Category: Computers
It’s hard to believe that Mayhem in Monsterland was released almost 25 years ago. It has been heralded as the definitive platformer for the Commodore 64 in terms of both gameplay and technical achievement that pushed the ‘old breadbin’ to do things it was not supposed to do. It was considered to be the great last hurrah for the C64,…
Beta 4a of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been just been released today. For more information about the game, check through our older posts and the EAB thread link below. Here’s another update – Beta 4A. In this build I’ve made a huge change and added memory management to the game. The game still…
Cogitare Computing is pleased to announce the release of Counterweight Kate for the Commodore 64. Counterweight Kate sees you take on the role of Kate who wakes up one night to find that her toys have come alive and found themselves in a bit of trouble. So its up to you to put on your bike helmet and set off…
A1200.net, the team behind the Amiga 1200 casing Kickstarter are back again with another crowd funder for a new compatible case for the Amiga 500 & Amiga 500 Plus. Currently the IndieGoGo campaign is on $32,055 USD of a $155,000 fixed goal. This sounds like a lot to achieve, but the guys did it before and there is no reason to…
JMMReview over on YouTube has recently shared an interesting video showing us how to play more than one game from USB stick on the C64Mini. Now before you get too excited, it’s not what you think, currently there’s still no official firmware update, that allows more than one .d64 file on the usb stick. However, this is a neat little…
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (‘which certainly was not here before’, said Alice) and…
Henrique Olifiers has provided backers of the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter with an update on the project, unfortunately disclosing some frustrating news. The company that was going to produce the plastic keyboard casing for the Next has inexplicably dropped the project leaving the Next project team to source an alternate supplier. Despite the setback, Olifiers confirmed that the team are…
My project to easily change the startup text and colors for the Commodore 64
MSXdev’18 deadline is February 14th, 2019, but the competition has already received its first entry: Burn Us. Burn Us by Carambalan Studios is a strategy/platform game targeting the MSX with 32kb of RAM. The game proposition is quite “weird”. You are a masochist part of a cult called “The Sect Givemehard” and your goal in the game is to burn yourself…
Team Rusty Pixels has released a new scroll demo for the ZX Spectrum Next: ScrollNutter. If you are a coder, you will be happy to know that all the source code is included! Releasing the source of this demo, Jim Bagley and the Rusty Pixels team hope that anyone looking into to developing on the ZX Spectrum Next will be…
