Category: Computers
The 4 Masters of Melody, the first game created by the Clube MSX magazine, is getting a well-deserved cartridge release. The launch will happen on December 7 and 8, at the MSX SP 2019, an event for MSX enthusiasts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The boxed version of the game brings small graphic enhancements, a printed manual (Portuguese and English) all…
I’ve been dedicating some of my time learning about Atari 8-bit programming mostly through old Atari books you can find all over the Internet and they are a very good source of information for sure! However, it is nice to see that there are some modern efforts to keep the subject fresh and up to date. One of the most…
R-Type was published in 1988 by Electric Dreams Software for the ZX Spectrum 48k, and they made an excellent job with it. However, due to the hardware and memory limitations, the game was released without music, which was a big part of its frantic gameplay. This weekend, a new mod for the classic game was released trying to close the…
Prince of Persia is probably one of my favourite games, and one of the most frustrating as well, mainly when you fall on those spikes after not getting the perfect timing for the jump. Although it was initially developed for the Apple ][, which shares the same CPU, the 6502, the game was never released for the Atari 8-bits. With…
For a number of years now, Commodore Amiga gaming enthusiasts have long been looking over at the Commodore 64 scene, envious of the volumes of new titles being released for the machine on an almost weekly basis But 2019 has been a watershed year for the Amiga. Not only has it seen a marked increase in the number of new…
This is the second part of the interview with Randy Linden, featured on the Retro Hour podcast episode 190. Read the first part here. Bleem! Retro Hour: Well, when did you get this kind of stroke of genius to run PlayStation games on the PC. How did that start? Randy Linden: I was just thinking one day about what to…
Introduction The awesome Retro Hour podcast, on its episode 190, featured a very long chat with Randy Linden, a seasoned developer who is responsible, among other things, to bring Dragon’s Lair to the Amiga, DOOM to the NES and also the creator of Bleem!, a PlayStation emulator for PC. I’ve found Randy so interesting to listen to, and his contribution…
Thomas Cherryhomes, the mind behind Irata.online, has announced that he and other contributors are working hard to bring to the Atari 8-bit computers a modern way to connect them online wirelessly. The following text is an excerpt from the post on Atariage, write by Thomas himself. The device, called #FujiNet (formerly known at #AtariWiFi) is a network adapter that attaches…
If you, like me, keep planning to learn assembler for the past 35-40 years, here is another chance. Amiga Game Dev is a website that aims to teach game development for the Amiga, using Assembler. You can probably think of the site as a supplement for the author’s YouTube videos published in the channel Graeme Cowie. So far, there are…
As a retro computer collector, I know (as my wife!) that space is the most concerning aspect when you get your hands on computers like the PET, the TRS-80 Model III and many other big and bulky ones. Thanks, ZX-81 to keep the footprint small! If you also face that challenge, maybe you would be happy to have a smaller…
