/podcast-episode-8-john-draper-aka-captain-crunch/ We also talk about our gig happening on Wednesday at 6 PM CEST which is an interview with famous game music composer Chris Huelsbeck​ happening in the…

‘Brilliant Maze’ for Commodore 64 Review

Brilliant Maze is a maze game for the Commodore 64 developed by Geir Straume, with music by Odie. The version 1.1 is available now for free here on Vintage Is The New Old download area! The rules of the game are very simple: find your way through the maze to pick up diamonds while avoiding the enemies chasing you. After…

NIBTools Updated

Pete Rittwage released a new version of NIBTOOLS. NIBTOOLS is a system to transfer data from original diskettes to a G64 or D64 disk image. These diskette images can be used with emulators or can be used to create new (real) diskettes. Changes in this version: Update for the SRQ code. SRQ nibbling is now the default. And a verify…

Mevlut Dinc – Interview

The guys over at C64.com have interviewed Mevlut Dinc. Mevlut is a game designer and has coded games on various systems such as the Commodore 64, Spectrum and Amstrad computers. The games he worked on are: Gerry the Germ, Prodigy, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Ninja 2, Time Machine, First Samurai and the development system for the C64GS….