Category: Computers
OpenFlops is a hardware-based floppy emulator, similar to the Gotek drives. Besides many improvements over the original, OpenFlops is available under a free licence and therefore can be built by everybody. Suitable for most retro computers that use either internal or external floppy disk drives as a direct replacement or additional drive so you can load games/software from a USB flash…
We’ve been posting many articles and tutorials about Punyinform, a C64 library that let you create Text Adventure games for the C64 using Infocom’s Z-Machine. In order to play those games on a computer, you need an interpreter and that is where Ozmoo comes about, a Z-machine interpreter for the Commodore 64 written by Johan Berntsson and Fredrik Ramsberg in…
Kay Savetz, one of the Antic Atari Podcast hosts and die-hard Atari fan has announced a new and cool project: @Atari8BitBot. The project was inspired on the BBC Micro version which was limited to BASIC, and the Atari8BitBot was created by Kay Savetz and Bill Kendrick. With this tweet bot, you can send any code in Atari BASIC, Turbo-BASIC XL,…
Louie Dimovski has published a great video on YouTube talking about the some of the most recent small commercial and freeware games for the Commodore 64. It is a great opportunity to hear about many of the new games for the C64 while taking a sneak peek on their gameplay. Louie has also added all the mentioned games links so…
The Nibble Magazine website is the place where you can buy the full collection of the Nibble Magazine and other publications. After his creator, Mike Harvey had died last year, the website went dark but after many months of work, his son Scott Harvey brought it back, revamped and offering not only the Apple II magazine but also other publications…
Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program If you are following this series of articles, you could be thinking right now: “What a jump! From a Hello World…
The Shadows Of Sergoth is a new Amiga dungeon crawler in a first-person view. It is based on the 2018 Amstrad CPC 6128 game by Christophe Petit & Kukulcan. Double Sided Games has released a playable demo for us to try! The game is been developed for the last 18 months by Colin Vella (code), Ten Chu (graphics), and Mike Richmond (music and…
The MSXDev’20 has come to an end and, once again, presenting amazing games for the MSX. This year there were 21 participants with a wide variety of genres, from platforms to shoot’em up’s. This year’s competition focused on the MSX1 machines with its original configuration when it came out, which follows this specification: CPU: Zilog Z80 running at 3.58 Mhz…
Treasure Island Dizzy is a game released in 1988 by Codemasters. Developed by the Oliver Twins, the game was initially released for the ZX Spectrum and followed versions for many platforms: Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, NES, Amiga CD32, Windows, and Atari Jaguar. As you can see, the Plus/4 is not in the list! Don’t sweat!…
Our own @CommodoreBlog on twitter tagged me about this game and I am glad I saw it! If you like Lemmings, you gonna love Planet Balls. In this new puzzle game for the Commodore 64, your job is to guide the balls to the exit of each level either adding or removing blocks. The game has even a back story:…
