Author: Paulo Garcia
The 19th edition of MSXDev has started. The competition that began in 2003 has brought to life many high-quality games for the MSX. The 2023 edition will follow the previous year’s “freestyle” approach, where the game can be created for any MSX machine that was ever sold. If you think you will try to create something this year, you have…
Recently I learned about an exciting project that started a couple of years ago: ugBasic. ugBasic is a cross compiler of BASIC dialect specialized in programs that are very efficient by design on various 8-bit platforms built on top of 6502, Z80 and 6809. This is a tall order, but ugBasic seems to pull it off very well. ugBasic comprises…
During the last MSX users’ meeting in Barcelona, Konamiman has announced a new project that he has been working on for a while: Nestor, a new Z80 cross-assembler. The main objective was to be able to build Nextor without having to use CP/M emulation to run MACRO-80, but since Nestor is a general-purpose Z80 assembler, if can be use for…
It is that time of the year when we all get excited about BASIC, but only if it is restricted to 10 lines of code! And, for the third time, I am honoured to be part of the judging panel! Once again, you can show off all your skill in writing compact BASIC code for the 2023 Basic 10Liner contest,…
Not long ago, I posted about the development of Angry Birds for the Apple II, including the gameplay video showing it in all its glory! One of the things that most impressed me when I saw Angry Birds was how low-resolution graphics could look so good on a game. It is not the only example of excellent low-res games out…
With my busy life, this is not exactly hot news, and you all might have seen it elsewhere, but I thought it would be nice to write something about it anyways. The Apple Lisa was released 40 years ago, and although it is considered a commercial failure, it paved the way for how you interact with the computer you are…
After having announced the judging panel (here), Planeta Sinclair posted the list of all games that will run for “best of” in different categories, including the most important: GOTY. To elect the nominees, first, the judges had to go through a list of 130 names and vote for five favourites (10 for GOTY). The result of this list is what…
Logiker’s Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2022 had more than 200 entries, which is a staggering number, and we can say the challenge was a success! Logiker has now posted a YouTube video/slide show displaying not only the results (which should be the same on all of them, of course!), but also the code that generated it. There are some very…
It looks like the emulator developers have been working hard these past few weeks. YAPE 1.2.2 was released today, bringing important changes. These are the most important new features and bug fixes that made it to this release: SID card mouse emulation (in DirectInput mode) Manufacturer-dependent RAM powerup patterns copy the emulator window to the clipboard as a bitmap the…
Following the usual end-beginning-of-the-year articles or videos showing the best of 2022, The Game Beaters YouTube channel has published a very informative video about the best NES Homebrew games of 2022. The video is a curated list of the best 10 NES games out of almost 100 games, demos and proof of concept releases for the Nintendo Entertainment System released…
