Author: Paulo Garcia
Dracula’s Castle is a new platform game for the Commodore 64. Released by MP Software, the game is based/ported on an old BASIC game, released in 1985. Although the graphics are mostly the same, the MP Software’s version is coded in assembler. The premise is simple: the hero has to collect the crucifixes and the key in order to open…
The December 2017 edition of TRS8BIT is now available from the downloads page, with well over 60 pages of news, reviews and general chit-chat for you to enjoy. There is news about the ‘Super Card Pro’ from cbmstuff.com, Ian Mavric has 4 articles, ranging from Tandy’s work with agriculture, down under, a review of his visit to the TA in Ohio, further…
As the ZX Spectrum Next boards leave the assembly line and head to the hands of the backers that opted for the board-only, Carlos Henrique Olifiers thought it would be very important to have a guide ready before the users receive their units. The ZX Spectrum Next board 2A is the first public version of the platform. It’s a bare…
MSXDev’17 has come to an end and the organization posted the results by category: MSX Classic WINNER: XSpelunker! XSpelunker: 8.3/10 Draconic Throne: 8.2/10 Tales of Popolon: 7.6/10 Mazogs: 5.86/10 Slime Center: 5.7/10 Magical Tower Adventure: 4.4/10 Andrea Petkovic Torneo de Tenis: 3.8/10 SKULLrs: 2.6/10 [vsw id=”-7O2Bz_6Oc8″ source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] MSX Freestyle WINNER: ΧΙ∧∃Χ! ΧΙ∧∃Χ (Zevimodoki): 7.04/10 Sweet Punch: 5/10 Other…
We were contacted by Robert Hurst about a project he’s behind aiming the revival of a BBS Door game. Here is what he has to say about it: “One of the first BBSes we had in our state of Rhode Island was The Roundtable, which was more of an online game for social networking rather than the files & posts that…
Glen Hewlett has published throughout the month of November five articles explaining how to setup and use interrupts on the TRS-80 Color Computer. He starts his blog talking about his motivation and objectives: Recently I was working on my MIDI to CoCo converter program and I wanted to output the data with an option that would include the player that…
VCF East XII happened earlier this year and if you weren’t able to attend in person, you can now watch the presentations on YouTube. Presentations like the Vintage Computing with Raspberry Pi with Dave Test, Commodore PET Repair with Todd George, Apple II Repair with Corey Cohen and many others are now part of the VCF YouTube channel. We are thrilled to see that…
Arcade Attack has published an interview with Al Alcorn, the designer of PONG, which we can all agree, is a landmark in the video-game history. The short, but entertaining interview focused on the time Al started at Atari and was tasked to create the arcade that helped to create the video game industry as we know it. You can check…
As you can see, the site is having less posts because I am enjoying my time in Brazil with my family (an acquiring some retro gems!). While my folks are getting ready for another family function, I was checking my emails and saw another update from the Next developers. The good news is that there is no news! As promised,…
Our friend and contributor, Madija Al-Husyni, has published a new video on her YouTube channel “MsMadLemon” where she plays Gauntlet 2 and 3 on the Amiga. This week’s ‘Nostalgia Time’ is from footage taken in the summer, forgotten and now found. My cousin and I played Gauntlet II and III two player, on the commodore Amiga 1200 using WHDLoad. This gameplay…
