Month: June 2015
The best Commodore development environment has a new version – 3.3.0, containing bug fixes and the following new features: Add background picture to sprite editor. Sprite reorder tool. Character tools work on a range of characters. Assembler: Import binary as decimal data Assembler: Improved value pop-up formatting Assembler: Removed the restriction where files included in a build must have a…
It was announced today on World of Spectrum that the ZX Dev’2015, a competition to write new Spectrum games. The compo is open to anyone from anywhere to participate, and according to the organizers, the main goal is to have some fun, learn, and why not, get a little reward for bringing new stuff for our Spectrums! Ivanzx, from WoS…
The Edge is a new card game for the ZX81 coded by Johan “Dr Beep” Koelman. Requirements for this game – (1K, 16K, AY Card, Hi-Res Scheme): 1K, WRX hires. Description Card Game like patience, fill the edge with J, Q, K Controls: 12345 = Left67890 = RightQWERT = UPASDFG = DownYUIOP = Back to set modeBNMss sp = Set /…
Another small update for the colourful C64 platformer, Sam’s Journey. Knights of Bytes have released another teaser video titled ‘Metamorphosis, Part 1: A Pirate’s Life For Sam‘. Sam demonstrates some of his new abilities. He can pick up items and carry them around. Also, he can throw them at enemies! The chest, however, reveals an item with very special powers….
Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir, engineers that designed Amiga’s custom chipset “Lorraine”, will be attending on the next 25th & 26th of July the Amiga 30th anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Ron and Joe will be presenting for the first time their work on the Amiga Lorraine chip set, while working with Jay Miner, the…
My passion for computers started in 1983, when I briefly used one at school. It wasn’t until I was looking through a national newspaper, when I became drawn towards a Rumbelows advert for a Sinclair ZX81. I can remember begging my parents to get me one for my 13th birthday, it was affordable and looked to be a great start…
CJINUSA+27D crazy trainer hack is the standard game of CJ in the USA by Codemasters but with additional 27 in-game features that have been added by Hackersoft. The GameSomewhere in the deepest, darkest reaches of the African Jungle, CJ the elephant is playing. Suddenly there is an explosion, CJ turns around and sees a plume of smoke rising from his…
Star Wars: Escape From Mos Eisley is a simple adventure game created using AMOS. This game was a learning step for Umpal, so don’t expect anything amazing, however it’s pretty impressive considering all he knew of AMOS before he started was the name! Requirements Hard drive is a must. It should work on 1MB CHIP plus some other memory, but…
MIG n ZIGGY is a new platformer in development. Mig is an alien and Ziggy is the drone. The current focus of the work on this game is fine tuning of the design and a lot of pixel work lies according to the author (Invent), including the main character. Invent has kept to a 320×256 C64 16 colour palette and I…
Equality was originally written under PC-DOS by Jean-Michel Martin Santero then adapted by Bruno Ethvignot. An earlier version had been developed on the Amiga in 1991, but unfortunately was never finalised. This version was very different, but deemed too complex by many. Equality was programmed in machine language MC68000 with Devpac assembler and runs on Amiga OCS and 512 KB…
