Author: Paulo Garcia
Stephen Jones is developing an advanced R-Type game, and he’s trying to use all the good stuff the extended Atari STe has to offer. He mentions that the development is going well, and it supplied to AtariCrypt a nice set o brand new screenshots. Even sucking at it badly, R-Type is one of my favourite games, and I try to…
Do you have that retro project stuck and untouched for years!? Now it is time to step up and finish it! And the best way to do that is competing with fellow retro collectors for bragging rights, right? Retro Challenge 07/2015 is exactly that, a competition where you enter promising to accomplish something and commit to blog about it. It…
“NeoBrian” has published a new video following the well-known “Let’s Play” format, where he plays through the game ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’, release in 1983 by Quality Software for the Apple II (and other platforms). [youtube 7vECZ_6PF9U nolink] Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is an overhead dungeon crawler with strong RPG elements that sends you on a…
This episode features Letter Wizard, originally released in 1984 by DataSoft, and developed by Special Systems Software. As usual, the podcast website (link below) offers a wide variety of scans and screenshots for you to get a better picture of this software. Link: Inverse ATASCII
Dwayne Johnson will be the hero of Rampage, based on the arcade created by Midway in the 80’s. The production will start only in summer 2016, and the plot is still under wraps, but if you remember the game or watch the video below, it you will know that there is a giant gorilla, giant lizard and a giant wolf…
Nick Lee (@nickplee on Twitter) has squeezed the Mini vMac Emulator on the Apple Watch. The video below shows the feat, where you can see OS 7 booting and running on the tiny Apple Watch screen. [youtube R1xJxS_kr-M nolink] It is noticeable that it runs slow, and probably there is no real use for that, however it is a incredible…
Commodore Free Magazine has published its latest issue #88. The magazine is provided for free in PDF and HTML format. Some of the contents of this issue: General News ASM80 Update Homebuilt MOS 6502 Laptop The Games-Coffer Website TAP Manager 1.0.2 Raspberry Pi SID player RECOIL 3.2.0 Released C64 News Gamebase 64 Update To v13 Commodore C64C Molds Found Ultima…
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…
[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…
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…
