Author: Paulo Garcia
It has been released ‘Heroes & Cowards – The Pentagram of Power’, a new adventure game for the Commodore 64. Created by Sebastian Broghammer and Steve Kups, and distributed by Protovision, the new game is is a point & click adventure game with amazing graphics, and compiling story. Protovision is releasing the game in two boxed editions: Coward and Hero editions.The Hero-Edition…
Edge of Time is a new game, the first one released for the ‘Sideways SEUCK Game Creation Compo 2015’. It was developed by Alf Yngve, with music created by Richard Bayliss (TND) using SEUCK. As the compo name suggest, the game is a side-scroller but with an interesting twist: you don’t control one hero, but two at the same time….
This is just a reminder that the tenth edition of VCF Midwest will take place on August 29 and 30, at west of Chicago in Elk Grove Village, IL. The show will run from 8:00 AM on Saturday on into the night, coming to a temporary close at 11:00 PM and reopening at 10:00 AM Sunday morning, and finishing by…
It was published this week the first gameplay video of ‘Jim Slide’, a new game for the Atari XL/XE that is being developed and will be a contestant on the ABBUC 2015 (Atari Bit Byter User Club). The game is an extension of a previous game called Slide, which is the runner-up of the NOMAM BASIC Ten-Liners 2015 Contest. In…
Back in the 90’s, Graham Axten, a mobile game developer, had developed two games for the Commodore 64 – Rock Maze and Worm!. Recently he decide to come back to the Commodore scene and released his two games on CSDb. On this article, the first part of a series, he will go over his challenge to finally develop a platform…
TechRadar website has published an article/slideshow of different Amiga prototypes: the D-44 with its wood-made keyboard, Amiga Lorraine and the Ranger, which was intended to be the Amiga 1000 successor. The photos were taken during the ‘Amiga 30th anniversary’ party in California, and the collection belongs to Amiga hardware developer Dale Luck. Link: TechRadar
Blake Patterson from Byte Cellar had recently his collection featured on PC Magazine website, and today he wrote a new article on his weblog (even calling it weblog is vintage, right?). The article is mostly about his story with computers, and his experience at school, etc… If you are around 40 years old you can probably related a lot to…
Rebecca Heineman has published the video she recorded during her Twitch streaming, where she talks about Burgerlib, a library that she’s been using for ages to develop games for Apple IIGS, Apple IIe and several other platforms. The video is about 1-hour long. During the first 20 minutes she talks about the history behind Burgerlib, its versions and its state…
We are always pleased to see some of the major news outlets talking about retro-computers. This time, PC Magazine website has published today a slideshow displaying 7 great Vintage Computer Collections, some of them from people we know well from the “retro scene”, like Byte Cellar, Nightfall Crew, etc… If you are thirsty for more, you can visit some of…
The new episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit podcast is out, with good content for all Atari fans out there. Among other subjects, the hosts discuss the Altirra BASIC, some thoughts about Kansasfest, and some interesting Atari updates at Internet Archive. To listen to the podcast, follow the link below. Link: Antic
