Author: Paulo Garcia
Atariage user Ramses let us know about this video of the Atari programmers panel from the Portland Expo 2015. It includes Bob Smith, Tod Frye, Rob Zdybel, and Howard Scott Warshaw. Anyone interested in retro game development should watch it. Really interesting. [youtube YLoJ5jcccPU nolink] On a side note, the video and sound are perfect, which is very rare in retro…
This new homebrew game released by Sik, offers fast paced action for up to four players (or Player vs. CPU) where you control one of the balls racing through the maze to gather the forming stars. The game lacks sound, but still offers great fun for the Mega Drive fans. You can download it for free following the link below….
We that lived the times where we would fistfight our friends in defence of our favourite computer brand/model, know how fierce and endless these ruses can last. How about settle it in a friendly trump card game? If you wonder how, I can tell you that it is going to be possible really soon. There is an already-funded campaign running…
Randy Kindig has just published the episode 49 of Floppy Days, covering the Texas TI-99. The episode contains also an interview Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills For the history segment, I was lucky enough to find a couple of people who have an incredible history with the TI-99, Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills. Jim has an extensive, multilingual library of…
Dawn is a new Disk-based magazine for the Commodore 64. It consists in 3 disks with tons of contents for the Commodore user. This issue has an interview with Johan “Zyron” Astrand, a sweeten musician that has already released more than 300 SID tunes. Among other great articles, there is one talking about the “Forever” party, that had already sixteen editions!…
Forum 64 has released the rules for its new game competition 2016. The theme is “strategy games”. The competition will run from January 1st to Oct 31st 2016, but the registration has to be done until Dec 31st of this year. The forum thread explains the definition of Strategy games, and what will be accept. You can read all the…
The Golden Apple is a luxurious one-off-a-kind replica and a tribute to the 128k. It’s handmade from American walnut instead of molded from plastics, but the dimensions are kept unaltered. And just as the original, the replica has the built in handle for lifting. The Golden Apple does look like a classic Macintosh, but in reality has an up-to-date Mac…
Wiebo de Wit has released a new post of his serie “Tetris in 6502 Assembler” for the Commodore 64. On this article he tackles the generation of random numbers and the keyboard input. Although the article is focused on the C64, the techniques are applicable for all 6502-based machines. It is worth checking this and all the previous articles. Link:…
Lachlan Keown released a new version of his Retro Game Asset Studio (RGAS). With RGAS you can design various asset types (sprites, sound / music, levels) for different retro computers (Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum). It is a cross-development tool, which runs on the .NET runtime under Windows and with Mono it can be used under Linux, too. It is…
Spanish homebrew developers The Mojon Twins are back with yet another free release – this time a port of a ZX Spectrum game from 2005 known as Moggy. Your goal in each screen is getting each one of your pink friends, avoiding touching the green bushes. You can download the game following the link below. Download: Mojo Twins Source: RetroCollect
