Author: Paulo Garcia

Howard Scott Warshaw, the veteran programmer, best known in the game industry for his pioneering work at Atari on titles like Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, spoke at the last GDC about his work designing and coding Yars’ Revenge, widely believed to be one of the best Atari 2600 games ever made. Recently his name was…

Javi Lavandeira is already known by us with his series of articles about MSX development. Today he published on his blog an great article about his visit to ‘Sony Design: MAKING MODERN’ exhibition about the design of Sony products, happening in Ginza, Japan. There, according to Lavandeira (which we agree 110%), they have on display one of the coolest-looking MSX…

The German and English issue 114 (May/June 2015) of the magazine Amiga Future has been published and can be ordered directly from the magazine’s editorial office or Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Among other articles the current issue contains the second part of the interview with Cherry Darling, a review of Swamp Defense 2 and a report from the…

Let’s Play Game Expo organizers have acquired copies of Hyper Fighting for Virtual Boy, and will be doing a live demo at the event next August 1-2 in Dallas, Texas. According to Christian Deitering (best known as “Ferris Bueller” on NintendoAge), people attending the event will be able to play Hyper Fighting all day Saturday on real Virtual Boy handhelds,…

[youtube Xp-SgLJle1E nolink] Retro Collect website has reported the discovery of another long lost unreleased title for the Super Nintendo – Tom VS Jerry The Chase is on!. The user steve78 on NintendoAge forum has published some pictures of the ROMs and he’s in the process to make it work, and hopefully make the game available for the public later…

The Guardian website has published today a new article about the ZX Spectrum Vega entitle “ZX Spectrum beeps again as nostalgia for 80s tech takes hold”. It states that the ZX Spectrum Vega will arrive later this month to the hands of the backers of the project first. It also mentions that company behind the comeback, Retro Computers, chaired by…

[youtube WnVeB5UX8LY nolink] Chris Torrence has published the Assembly Lines video podcast #11 which shows how to remove the soldered RAM chips in an Apple //c and replace with socketed RAM. Source: A2Central

With the deadline first set to May 1st, TND’s SEUCK Game Creation Compo has been extended until May 7th, giving you all more opportunity to submit your game. The competition started on January the first, and as of writing, nine entries have been received so far: META14 by Errazking Shamai – Return of the Myths by Slavia T-UFO by Errazking…

Probably the Commodore computers are the most blessed with excellent modern development tools, like C64 Studio, which just got a new update. If you didn’t hear about it, we reproduce here all the information you need to know about it. C64 Studio is a .NET based IDE (Windows only) that supports project based C64 assembly (ACME syntax) or Basic V2….

We reported here last month the release of Kaboom, a game from Ninjaforce for the Apple IIGS. The group have now released a small update, mainly fixing a number of issues including: Fixed a bug where the game crashes during play. The game now stores settings and scores (oops). Typos in credits fixed (plus some names we forgot). Source: Call…