Author: Paulo Garcia
I remember when I was 13 years old and I’ve got my first wristwatch, a CASIO that had a shoot’em up game. The game was simple, but I spent so much time playing it that the watch battery had to be replaced sooner than I imagined. LCD games are unique on the way they are built, with pre-defined images that are…
MSX is not well known in North America but is very popular in Japan, Europe, and Brazil. The hardware of the 1st generation is very similar to the Colecovision, and the games present great graphics and sound. To increase awareness of the platform as well as to bring new homebrew games, MSXDev organizers a competition every year and the results…
The traditional Retro Challenge is happening again throughout the month of April. The contest asks you to “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for a month”. It is a great way to take that old project from the drawer and finish it. It could be a hardware project, a computer restoration, a new application or game,…
Way back in 2015 we shared News about a new game called Aviator Arcade II, announcing an early preview release. Aviator Arcade II is a shoot’em up packed with action and amazing graphics. After almost three years, the game is now complete, and Mark Hindsbo is working to finish the changes for release on cartridge and floppy disk, as announced by…
Among the many CSDb releases that show up every day, sometimes we see something that stands out for many reason. It can be technical excellence, skilled coding, or beautiful art. Sometimes there are some that excel on all of above! That’s the case of Game Art Beyond by Bliss. The program itself is a slide show that presents incredible graphics…
In a post published on January 17th, Kevin Watkins announced his decision to create a new programming language targeting the ZX Spectrum Next: The idea to do so originally came from the Facebook group for the ZX Spectrum Next, a new FPGA computer based that is an enhanced version of the ZX Spectrum, the computer I first started to program on…
I love magazines that talk about retro computing and/or retro gaming, from Retro Gamer to Juiced.GS, from Reset 64 to CommodoreFree to mention only a few. Now, there is a new kid on the block – Paleotronic Magazine! The first issue takes a look at the history of the Consumer Electronics Show including interviews with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and…
The Wing Commander series is my favourite action game on PC as I remember spending many hours playing them, sometimes attempt to complete a mission and failing countless times. While browsing my news feed this morning I saw that The Digital Antiquarian has published another extensive article about Wing Commander II which got me very excited! If you haven’t read…
We are living the golden era of retro computing, with all the activities happening around the World, including shows, new hardware and software, etc. There are, however, some examples of retro “something” that is in full activity nowadays but started when retro computers were brand new and survived all these years. Call A.P.P.L.E is one of the best examples of this…
Every now and then, the CSDb (Commodore Scene Database) holds competitions among its users. One of them that ended at the end of January was the International Karate Graphics Competition, which, as the name hints, has the game International Karate as the theme for the entries. The compo had around 40 entries and IK – Waterfall got the highest CSDb rating, scoring 9.6….
