Category: Computers
That’s not the first time Fusion Retro Books does a promotion like that, but it is always welcome to see good books for free or very cheap. Some of their “In Pixels” books are free, including C-64 In Pixels and The Story of the ZX Spectrum In Pixels Volume 1. The next two volumes of the Speccy series are only…
The Yandex Museum, located in Moscow Russia, launched a retro games contest in July, seeking new game submission for the ZX Spectrum by 5 December 2019. The contest has proven to be quite popular with 19 games submitted and now you have until 11 December to try out all the entries and submit your vote. Browsing through the submissions there…
It was released a few weeks ago a new episode of the Apple Time Warp podcast, a show hosted by John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom… you know him) and Craig Johnston. The podcast has a sparse schedule, with only eight episodes published in the last 6 years. This year, however, they managed to release two episodes, and with very prominent…
Birgit “Bigi” Lechtermann is a German TV moderator, book writer and media trainer which talks in this interview about pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows “Computer Corner” & “Technik-2000″ which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more…
I remember when I acquired my Plus/4 I had to pay a good price for a TED chip so this is huge for the C16 and Plus/4 owners! From RetroHax.net: “This time it is not a story but rather a piece of news. Willy/Lamers and me, we are working on a TED replacement project. As we all know, TED is…
The 4 Masters of Melody, the first game created by the Clube MSX magazine, is getting a well-deserved cartridge release. The launch will happen on December 7 and 8, at the MSX SP 2019, an event for MSX enthusiasts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The boxed version of the game brings small graphic enhancements, a printed manual (Portuguese and English) all…
I’ve been dedicating some of my time learning about Atari 8-bit programming mostly through old Atari books you can find all over the Internet and they are a very good source of information for sure! However, it is nice to see that there are some modern efforts to keep the subject fresh and up to date. One of the most…
R-Type was published in 1988 by Electric Dreams Software for the ZX Spectrum 48k, and they made an excellent job with it. However, due to the hardware and memory limitations, the game was released without music, which was a big part of its frantic gameplay. This weekend, a new mod for the classic game was released trying to close the…
Prince of Persia is probably one of my favourite games, and one of the most frustrating as well, mainly when you fall on those spikes after not getting the perfect timing for the jump. Although it was initially developed for the Apple ][, which shares the same CPU, the 6502, the game was never released for the Atari 8-bits. With…
For a number of years now, Commodore Amiga gaming enthusiasts have long been looking over at the Commodore 64 scene, envious of the volumes of new titles being released for the machine on an almost weekly basis But 2019 has been a watershed year for the Amiga. Not only has it seen a marked increase in the number of new…
