Category: Computers
Following the success of Zeta Wing, Sarah Jane Avory has just released a second game in the series! Zeta Wing 2 is a fun vertical shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64, sequel to Zeta Wing, itself the winner of both the RGN Gamers’ Choice Award 2020 for the Commodore 64, and Indie Retro News Budget Game Of The Year 2020. Story:…
For “THEA500 Mini” Siegfried Hübner describes how to run also Atari ST programs on this rebuild of the Amiga 500 by Retro Games Ltd. It requires EmuTOS-Amiga.ROM and AmiBerry. In hist post, he warns that to avoid a flickering display, open the Amiberry menu and change Display Line Mode from “Single” to “Double”. The .st floppy disk images are compressed with GZip,…
Let’s face it. The Atari community has been jealous of their usual enemies for years. The Speccy enthusiasts have the ZX Spectrum Next, and the Commodore fans have the Mega65 and the Commander X16. Meanwhile, the Atari people could only dream about a modern Atari machine. Hold your breath, this is still the case, but there is a new hope…
DPaint.js is a sophisticated image editor capable of reading and writing Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images. The editor is not complete yet, but it looks pretty usable. A nice feature is the ability to visualize your artwork in Deluxe Paint running on an Amiga emulator directly in the browser. Main features Fully Featured image editor with a.o. Layers…
Coded by the mighty Luigi Di Fraia, aka The Chaos Engineer, a new pixel editor built from the ground up with a streamlined UI/UX reached the public beta phase and can be downloaded from CSDb today. Besides the usual design tools like Fill, Draw, Select and Move (some still not available), which you can find in many different editors, Albert…
Logos are an important aspect of demoscene culture because they serve as a means of self-expression and identification within the community. They can also be a source of friendly competition, as groups and individuals strive to create the most impressive and visually striking logos possible. In addition to branding for groups and individuals, logos are often used within demos themselves…
We have some big news for the Apple II fans: A2Central.com is back! Launched in June 2000, this Apple II site provided our community with news, announcements, and updates until February 2022. Now, after a one-year hiatus, its two decades of archives are available again — along with fresh content and a modern redesign, all under new management. If you…
Join us on this episode as we sit down with legendary video game composer and musician Frank Klepacki. With over 30 years of experience in the industry, Frank has created iconic soundtracks for some of the biggest games of all time, including Command + Conquer, Dune, and Star Wars: Empire at War. Not only is he a master of electronic…
retro fun for all Amiga-fans – perfect for a fun game in between, for 2 to 4 players beautiful illustrations of 32 Amiga models made exclusively for this card game bilingual: English and German Amiga Duel is the new card game that lets all Amiga fans, retro collectors and game enthusiasts fun-test their Amiga knowledge! The game can…
Game announcements are not my main focus here in Vintage is the New Old anymore – it is very hard to keep up and there are plenty of other ways to be up to speed with what is new in the retro gaming world, like, for example, Saberman’s YouTube channel, which does a fantastic job showing footage of most (if…
