Category: Computers
Following a month of tantalising tweets, teases and promos, the crowdfunding campaign for Amiga Power – The Album with Attitude is now live on Kickstarter. Regular readers will know that we have something of a soft spot for Commodore and its groundbreaking multimedia machine, so we were rather excited when we had to chance to talk to Matthew Smith about…
Who said the VIC-20 doesn’t get the deserved love from the retro scene? To prove this is not true, DoubleSided Games has announced Fire, a new game for the computer. Fire is an arcade game that is set to be released in July 2019 where you play controlling firemen who have to rescue people from the burning houses. The publisher…
The Czech composer Adam J. Sporka has published For Ember, a new album with 18 chiptune songs composed using an Atari 800XL computer. Most of the tracks were composed by Sporka between 2009 and 2019, but the album also includes a chiptune version of Jan Valta’s People of the Land and chiptune version of The Wasteland Wailers’ Dare Master. The…
AMIGArama and Dizzy are on a quest to save poor Daisy from the evil King Troll, but just what will they find in this 16Bit remake of a older classic?
Inspired by many previous chess games like David Horne’s ZX81 1K Chess (672 bytes), Olivier Poudade’s BootChess (487 bytes), Óscar Toledo Nanochess (392 bytes) and others, Alex Garcia has released what is probably the smallest chess program ever made, with only 377 bytes! For you to have an idea what that means, this first paragraph alone contains 389 characters! Alex…
Looking back at the current generation gaming scene for the Amstrad CPC in 2018, it is hard to not be impressed by the vast range of quality titles for this great machine. Gone is the stigma of the platform being subject to quick and dirty ZX Spectrum ports, now replaced with games that are developed with care and passion to…
Clube MSX, the quarterly Brazilian printed magazine about the MSX line of computers starts this Wednesday, March 20th, to take pre-orders for the fourth issue. The first edition of 2019 is already available for purchase, with a discounted price, at the magazine’s official website. The shipment is planned to start as soon as March 28th. For international orders, please check…
An 8 Bit C64 classic gets the 16 Bit Amiga treatment in this weeks episode as Lorfarius takes on the villanous Cyber space pirates.
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, UK, has received, among others, a rare and valuable donation to be added to its collection. The ZX Spectrum prototype was donated by Kate and John Grant of Nine Tiles Inc. The company was responsible for writing the Sinclair BASIC for the ZX-80, ZX-81 and the Spectrum and kept this prototype all these…
BG Games Production is eagerly ramping up Amstrad enthusiasts’ anticipation of its impending full release of its port of the classic Amiga pinball simulator, Pinball Dreams. Development of Pinball Dreams for the Amstrad CPC is pretty much completed with the game at the final stages of testing. I was fortunate enough to have been granted a trial version of the…
