Category: Computers

The Secret of Monkey Island on an Apple II? Not quite there, but this is an impressive demo you should check out

Vince Weaver was already news here on ViTNO when he showed us the excellent Myst demake for the Apple II using double lores graphics. Now he has done again, releasing an impressive proof of concept of The Secret of Monkey Island running on the same Apple II computers. It all started when Vince decided to play the Secret of Monkey…

Commodore 64 Round-Up – October 2020 – Know everything that is going on with the C64 in less than 15 minutes!

Retro Gamer Nation‘s Louie Dimovski has come again to help the Commodore 64 enthusiasts. His monthly round-up series gives us the best summary of game releases and upcoming games for the platform. The October 2020 video release is up where you can find more about games like Star Wars Empire Strikes Back, Stoker, Alien Neoplasma, and many more. All that…

Survival Messenger Adventure – A Beautifully Illustrated Text Adventure for the Commodore 64

Survival Messenger – The Adventure, is a new illustrated text adventure game for the Commodore 64. The premise is that you find yourself lost in an island and you have to find your way out without dying – I assume that last part is goes without saying! The classic gameplay is enriched by a nice modern touch. You have at…

Retro Games, the maker of TheC64 teases an Amiga 500 for 2021

Our frenemy website, Indie Retro News, has a short post today telling us that Retro Games, the maker of TheC64, has a not-so-encrypted tease on their Facebook page showing a computer silhouette as a new release for 2021. It doesn’t take two seconds to realize the mysterious computer is an Amiga 500! So yes, it looks like 2021 will bring a “THE”…

Speccy & VIC-20 gamers rejoice…your Vegetables are being served

Double Sided Games has announced that the ‘Match 3’ style puzzle game, Vegetables Deluxe will soon be available for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore VIC-20. The premise behind the Vegetables Deluxe is to swap adjacent vegetable shapes to form lines of three or more in a row. When this occurs, those shapes are destroyed and new shapes drop in from…

#FujiNet – The all-in-one Atari 8-bit peripheral is available now for purchase

The Vintage Computer Center store, one provider of the also excellent SDrive-MAX has announced the immediate availability of #FujiNet. #FujiNet is a network adapter that attaches to the SIO (Peripheral) port of an Atari 8-bit computer system to a WiFi network. Although networking was the initial objective of this device, it has become a jack-of-all-trades SIO peripheral emulator. The project is…

Magnetic Scrolls classic masterpieces remastered for the Spectrum Next

Strand Games has announced that the illustrated text adventure games The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter from Magnetic Scrolls are now available in a remastered version for the ZX Spectrum Next. To make the news even more interesting, all their source code is on GitLab which means you can download these games for free. Strand Games website explains…

Going into Action! with Atari XL/XE – Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!)

Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program Yes, no sugarcoating! In this third part we will be talking about pointers! Hello?….. Hello? Usually, when people start to learn…

Scene World Podcast Episode #96 – The Retro Gaming Scene in Venezuela with Pedro Planas

Pedro Planas is a computer game retro composer and a YouTuber from Caracas, Venezuela. Not only he shares his passion for video and computer game music, but also gives us an inside about what is going on regarding the retro scene in his country and why it became harder in the last 11 years for the video game companies to…

MSX Enthusiasts rejoice! Clube MSX issue 10 is out!

Clube MSX magazine, currently the only printed magazine dedicated to the MSX computers just released its 10th issue! The new issue of the Portuguese-speaking publication started to be shipped to who pre-ordered and subscribers this last Monday and it is already available to everybody else for purchase, costing only R$ 24.90 (that is less than USD 5) + shipping. Among…