Category: Computers

Murder Manor – The first interactive adventure presented in double lo-res graphics for the Apple II

The Crow Cousins (Daniel Henderson and Roby Sherman) have released a new graphic adventure for the Apple II, featuring beautiful low-resolution graphics using the double lowers mode of the Apple II. Murder Manor follows a similar plot and gameplay of a Clue game where you have to walk around, going to different places of the Screenhole Manor, interacting with objects…

‘Sensi-Soccer’ game style comes to Amstrad

Bitmap Soft is pleased to announce the availability of CPC Soccer: International Edition for the Amstrad CPC, developed by Israel Roman from Voxel Tower. CPC Soccer is a football/soccer simulation game that sees you take control of one of 20 international teams as you put them through their paces in either a friendly exhibition match or a knockout tournament consisting of…

ZEsarUX 9.0 – ZX Spectrum emulator gets major update, including MSX, Colecovision emulation support

The well-regarded ZEsarUX emulator reached version 9.0 bringing a foot-long list of new features and improvements, notably the addition to non-Sinclair machines like MSX, Colecovision, Spectravideo, and SEGA SG-1000. ZEsarUX is open-source and multiplatform, having off-the-shelf installers for Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry PI, and many others. Initially created to be a ZX Spectrum emulator, Cesar Hernandez’s program quickly extended its…

‘Poke for ZX’ – An experimental game that let you taste a Pokemon game on a ZX Spectrum +3

Now you can taste a Pokemon-like game running on a ZX Spectrum +3! The developer known as +3Code has created a J-RPG featuring ‘Poke’, a mutant cat that is very similar to the Nintendo’s most famous Pokemon. Who are we kidding, it is a 100% accurate copy :) The game was created using the +3 BASIC language and it is…

Review: Boxymoxy (C64)

We review the new C64 brain-teaser from Pirates of Zanzibar!

Doug Turner, the developer of Icicle Works for the Plus/4, releases “The Pit” – a new game after 30+ years

Doug Turner has released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. After more than 30 years after creating Icicle Works and Prospector Pete, Doug decided to work on a new game following the Boulderdash-style gameplay. According to Doug, The Pit was born of his desire to revisit Icicle Works and correct the mistakes he made back then, most notably the…

Last Train to Tranz-Central – A new ZX Spectrum game is now available for download

Quantum Sheep, the author of Jumpin’ Jupiter has released Last Train to Tranz-Central, a new game for the ZX Spectrum 48k/128k. Although in essence, the game is a puzzle-platformer where you grab collectibles while avoiding the enemies, its setting conveys an old-school Run ‘n’ Gun arcade game, which makes it pretty unique compared to some other great recent releases for…

vAmiga beta 0.9.10 – The newest Amiga emulator for macOS has a new version

I’ve been a regular user of VisualC64, a very good C64 emulator created by Dirk Hoffmann for macOS for quite some time. One of the main qualities of the emulator is the user interface, very user-friendly and polished. Since 2019, Hoffmann has been working on a new emulator for the Amiga 500, 1200, and 2000. vAmiga promises the same user-friendly…

MSXDev’20 – A Ten-year-old girl’s game is among the last ones submitted for the compo, totalling 21 games!

July 31st was the last day for MSX developers to submit their games to the MSXDev’20 game competition. Since our previous post about the compo, another five games made their way in and are now running for the best MSX game 2020. With many good games running, our attention fell on the last submission, Bloody Mary, a game developed by…

A TRS-80 Color Computer Commercial Quality Action/Fight Game in BASIC, part 1

Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03. If you have seen my other project devlogs, you probably noticed I pull a lot inspiration from that title´s primeval computer. Yes it was were I self learned to do computer games, mostly with the aid of books and magazines from those times. After finishing The Outhouse game, which mimics the COCO´s semigraphics 4…