Category: Computers
War has never been so much fun….or has it, check out Noobs Game Review of Cannon Fodder, on the Amiga, and find out
The realm of home conversions is a strange beast, especially when differing software houses tackle the same game. Soldier of Light is the perfect example. Similarities run through both the Amiga and C64 ports but the amount of original content that makes it in, how that’s interpreted and iterated on makes for some subtle but important differences on how each…
Yandex Retro Games Battle 2020 is an annual game development competition for retro computing fans targeting the ZX Spectrum that started last year. The success was so astounding that the organizers have decided to make the 2020 edition. Open to individual or teams from anywhere in the World, the contest rules (link at the end) are very simple. The contestant…
Planeta Sinclair is the most important source of news and technical articles exclusively dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Portuguese-speaking community. Behind its success is André Leão, a very passionate Speccy enthusiast living in Portugal. For the past week, we’ve been chatting about our websites and other projects and decided to make a cross-interview where I talked about…
Defined by the developer, VergeWorld: Icarus Rising is a sci-fi shoot’em up, racer game with exploration elements. However the game is still in development, Retro Bones has released a playable demo. In this demo version, you have to pilot Icarus trying to beat the Death Run challenge, which is a race against the time through one of the planet’s canyons….
Last month we took a look back at all the great C64 titles released in the first part of 2020. Well now it’s time to take a look in the other direction and highlight ten upcoming titles that C64 gaming enthusiasts should be quite excited about. It’s just amazing what is being produced for this great 8-bit machine, so enjoy…
Games That Weren’t has just announced that the collector Ken “Dutchman2000” Van Mersbergen has found and preserved the long lost AtariSoft conversion of Joust, a successful arcade game released in 1982 where you control a knight riding a flying ostrich. The game was ported to many platforms, like the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Lynx,…
Yazzie MSX Remastered is the fourth entry running for the best MSX game of 2020, contest organized by MSXDev since 2003. Developed by RetroSouls, Yazzie is a colourful puzzle-platform game where you have to find the best way to grab the gold while avoiding the enemies that get on your way as well as mines placed strategically to prevent you…
Holger tells us about his time publishing and writing books and software for the Amiga under Data Becker and later on other publishing houses. He talks a lot about the atmospheres and little stories and background about the times of computer book / software publishing in the 90s and throughout his book publishing today including the books for the C64…
This Sunday, TFW8B has shaken the retro computer community with the announcement of a new retro computer, the Mini PET. The Mini PET is a fully functional 6502 based computer, compatible with a Commodore PET 2001N-32. It presents one quarter of the size and the tenth of the power consumption of the original 40-year-old computer. Main characteristics: 40×25 text mode…
