Author: Paulo Garcia
The first edition of ViTNO Writer’s contest ended on June 30. We got to a verdict after some discussions with our judges, Randy Kindig (Floppy Days Podcast) and Kitty (@CommodoreBlog). All four entries were for the non-technical category and were about something that left a good memory for the writers, which was very nice since, depending on your past experience…
Clube MSX is starting this Monday (07/03) the pre-sale of My Sacred Place and The 4 Masters of Melody Ex in cartridge for MSX. Each game comes with a box, manual and gifts and can now be purchased in the Clube MSX virtual store for R$ 179.00 (promotional price for each game) plus shipping costs (international orders must be made…
Author: Anthony Albert Date: June 30th, 2023 Category: Non-technical When My Father Took Me to Night Class In the summer of 1982, my father signed up for a night course at the local high school. He wanted to learn about computers and maybe use one to help the family business out – specifically, with accounting software. This is because my…
Author: Tyson Rek Date: June 30th, 2023 Category: Non-technical ONLY A GAME Gather around my fellow Nineties Brothers and get ready to turn back the Way-Clocks as we board the express train of yesterday moving backwards at full steam through the green warp zone time tunnels all the way back to The Good Years. Back to the days before the internet…
Author: Supercruiser Date: June 14th, 2023 Category: Non-technical So to put things into context and the memories all tend to get a little blurred the further things go on, but this is how I recollect the below. I come from a small town in the regional area of South Australia, and my first dial up experience was with a…
Atari fans are in luck, as Andrea Cucchetto (Italy) has managed to convert the popular Commodore 64 game “Space Taxi” for Atari 8-bit computers, with lovely graphics, challenging gameplay and even digitized voices. Cucchetto, known for his contributions to the Atari scene with titles such as “Circo Bianco” (1987), “Hypnotic Land” (1992) and “Conquest of the Crown” (1994), decided to…
You always hear about ASCII, ANSI and PETSCII. So why not a special compo for Amstrad ASCII? It’s really time, isn’t it? Join this fun event! Create your own AMSCII art and enjoy the limits of retro computing. This event is held online only. Submission of entries: 27. May – 15. June 2023 (17:59 CEST) Submit your entry here For editing, use Playscii with the Amstrad ASCII Exporter or the new AMSCII…
Author: Francis Blais Date: April 28th, 2023 Category: Non-technical Growing up in Quebec, Canada, as a 90’s kid hooked on 8-bit video games, had its share of unique moments. For starters, I’m old enough to have lived the video store experience. Not the clean and abundant Blockbuster or Vidéotron experience; the small town, back-of-the-convenience-store one, with two small shelves of…
Following the success of Zeta Wing, Sarah Jane Avory has just released a second game in the series! Zeta Wing 2 is a fun vertical shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64, sequel to Zeta Wing, itself the winner of both the RGN Gamers’ Choice Award 2020 for the Commodore 64, and Indie Retro News Budget Game Of The Year 2020. Story:…
For “THEA500 Mini” Siegfried Hübner describes how to run also Atari ST programs on this rebuild of the Amiga 500 by Retro Games Ltd. It requires EmuTOS-Amiga.ROM and AmiBerry. In hist post, he warns that to avoid a flickering display, open the Amiberry menu and change Display Line Mode from “Single” to “Double”. The .st floppy disk images are compressed with GZip,…
