Author: Paulo Garcia
Are you a retro computing and gaming enthusiast? Are you always amazed how some people can create AAA games for old platforms while others can understand electronics and put modern hardware accessories on the market, giving new life to our old machines? Do you feel left out when you see game programming, graphics, demos, or hardware contests happening all the…
Let’s face it. The Atari community has been jealous of their usual enemies for years. The Speccy enthusiasts have the ZX Spectrum Next, and the Commodore fans have the Mega65 and the Commander X16. Meanwhile, the Atari people could only dream about a modern Atari machine. Hold your breath, this is still the case, but there is a new hope…
DPaint.js is a sophisticated image editor capable of reading and writing Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images. The editor is not complete yet, but it looks pretty usable. A nice feature is the ability to visualize your artwork in Deluxe Paint running on an Amiga emulator directly in the browser. Main features Fully Featured image editor with a.o. Layers…
There is a new kid on the block to help you create NES games without digging deep into the 6502 Assembly. NESFab is a new programming language for creating NES games. Designed with 8-bit limitations in mind, the language is more ergonomic to use than C, while also producing faster assembly code. It’s easy to get started with and has a…
Coded by the mighty Luigi Di Fraia, aka The Chaos Engineer, a new pixel editor built from the ground up with a streamlined UI/UX reached the public beta phase and can be downloaded from CSDb today. Besides the usual design tools like Fill, Draw, Select and Move (some still not available), which you can find in many different editors, Albert…
Logos are an important aspect of demoscene culture because they serve as a means of self-expression and identification within the community. They can also be a source of friendly competition, as groups and individuals strive to create the most impressive and visually striking logos possible. In addition to branding for groups and individuals, logos are often used within demos themselves…
If you have been an engineer (or similar) since the 80s or 90s, it is almost certain you owned a scientific programmable calculator. Funny as it is, I am not among them. However, I remember a friend who had an HP-41CV, and one day he showed me a game running it. It was a lunar lander game where you could…
We have some big news for the Apple II fans: A2Central.com is back! Launched in June 2000, this Apple II site provided our community with news, announcements, and updates until February 2022. Now, after a one-year hiatus, its two decades of archives are available again — along with fresh content and a modern redesign, all under new management. If you…
Game announcements are not my main focus here in Vintage is the New Old anymore – it is very hard to keep up and there are plenty of other ways to be up to speed with what is new in the retro gaming world, like, for example, Saberman’s YouTube channel, which does a fantastic job showing footage of most (if…
Darren Doyle from Greyfox Books has announced today that his book about the SEGA Mega Drive is available for free as a downloadable PDF. Although this alone is good news for all Mega Drive (and Genesis!) fans, the reason Doyle decided this route is unfortunate, to say it lightly. After publishing “Atari: a Visual History” and “Coin-Op: The Arcade Guide“,…
