Category: Computers
One of the games available in the New Year Disc 2020 released by Ralf “PPs” Patschke is Runner Bear, an infinite runner game for the Atari XL/XE with at least 48K of RAM. Developed by Paul “Playsoft” Lay, Darryl Guenther y Rob Schlort, Runner Bear presents colourful Mario-like graphics with a very well designed parallax scrolling effect, giving depth to…
Although it is not unseen to have games developed in a short period of time, it is easy to make a really good game in less than one week. One game that falls in that category is Yazzie, developed by Denis Grachev for the competition Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019, which happened at the beginning of last month. Yazzie is…
The already traditional New Year Disc compilation just released its 14th edition, containing a plethora of good for the Atari 8-bit enthusiast. In the 6-disk compilation made by Ralf “PPs” Patschke you will find two games and several graphics and intros. The compilation contains works by Filippo “Philsan” Santellocco, Michal “Miker” Szpilowski, Mario “eMKay” Krix, Pawel “Sikor” Sikorski, Steve ”…
It’s been roughly four months since our last update on Bomb Jack DX, a Bomb Jack Arcade fan remake for the Commodore 64. We are all still waiting patiently for a final release. Retrofan has shared News on Beta 7, which shows us various new improvements and some other lovely additions, including: Complete new (more aggressive) AI for flying saucer…
Gabriele Gorla from GGLabs has released a new terminal application for the Commodore 64. GGLabs Terminal v0.18 emulates a VT100 terminal displaying 80 columns on a Commodore 64. It requires a UART cartridge with the 6551 chip, like GGLab’s own GLINK232T and the GLINK232 UART cartridges. Besides their own cartridges, there are many variants, most of them are clones of…
If you have in your New Year’s resolution list to finally learn assembler for the Atari but you have no idea from where to start, you are lucky! Atari Projects website has published a new quick tutorial where it teaches how to compile and run a small program written in 6502 Assembly for the Atari 8-bit computers. Written by Jason…
Kick-Off II is one of the most difficult football (or soccer, if you’re NTSC) games to master. Oliver Stender and Frank Fuhrmann have done just that, though, and their skill has lead to them being two of the highest ranked players to take part in the Kick-Off II World Cup — championships that are still being held today. AJ and…
We announced a while ago that Bitnamic Software has recently (re)released a ZX-81 game called Treasure Quest (with the original title “Em busca dos tesouros” em Portuguese which would translate to “In the search of the treasures”). The game was developed by Tadeu Curinga da Silva when he was 16 years old. The new version is an update from the…
Joe Blob is a small game created by Ronan McEvoy in 1989 that was never officially released until now. Felipe Veiga, Pedro Pimenta, Mario Viegas, and Andre Leao, all members of the Espectroteam and also Planeta Sinclair website got together and with the help of Andy Green, have created a remastered version of Joe Blob to be included in Woot!…
The hottest retro gaming related product for the 2019 Christmas period, THEC64 has finally arrived with the hope that it can satisfy the C64 enthusiasts insatiable need to provide a modern day retro computing solution without sacrificing too much of what made the Commodore 64 great. The successor to the 2018 released THEC64 Mini, THEC64 is a C64/VIC20 emulator presented…
