Author: Paulo Garcia
A new version of Virtual II emulator has been released. The new version 8.0 brings many new features and improvements. The big changes are behind the scenes, resulting in a 64-bit application that is compatible with the most recent MacOS APIs changes. This, at the end, ensures the longevity of Virtual ][ running on this and the next versions of…
Galencia is a new game created by Jason Aldred. At a glance, you could think it is merely a re-skinned Galaga but there is more to it, and we going to take a look here. Galaga is an icon in the video game realm, just next to Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. I remember playing the game on arcades but, although I love…
Atariteca is a website that publishes news and articles related to the Atari 8-bit machines. It has published a new article which is actually an open poll asking for the visitors to vote for the best original game of 2017. The site is in Spanish, but anyone will be able to vote since retro gaming language is universal :) Here…
Would you buy new a computer for US$ 24,000 nowadays? Unless you are loaded, the answer is probably “no”. That is what happened with the Apple Lisa when it was released in 1983 for US$ 10,000. Although it had very cool technology with its Graphic User Interface and the use of a mouse to interact with the computer, only about…
At a glance, Pac-Mad looks like a Pac-Man clone but after looking a little bit further you will realize that it is more than that. First released as a WIP (work in progress) at the demo party Irony 2017 by Wojciech Bociański, the game gathered a lot of attention, even being in the early stages of development. Wojciech then took…
Limbo is a side-scroller game released by Playdead Studio in 2010. The game took the game industry by surprise showing fabulous black & white graphics, clever puzzles, and terrific animation. It was awarded many times by several different game developer associations and now is available for almost all modern game platforms you can think of. But the big news for…
A lot of people out there that celebrates Christmas like to have their own traditions that are repeated religiously every year. Blake Patterson from Byte Cellar has also jumped on the tradition rituals bandwagon and once more published a post showing off retro Christmas demos. The 2017 demo collection consists of 16 demos across 13 platforms, including the CoCo, ZX…
Terrible news for the ZX Spectrum community. The creator of the ZX-Modules has announced that he will leave the retro scene and with him the ZX-Modules webpage and Facebook page. ZX-Modules is a comprehensive set of tools and utilities for ZX Spectrum cross-development. The set includes ZX-Paintbrush, ZX-Blockeditor, ZX-Preview, and ZX-Assembler among other indispensable tools that made a lot of people’s…
MSXPad is an IDE that let you program for the MSX using the Pascal language, which can be a nice way to get started on the MSX world for those who are not versed in assembler or C. The biggest problem to start using the tool is that the current official version doesn’t work on Windows 8 or 10. Thankfully,…
Our old friend Carsten ‘tomse’ Jensen has produced two amazing calendars for the year of 2018. One containing all months on one single page, and the other, the traditional one page per month. Both are full of our all-time favorite C64 game images! The calendars are in PDF and ready to be printed. If you were looking for a calendar, consider…
