Author: Paulo Garcia
MSXdev’18 deadline is February 14th, 2019, but the competition has already received its first entry: Burn Us. Burn Us by Carambalan Studios is a strategy/platform game targeting the MSX with 32kb of RAM. The game proposition is quite “weird”. You are a masochist part of a cult called “The Sect Givemehard” and your goal in the game is to burn yourself…
Team Rusty Pixels has released a new scroll demo for the ZX Spectrum Next: ScrollNutter. If you are a coder, you will be happy to know that all the source code is included! Releasing the source of this demo, Jim Bagley and the Rusty Pixels team hope that anyone looking into to developing on the ZX Spectrum Next will be…
YAPE (yet another plus/4 emulator) has a new version: 1.1.6. Although VICE is the usual choice for Commodore emulation, YAPE is a strong alternative, focusing only on the TED-centric computers: the C16 and Plus/4. The new version 1.1.6 features: added Hungarian KERNAL version to the machine setup MTAP pulse length correction in the ‘Tape head adjust’ dialog option to confirm…
The BASIC 10-Liner contest is one of the “retro-related” highlights every year for the amazing creativity and technique presented by the contestants. This year is no exception, with nothing less than 65 entries, targeting several different platforms. Although the vast majority of the entries are targeting Atari and Commodore computers, there are some programs made for the MSX, Amstrad CPC,…
With the announcement of the 15th edition of MSXDev, the team behind the contest seems to be willing to give us all extra perks that will make the 15th anniversary celebration even more unforgettable. They have created a page that lists all previous editions contestant entries. That means more than 140 MSX games for the MSX, all available as free downloads….
The New Dimension has released another SEUCK-based game. Valkyrie 3, The Night Witch. With a rich background story, the game is a shoot’em up divided into aerial and ground missions. In the aerial phases, you pilot a Polikarpov Po-2 biplane named “Sasha”. At first, the plane is poorly equipped but it can be upgraded when you catch the power-ups that can show…
Amiga-news.de website has published a short note about the development of the Amiga trademark battle that has been happening for some time now. This time, Hyperion is suing Amiga Inc., Itec, and Cloanto. Since the documents are not publicly available yet, it is not possible to know what Hyperion is claiming. The only information is about the defendants: Amiga, Inc….
Today I stumbled across this article written by Carsten Elton SØrensen. In the article he talks about his idea of adding function ROMs to the Commodore 16. Out of the box, the C16 supports only external ROMs. Internal function ROMs were an exclusive capability of its sibling, the Plus/4 which provided a built-in productivity software suite. The article, very technical, first starts…
It was announced on the Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group that ReactiveMicro has available its Drive/Turbo IDE Controller for only US$75. The ReActiveMicro Drive/Turbo IDE Controller is a Mass Storage Device that once installed in the Apple IIgs or Enhanced IIe acts like a solid-state Hard Drive using Compact Flash Cards. If you have a standard Apple IIe, the company also…
A new version of AppleCommander, a tool that manipulates Apple ][ disk images, has been released. The new version 1.4.0 brings the following changes: Updates: Migration from SourceForge to GitHub. This updates the boot code to point that out. AppleCommander would hang in an infinite loop if a directory wrapped in on itself. Fixed a filtering issue on Linux and…
