Category: Computers

Retro gaming ensures its presence at Brazil Game Show 2019, and ViTNO was there to witness!

This year, my annual trip to Brazil coincided with the time when the biggest game show in Latin America takes place: Brazil Game Show. This year’s edition had more than 300,000 people walking the aisles, checking the 400 booths featuring giant players like YouTube, Facebook Games, Epic Games, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and many others. Although I like and play games…

Psytronik and Remute are running an all-C64 game bundle sale (You could get them for free if you read this article!)

Psytronik and Remute are collaborating in a Commodore 64 game bundle, featuring 8 games by Psytronik and a Remute music EP which can be played on a C64! Similar to Humble Bundle sales, the Groupees bundle lets the buyer name the price, starting at US$3.99. The majority of the sales go to Psytronik, therefore buying this bundle the user supports…

TheC64 – Additional Photos of Prototype revealed

Retro Games Limited has posted additional photos of TheC64 prototype model current undergoing testing on TheC64 Facebook page. Following the small video reveal of the unit under some basic testing, backers were keen to see what ports TheC64 has on its side and rear. While these picture are not of the models in production right now, Retro Games Limited stated…

Two new adventure games ported to the Commodore Plus/4 (also available for many other computers!)

Stefan Vogt (@8bit_era on Twitter) has two text-adventure games (with nice graphics!) available for a while for the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. The games are Hibernated 1 and Eight Feet Under (an add-on for the former). If all that wasn’t enough, Stefan has announced yesterday that he ported the game for yet another…

Mega65 Puts Call Out for Donations

The development team behind the Mega65 are looking to raise €66,000 for steel moulds that will allow for the production of the machine at more reasonable prices. The Mega65 is slated to be an open sourced FPGA based 8-bit computer with Commodore 64 and Commodore 65 compatibility. It is claimed that the machine will run at 50 times the speed…

Bruce Lee RX for ZX Spectrum Released!

Bruce Lee is a video game designed by Ron J. Fortier, with graphics by Kelly Day and music by John A. Fitzpatrick. Originally developed for the Atari 8-bit, the game was published in 1984 by Datasoft, along with ports for the Apple II, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Bruce Lee RX by Allan Turvey is a graphical update…

Monty on the Run conversion to be released for the Atari XL/XE

The Atariage user “Philsan” has announced a new game for the Atari 8-bit: Monty on the Run! The game consists of a conversion from the 16Kb version released for the Commodore Plus/4 by Gremlin Graphics in 1986. Based on the screenshots, the people behind the conversion did an incredible job with the graphics. Hopefully, the gameplay is as fun as…

Your vintage computer / console collection speaks for you

By reading this, most likely you have a thing for vintage computing and gaming, as well as being the owner of either a small or big collection of vintage technology. But have you ever thought of why do you still keep that Gameboy in your drawer since your childhood? Why do you miss your little Speccy and can’t forgive yourself…

Iceblox Plus (C64) Gets Physical Release

Psytronik Software is proud to present Icebox Plus, a C64 game by Karl Hörnell, who  produced C64 classics like Clean Up Service, Fungus and Velocipede.  Iceblox Plus is a Pengo style game that sees you control Pixel Pete with  the aim to collect gold coins trapped in ice.  You can push ice blocks around to snuff out the fire monsters…

Bitmap Soft looks to expand the Retro Publishing scene

Bitmap Soft is looking to be the next ‘big player’ in the software publishing space for vintage home computers with the launch of two cassette format debut titles – All Hallows (ZX Specrum) and Chronicles of Nanako (Amstrad CPC). Established earlier this year by Darren Doyle and Jamie Battison, Bitmap Soft will be specialising as a software house publishing new…