Author: Paulo Garcia
Update 5/21/2020: Shortly after the release of 5.0.2, version 5.0.3 is available including a fix for a bug that would display double characters. Mark Grebe has update Atari800MacX to version 5.0.3 bringing the MacOS Atari emulator up to date with Catalina. This update fixes some of the bugs reported by users in the emulator Github repository, including fixing the full-screen…
A month ago I published on YouTube a video showing my vintage computer collection from when I was living in my old place (the video was shot in Nov/Dec 2019) and my main point when posting it was to raise the discussion about the differences to be a collector or simply accumulating old computers just for the sake of it….
Subcommander is the third entry for the 2020 edition of MSXDev, the already traditional MSX game development contest that this year is, for a change from previous years, allowing only pure MSX1 games to participate. With this in mind, Zoran Majcenić has created a colourful and fast-paced submarine shoot’em up game. The gameplay is straightforward: you have to destroy as…
Today I realized it is Vintage is The New Old birthday! It has been exactly six years since we registered the domain, which marked the beginning of ViTNO as we know today. The actual begin could be set in 2011, before my time, when Sarah also some other folks started a Commodore-exclusive website called Commodore is Awesome (aka awesome.commodore.me). Over…
It is always great to see when an article about retro gaming hits a major outlet. Yesterday, I found an article about game development for the ZX Spectrum on Gamasutra, the most prestigious game development website out there. Pedro Guida, an indie game developer that started to get interested in game development while playing and programming in his own Speccy,…
Steve Strowbridge has published today on his YouTube channel, the Original Gamer, a two-part video teaching how to emulate the TRS-80 Color Computer using MAME, the multi-purpose emulation framework. Although MAME is very powerful, it is not necessarily easy to set up for a specific machine if you are used to it, so Steve’s tutorials come to fill that gap…
The last week of April brought to great and completely different games for the Commodore Amiga. The first one will satisfy that urge of a quick arcade gaming session where you can jump in, play one or two matches, and move on with your life. Tiny Invaders is a nice version (homage?) of Space Invaders developed by Pink (Abyss) that…
I started collecting and creating a video of the new C64 demo releases on CSDb last year, but due to many reasons, the release schedule was inconsistent. This month, I decided to try again and see if I can create one a month, making easier for the viewers to enjoy all of them in a convenient way, without the need…
Manic Miner, one of the best-sellers games released for the ZX Spectrum, has been ported for the Apple II, and the source code is available on Github. I’ve reached out to the author, “StewBC”, and he was kind enough to answer my questions and more! Stefan Wessels, a fellow Canadian living in British Columbia, first saw Manic Miner at a…
Laserbirds, the new fast-paced shoot’em up for the ZX Spectrum by Bitnamic Software is now available for purchase as a digital download. Last month we talked about Laserbirds where we mention that the physical tape would be available sometime in the first half of 2020 but due to the current state of affairs the world is facing, Bitnamic has decided…
