Author: Paulo Garcia
Tec-toy is a Brazilian toy/electronics manufacturer that had launched, in partnership with Sega, the Mega Drive initially in 1990, around one year after it brought the Master System to the Brazilian gamers. Although it passed through tough times in the late 90’s, the company kept investing in Sega consoles and even launched original Mega Drive games at the beginning of the…
Amitopia has published a nice article revealing that the Amiga sound chip was already capable of play high-quality 14bit sound back in 1985. At the time, the limit was the 68000 that couldn’t get the machine to play raw 14bit wave files. Not sure if that is common knowledge but it is a surprise to me, just proving how advanced…
I hope the title of this post won’t be seen as a bait&click one, as in this new game for the ZX Spectrum you play as a chess piece, but you don’t play the chess game! Knight Hero is an arcade/action platform game where you play as the knight, the only chess piece that didn’t get enprisoned by their enemies….
Slime, a game created by Mr. NOP and released last year for the Commodore 64 (reported here), got a new version just in time for the World of Commodore, which happened last weekend in Toronto, Canada. There are the additional features added to the game: A loading picture Bug fixed the level display Bonus life at 10,000 points Starts in single…
It was uploaded to the Internet Archive the only issue of Databar Magazine, a publication that tried to offer type in programs for its readers in a very innovative way. Instead of the traditional listings with source code in the pages of the magazine, Databar presented the programs in the form of a barcode. The proprietary Databar OSCAR scanner was…
Today, I came across this blog post on Ken Shirriff’s blog where he describes how to print a Christmas card on an IBM 1401 mainframe, a pretty popular low-end computer sold throughout the 60’s. Driven by the Reddit’s Retrobattlestation challenge for this month, the blog post is super interesting not only for the Xmas card itself but because it gives us a…
The backers that opted in to get the ZX Spectrum Next board were happy to see their packages waiting for them at their doorstep but as soon some of them hooked it up, they were surprised by some unforeseen problems. The main issues are related to the keyboard, HDMI, and problems with the screen. Early this morning, Henrique Olifiers wrote a…
After a long time without new issues, Pro(c) Atari magazine is back. To make up for the time lost, the magazine now has a new format and more pages. The issue #13 brings 104 pages full of Atari goodness, including: Perplexity Sikor’s Atari-Party Achilles DungeonLord Spelunker Rain Of Terror Spare Change Boulderdash – Turn your sceens into a game Diamondz 2…
For all of us that have overlapping interest in game design and retro gaming, the GDC 2018 will hold an interesting presentation: Classic Game Postmortem: ‘The Bard’s Tale I and II’. Michael Cranford, the designer of the iconic RPG series first launched in 1985 will be the speaker. This session will explore the conception and development of Interplay’s ‘The Bard’s Tale…
Xentax Foundation had let us know that a new production batch of the FM-YAM, a sound expander compatible cartridge, will be available soon and you can reserve yours now. FM-YAM will add 9 FM sound channels to the C64, enabling mixing with the 3 SID channels. Here are the main features: Supports YM3812 or YM3526 (via sockets) YM3812 included single unit…
