Category: Computers
The other day I saw on Amazon a new book for the Commodore 128 entitled “Vintage Commodore 128 Personal Computer Handbook: 2019 Survival Edition” that was released last March and immediately added it to my wishlist (yeah, I stopped buying books months before I will have time to read them :) ). Today I saw an announcement on Facebook from…
Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott host the amazingly popular Retro Hour Podcast, as well as having awesome YouTube channels of their own. AJ and Joerg talk to them about how they do it, keeping retro fresh, and we trade some fun podcasting stories. (Interview starts at 24:50) https://scene.world/retrohour
UPDATE: April 9th – The price is now £1, which is still a good price for what it is. Just received my TPUG newsletter and was glad to see another great news. After the “The story of Commodore 64 in Pixels” giveaway we posted last month, Fusion Retro Books is back, now selling for £1 (USD 1.30) the Amiga counterpart:…
Get ready for all the fun of the fair as AMIGArama’s visits Bullfrog’s ideal vision of Theme Parks in this weeks show.
The Commodore 64 gaming scene continues its momentum into 2019 with the latest Psytronik Software release, The Age of Heroes, developed by Achim Vokers, Trevor Storey and Saul Cross, the team behind last year’s decisive sci-fi release Organism. Inspired by the classic arcade hit Rastan Saga, The Age of Heroes is a side scrolling hack n slash game, where your…
Arcade Game Designer or AGD is a well-known ZX Spectrum game engine developed by Jonathan Cauldwell that makes much easier the task to develop a game for the 8-bit computer. The proof of its vert smooth learning curve is the hundreds of games already developed using AGD. We here, on ViTNO, have posted news about many of them just to…
RetroGamerNation recently held its inaugural Gamers’ Choice Award for Amstrad CPC games released in 2018, allowing players to choose up to 3 of their favourite games from a list of 13 nominees. Held across multiple internet sites, including VITNO, the poll was able to garner 225 vote submissions to allow a broad spectrum of views to be expressed. Well the…
This month, the C64 demoscene had 17 new demos released, including one-file demos e full demos. After watching all of them, I came up with my eight favourite ones, following my taste as a guide. The best one is OMG got Balls! by OMG, followed by Monomania by Offence, with excellent effects, colourful graphics and superb chiptunes. Both were released…
Could this be the longest named arcade game ever created? All part of the B-Movie sci fi fun in this weeks AMIGArama!
Bitmap Soft, a newly established software house focusing on games for vintage computer systems, are excited to announce that their debut physical release will be Chronicles of Nanako – featuring remastered versions of Mojon Twins classic games, Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle and Nanako Descends to Hell. Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle has Nanako set off on a…
