Category: Announcement
We held a PunyInform game jam in April/May and it was a great success, so now we’re doing it again. Each participant (a person, a pair or a team) writes their own text adventure using the PunyInform library. If you’ve thought of writing a text adventure but need an event and a time frame for it to actually happen, this…
Infocom released Zork 1, 2 and 3 in the early 80s. They were all made to be playable on the home computers of the day using a disk drive. As some of you are aware, they also created a cut-down version of Zork 1, called Mini-Zork 1, which was just small enough to fit into memory on a C64, so…
Ozmoo is a Z-code interpreter (a program to play Infocom-format text adventures) for Commodore computers. Thanks to Steve Flintham, there is now a version for Acorn computers as well. Using Ozmoo for Acorn, you can play these games on a BBC B, B+ or Master or an Acorn Electron. Ozmoo for Acorn detects and takes advantage of a co-processor, sideways…
Just before the end of 2020, VITNO broke the news with the announcement of Nixy The Glade Sprite for the Commodore 64 and we are excited to reveal that the game will receive a full commercial release via Psytronik Software. Nixy The Glade Sprite, developed by BubbleSoft, is a scrolling platform adventure game that sees you take control of Nixy…
Retro Gamer Nation is pleased to announced that Zeta Wing by Sarah Jane Avory has been declared the most popular C64 new release game for 2020. Over 370 gamers participated in the public voting event whereby C64 gamers where able to select up to 5 of their favourite nominated games for 2020. Zeta Wing took out the award with 144…
Retro Gamer Nation (RGN) has announced that voting for the RGN C64 Gamers’ Choice Award 2020 has commenced – with C64 gamers given the choice to select up to five games as their favourite for 2020. The Commodore 64 new game scene excelled throughout 2020 and RGN has nominated 20 quality titles for the C64 gaming community to select. The…
Ozmoo Release 5 is out. Ozmoo is a Z-code interpreter (a program to play text adventures which use Infocom’s game format). The first version of Ozmoo was released in December 2018. It was written to produce playable games for the Commodore 64. Now, with Release 5, support has been added for Commodore 128 and Commodore Plus/4. Games built for the…
PunyInform is a library for the Inform 6 programming language, to make it easy to create simple or advanced text adventures which will work well on 8-bit computers like the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Spectrum +3 etc. We have been covering this excellent development tool for a while, but you can start here if you are new to…
Blast Annual is pleased to announce the availability of its multi-platform digital magazine celebrating retro computing & the retro gaming community – Blast Annual 2020: Volume 1. Blast Annual 2020: Volume 1 is full of retro reading goodness within its 214 pages. Not only does the Annual show case more than 90 games reviews across Amstrad CPC, Atari 2600, Amiga,…
