Category: Announcement
Today I realized it is Vintage is The New Old birthday! It has been exactly six years since we registered the domain, which marked the beginning of ViTNO as we know today. The actual begin could be set in 2011, before my time, when Sarah also some other folks started a Commodore-exclusive website called Commodore is Awesome (aka awesome.commodore.me). Over…
If you are looking for new, bright and shiny things to keep you amused during periods of social isolation then 7 Sided Mint may have the solution for you, an ‘8-Bit User’ range of commemorative coins. Designed to celebrate retro video gaming, the coins are made are designed and manufactured exclusively for 7 Sided Mint and come in Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum theme…
Bitmap Soft is pleased to announce that the fun run’n’gun game Galactic Tomb for Amstrad is now available as a physical release on pre-order basis from their website. Originally released by ESP Soft as a free download in 2018, the Bitmap Soft cassette version differs in that it includes English translations. Galactic Tomb sees you take control of the most…
Retro Gamer Nation (RGN) kicked off it’s poll for the inaugural RGN Amiga Gamers’ Choice 2019 Award over this past recent weekend with hundreds of new Amiga game enthusiasts lodging their votes to decide the winner. This year’s award nominations were open to all games (including ports, remakes and near completed beta versions) made available to the general public during…
We’ve wanted to build a ViTNO community for supporters of our site, as well as friends and fans of the retro computing scene for quite some time. Sadly, as cool as a Teletype or BBS might have been, even vintage computing enthusiasts need to move with the times, so instead we welcome you to join our very own Discord server!…
As you can probably see by now, we are tweaking the home page a little bit, completely removing the left panel and moving some of the important things that used to be there to the right panel. Our objective is to give the main content (pages, articles, etc) more space and make it ready for more upcoming features that we…
When reflecting upon the state of the new gaming scene for 8-bit home computers, we have our fair share of platformers, shooters and puzzle games but fighting / beat’em up games have been far and few between. Well Bitmap Soft, along with Puddle Soft, want to change all this with their announcement of the Beat’em Up Dev Comp 2020 for…
It’s nearly Christmas, so we thought what better way to celebrate the end of 2019 than with a cool competition! Yes that right, we are holding a competition with Future was 8bit to win a C64 SD2IEC and a Fast cart! The competition is being held on our second Twitter account @CommodoreBlog. To grab a chance of winning, please read…
New entrant to the retro game publishing scene, Bitmap Soft have been busy signing up game titles to release to the market in physical cassette format. In addition to their launch titles – All Hallows (ZX Spectrum) and Chronicles of Nanako (Amstrad), Bitmap Soft have announced that they will be making available the following titles: Cousin Horace (ZX Spectrum) Gluf…
Bitmap Soft is looking to be the next ‘big player’ in the software publishing space for vintage home computers with the launch of two cassette format debut titles – All Hallows (ZX Specrum) and Chronicles of Nanako (Amstrad CPC). Established earlier this year by Darren Doyle and Jamie Battison, Bitmap Soft will be specialising as a software house publishing new…
