Category: Computers

The Curious Four go to Black Devil Reef -Inspired by The ZX Spectrum game – Five on a Treasure Island-

A Gruescript adventure combining Lovecraft with The Famous Five by cpdesign Scott Macarthur – a health and safety inspector from Cumbria – has been sent to Kirrin Village to oversee some construction work on Kirrin Island. Scott’s Aunt Fanny has kindly invited him and his friends Dave and Jon to stay at her cottage near the sea. His cousin Mike,…

DONKEY KONG (Arcade ZX Collection) -ZX Spectrum-

 by Bubu Marcianito Bubu is a true specialist in fantastic arcade conversions for the ZX Spectrum. Titles like Tetris or Botanic are part of the retina of the followers of the system. Now we have Donkey Kong, a new conversion much loved and highly regarded, and also from Nintendo. On Spectrum, we had the port made by Ocean, which produced a disparity…

C64 Tetris

 by rexracer Tetris for Commodore 64 (C64) in Kick Assembler This project is a clone of the classic Tetris game, developed for the Commodore 64 (C64) using Kick Assembler. The aim was to recreate the core mechanics of Tetris, including piece movement, rotation, line clearing, and scoring, while working within the constraints of the C64’s hardware. Download, here Source:https://rexracer.itch.io/c64-tetris

Pleinz Gaz Made freely available by the Author

Pleinz Gaz Made freely available by the Author

The author of Zephyr, Pleins Gaz and other titles that have been recently re-issues, Richard Sorbeka, has announced that he is releasing a number of his games on his personal website.According to his recent posting in the Apple II Enthusiasts group, Richard says:As a former developer and an Apple enthusiast, I’d like to share one of my creations for the…

Bill Atkinson Announces Cancer Diagnosis

Bill Atkinson Announces Cancer Diagnosis

Longtime Apple, Inc. employee, Bill Atkinson has announced that he is afflicted with Pancreatic Cancer and is currently undergoing treatment. His announcement on Facebook reads as follows: Request for PrayersNovember 12, 2024 I am asking friends and well-wishers to pray for me. I believe that group intention can actually make a difference. On October first, I was diagnosed with pancreatic…

VIC-20 2FER 24k

by huffelduff  Jumpman Pete is a homage to early 1980s platform games. Island Beach Head is a homage to the classic C64 Beach Head game. Pipes and flood are just two small games with some interesting mechanics. Download, here Source: https://huffelduff.itch.io/vic-20-2fer-24k

Desert Rally-ZX Spectrum-

 by ZXKerl Take on the desert in DESERT RALLY, an 80s-style game with simple “O” and “P” controls. Dodge cacti and camels in a clunky car that’s more grit than glamour, in a 12-direction driving challenge that’s as unforgiving as it is addictive. Sinclair BASIC by Kerl Some graphics taken from AsteroideZX and Kweepa Participant in the CSSCGC 2024 Download, here…

Brutal Deluxe Software Announces the Port of Encounter

Brutal Deluxe Software Announces the Port of Encounter

What is Encounter Adventure? The original game was published in 1983 by Severn Software. It was released for the Oric computer, and then for the Spectrum one. We heard of it recently on the Facebook group Ordinosaures when the HD version made by Mickaël Pointier was announced. The only differences between the original game and our version are the addition of…

Treasure Island PC Recovered

The work of preserving and recovering video games does not stop. Another translation of a text adventure for PC by Idealogic has now been recovered, this time it is about Treasure Island, by Byron Preiss As with 9 Princes in Amber, Idealogic’s work seems limited to the translation of the texts and there are no other changes with respect to the English…

A. F. Asteroids -Commodore PET-

 by milasoft64 A machine language Asteroids clone for the Commodore PET computer A.F. Asteroids is an Asteroids clone game written by Andrew Farmer in 6502 machine language. It plays on all PET model computers but plays best on 4032 models. There is assembly code included and a PDF of the original game code as it was written on paper by the…