Category: Computers
For those outside the Atari XL/XE World to understand, #FujiNet is a modern peripheral for Atari 8 Bit computers. Conceived as a network adapter, the device quickly expanded its capabilities to become an SIO peripheral emulator. With it, you can access BBSes, retrieve Atari disk images from remote servers, create and/or play network-enabled games, store disk, cassette or cartridge images…
Demoscene – The Art of Coding is an initiative to enlist the demoscene as the first digital culture on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage. AJ and Joerg (er, Derision and Nafcom) talk to Dedux, Flopine, Kudrix, and Unjello about why this is important and how we can all help move the initiative forward. (interview begins at 10:00) http://scene.world/artofcoding
Matthew Clarke has been developing Top-Hole Golf, a very sophisticated Golf game for the Commodore 64 and he is keeping the source code already open, hosted on Gitlab. At this point, the game is already playable and looks complete, with graphics and sound effects. There is no background music, but maybe that is a design choice, since golf matches are…
Retro Games Ltd, producer of THEC64 and TheVIC20 held a game competition that has invited developers to create games for the VIC-20 and C64. The compo got eight VIC20 games and four C64. The themes were all over the place, bringing a nice collection of new games for the two platforms. I confess I would expect the opposite, with more…
Derek Morris has published his 2nd RetroGameDev book, a guide that will teach you how to develop games for the Commodore 64. This second volume will include more advanced techniques including: VS Code & Kick Assembler Debugging & Profiling Raster Interrupts Sprite Multiplexing SpritePad & CharPad SID Chip Music Playing Assembly Game Coding Multi-Screen Handling The first book presented a…
Just before the end of 2020, VITNO broke the news with the announcement of Nixy The Glade Sprite for the Commodore 64 and we are excited to reveal that the game will receive a full commercial release via Psytronik Software. Nixy The Glade Sprite, developed by BubbleSoft, is a scrolling platform adventure game that sees you take control of Nixy…
The British developer H0ffman, well-known in the Amiga Demoscene, has announced that he is porting the classic Metal Gear for the Commodore Amiga. Konami’s stealth game that spawned many sequels was first released for the MSX in 1987 will work on an Amiga 500 with 512Kb or RAM. The developer is modifying it to run at the full frame rate…
Planeta Sinclar, the Portuguese website dedicated to the ZX Spectrum, and in my opinion, the best one around for the Speccy, has announced the winners of GOTY 2020, the Game of the Year 2020 event that was held online this last Saturday. Other than ranking the best overall games of 2020, the event exalted the best games for different genres…
Petmate is an open-source cross-platform C64 PETSCII image editor created by Janne Hellsten (@nurpax) in 2018. Since it is developed using Electron, a framework that allows you to deploy a web application, Petmate is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The current version is 0.8.3 is very usable and full of nice features: Commodore 64 standard character mode graphics with…
Retro music is in right now, but few people have taken it to the lengths that Remute has, releasing his songs not just on vinyl and digital download, but also on cartridge and floppy disk (Amiga, C64, ect!) ! Joerg, Martin, and AJ talk to him about why he chose this medium, and the unique challenges associated with releasing music…
