Category: Computers
Doug Turner has released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. After more than 30 years after creating Icicle Works and Prospector Pete, Doug decided to work on a new game following the Boulderdash-style gameplay. According to Doug, The Pit was born of his desire to revisit Icicle Works and correct the mistakes he made back then, most notably the…
Quantum Sheep, the author of Jumpin’ Jupiter has released Last Train to Tranz-Central, a new game for the ZX Spectrum 48k/128k. Although in essence, the game is a puzzle-platformer where you grab collectibles while avoiding the enemies, its setting conveys an old-school Run ‘n’ Gun arcade game, which makes it pretty unique compared to some other great recent releases for…
I’ve been a regular user of VisualC64, a very good C64 emulator created by Dirk Hoffmann for macOS for quite some time. One of the main qualities of the emulator is the user interface, very user-friendly and polished. Since 2019, Hoffmann has been working on a new emulator for the Amiga 500, 1200, and 2000. vAmiga promises the same user-friendly…
July 31st was the last day for MSX developers to submit their games to the MSXDev’20 game competition. Since our previous post about the compo, another five games made their way in and are now running for the best MSX game 2020. With many good games running, our attention fell on the last submission, Bloody Mary, a game developed by…
Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03. If you have seen my other project devlogs, you probably noticed I pull a lot inspiration from that title´s primeval computer. Yes it was were I self learned to do computer games, mostly with the aid of books and magazines from those times. After finishing The Outhouse game, which mimics the COCO´s semigraphics 4…
Update: I mistakenly said the OS 8 was from 1991, but it is actually released in 1997. The 1991 reference came from the GitHub page mentioning the 1991 Macintosh Quadra running OS 8, which led me to make the mistake to assume the OS was from 1991-92. Thanks https://twitter.com/BoscoMac for the correction! In one of those projects that people ask…
Protovision is excited to announce that pre-orders for the standard cartridge edition of MW Ultra for the Commodore 64 will be available from their web shop on August 1. MW ULTRA is the latest title from the talented Covert Bitops team (Steel Ranger, Hessian, Metal Warrior 1 to 4) and is considered to be a gem of a game that features…
Like I mentioned in my previous article about MSXDev’20, with the deadline approaching, more and more contestants are adding their games to the competition. The fifteenth entry is the MSX port of l’Abbaye des Morts, developed by RetroDeluxe (Enric Geijo), based on the original by Locomalito and music by Gryzor87. l’Abbaye des Morts is a platform game where you play…
It is not a new thing to create new games based on classic arcade. Just look around on the Internet, and you will see the hundreds of Space Invaders, Pac-Man’s, Centipedes, and so on. Creating clones of these games is one of the best ways to get started in game development, for example, since the gameplay is usually well-defined and…
A new version of the Atari 8-bit emulator for macOS, Atari800MacX has been released. Version 5.2.0 brings support for a printer that is capable to print ATASCII graphics characters, which is paramount for printing BASIC program listings. The 80 column emulation is a bit rough in this release, in that it uses a separate window with a different aspect ration…
