Author: Paulo Garcia
Who Dares Wins for MSX2, a remake of the ’86 game Who Dares Wins 2 by Alligata, was launched in 2017 as a physical copy. If you haven’t had the chance to purchase or simply don’t have a real machine, you can now download the game for free. Retroforce has announced the great news at the 56th Barcelona MSX meeting, which…
If you hang out on the ZX Next Facebook group, it is relatively common to see people asking how to buy it if you are not a backer of the first campaign, which points to an increasing interest in the machine we learn to love to wait (!) It looks like there is still hope for those that missed the…
How much silliness you can fit in 4Kb? Ausretrogamer, the Australian retro gamer e-zine, has announced the 2020 Reset64 4Kb game coding competition. As the previous editions from 2016 and 2018, the theme is “craptastic”, and we have to quote Ausretrogamer post as it explains it properly: “Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and silly”. My…
World of Commodore is an annual gathering for …err… Commodore computers enthusiasts. The 16th edition happened last December 7th, 2019, in Toronto, Canada. I was suppose to go but at the last minute I had to cancel and was pretty annoyed to miss it. Thankfully, the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG), show organizer, just published the presentation videos on YouTube….
Organized by ZeroPage Homebrew, The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion, Mark/Space | Project Argon and AtariAge, the 2019 Atari Homebrew Awards nomination phase is complete and now the voting will start soon. The award is given to homebrew games created by all Atari 8-bit platforms in 2019, including VCS 2600, 5200/8-bit in the same category, and 7800. The categories are: Atari…
The amazing work by the Atariage user rensoup (and many others) continues and he has released the second playable level of the classic Prince of Persia. The update includes: one playable level (L2) PMG overlays with repositioning for the player (not for the enemy yet) preliminary music by Vinscool a lot more animation frames redone by TIX fix: random button…
In its update #56, the ZX Spectrum Next team comes with great news, saying that the Next is about to ship and the first 500 units were produced already and are currently being tested. Since the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter campaign was funded in 1987, or it was 2017? I can’t remember anymore ;), it is possible that many of…
ZX Parachute is a new game for the ZX Spectrum developed by Carles Oriol that follows to the letter the Nintendo Game & Watch game device released in 1981 where you control a boat that has to prevent parachutists to fall into the water infested by sharks. The boat can be moved left or right but can only be in…
I believe everybody, even outside of the ZX Spectrum community, knows about Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD), a game engine that lets you create professional-looking games for the Speccy and Amstrad CPC. Not long ago the Dragon and CoCo community were blessed by a converter tool that helped to bring nothing less than 219 games made with AGD to…
As you can probably see by now, we are tweaking the home page a little bit, completely removing the left panel and moving some of the important things that used to be there to the right panel. Our objective is to give the main content (pages, articles, etc) more space and make it ready for more upcoming features that we…
