Category: Computers

ListenerGS brings voice-to-text to the IIGS

ListenerGS

Jeremy Rand has released ListenerGS, a voice-to-text NDA for the Apple IIGS.

Juiced.GS Volume 27, Issue 1 now available

Juiced.GS Volume 27, Issue 1 (March 2022)

Volume 27, Issue 1 (March 2022) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has now shipped!

Zeta Wing Deluxe Edition Has Bonus Game!

Bitmap Soft has opened pre-orders for the physical cartridge edition of Zeta Wing for the Commodore 64. Originally released as a digital only version back in September 2020, Zeta Wing has received critical acclaim for its high quality vertical scrolling blasting action which saw it being voted as the winner of the RGN C64 Gamers’ Choice Award for 2020. The…

WÖRD, a Wordle version for the MSX, is the second entry for the MSXDev’22

Another game entered the MSXDev’22 competition. This time is a simple, but well-made WORDLE clone. I imagine the rules are well-known: you have five changes to guess the right 5-letter word. If you guessed the right letter but it is in the wrong position, it will be highlighted in yellow. If the letter and placement is correct, it will show…

RGN’s C64 Round-Up for March 2022 features ‘Lykia – The Lost Island’ Preview

This month’s RNG C64 Round-Up shows a 7-minute preview of the upcoming game Lykia – The Lost Island, an adorable and clever adventure that rivals toe-to-toe any early Legend of Zelda. The JRPG game will be available for purchase as a double disk or USB cassette by Psytronik, cartridge by Protovision, and the best of all, a digital version will…

MSXDev 2022 gets its first entry – Shadow Switcher

I’ve been playing catch up with some of the most interesting events in the retro community, and MSXDev’22 is one of my favourites. This year’s contest started in early January and will run until September 30th, 2022. The first entry is already in and it is a classic-style MSX1 arcade game. In this game, dubbed Shadow Switcher, you and your shadow…

A different BASIC contest for the ZX Spectrum can land you a ZX-Uno!

The Planeta Sinclair blog and the Arca Lusitana archive present: 2022 Pascalated BASIC Contest! This contest invites any interested to write a program in ZX Spectrum BASIC using a more structured approach than the usual BASIC from the 80s offered at the time. In a nutshell, no GOTOs are allowed! The idea came from the fact that when the ZX Spectrum Next was launched, it…

The Man with the Golden Joystick – A new game for the ZX Spectrum

Thanks to MPAGD (Multiplatform Arcade Game Design by Jonathan Cauldwell), there are a lot of cool platform games created for the ZX Spectrum and one of the latest releases using the tool is The Man with the Golden Joystick, a fun platform game where you control Hitch, from the RetroHitch channel on Twitch who plays the games he streams playing…

Scene World Podcast Episode #133 – The Video Game History Foundation with Kelsey Lewin

We’re delighted to welcome Kelsey Lewin to the podcast! Kelsey is a a huge nerd, preserving the history of video games with a focus on the weird and the obscure. She joins AJ, Joerg, and Frank to talk about her passion for games and her work for the Video Game History Foundation. (interview begins at 27:50) https://scene.world/vghf There is also…

2021 Planeta Sinclair Game of the Year Results – Lots of “AAA” games to play on the ZX Spectrum!

I am a bit late on this, but I couldn’t let it pass unreported here. On January 29th, the great Portuguese website Planeta Sinclair held an online event in which they announced the results of the 2021 GOTY. Last night I watched the show and was very happy to see many quality games being made for the ZX Spectrum, and…