Category: Computers
Bitmap Soft have made a major move by producing their first cartridge release on the label – Freaky Fish DX by DESIGN/chaos. Freaky Fish DX is a fun arcade style game that sees you play a giant bubble blowing fish trying to protect the other little fishes in the sea from a dynamite wielding fisherman. The basic objective is to…
Infocom released Zork 1, 2 and 3 in the early 80s. They were all made to be playable on the home computers of the day using a disk drive. As some of you are aware, they also created a cut-down version of Zork 1, called Mini-Zork 1, which was just small enough to fit into memory on a C64, so…
Clube MSX magazine started last Tuesday (03/16) the pre-sale of its 12th issue, the first of 2021! You can already purchase the magazine through the official website for R$ 24,90 (~USD 4.50) plus shipping. The plan is to start sending the issues from March 26th. For international shipping, contact directly via contato@clubemsx.com.br. Features Among the many features, you will find a…
When Martine Postma was done with the “throw away and buy new” behavior of society, she had no idea that her idea for a repair cafe where the layman can come in and get help repairing their electronic devices, would cause international awareness. Nowadays repair cafes are spread all around the world! Learn her story how it all started, how…
A recent update by Bas Scheijde (aka Acied) has revealed that his Commodore 64 port of the puzzle arcade game Puzzle Bobble is being readied for an end of April release [updated]. Puzzle Bobble provides a tile matching style of game play where you use your pointer device at the bottom of the screen to aim and shoot bubbles up…
Pro(c) Atar, a printed magazine dedicated to the Atari 8-bit line of computers has just announced its 15th issue, bringing 104-pages of Atari goods! Content: TIME FOR A QUICKIE (Strip Poker – Lindsay, Time Pilot, Jet Set Willy) BANDITS ENGLISH SOFTWARE’s SMASH HITS II + III (Stranded, Robin Hood, Citadel Warrior, Diamonds, Air Strike II, Batty Builders, Breath Of The…
Ozmoo is a Z-code interpreter (a program to play Infocom-format text adventures) for Commodore computers. Thanks to Steve Flintham, there is now a version for Acorn computers as well. Using Ozmoo for Acorn, you can play these games on a BBC B, B+ or Master or an Acorn Electron. Ozmoo for Acorn detects and takes advantage of a co-processor, sideways…
As of today, remute, the known musician, DJ and retro release music album creator on consoles, disks and other outdated media, joined “Scene World” as PR Assistant to help creating more penetration towards social media and awareness in the retro community of what they are doing.
Lawless Legends development started 9 years ago, even before I got involved with retro computing, but thanks to the developers’ love for the game and most of all, for the Apple II, the wait is almost over. The plan is to release the game this Summer, on July 4th. To make sure the game is 100% at launch, the developers…
When I first got my Amiga 500, around 5 years ago, it came with an external 3 1/2″ floppy that, added to the internal one, provided a very flexible way to try out the more than 2000 disks that I’ve got in the same package (all legal copies of course! wink, wink). That got me busy for a while but…
