Category: Computers

Game competition MSXDev’18 in on and celebrating its 15th anniversary!

MSX is not well known in North America but is very popular in Japan, Europe, and Brazil. The hardware of the 1st generation is very similar to the Colecovision, and the games present great graphics and sound. To increase awareness of the platform as well as to bring new homebrew games, MSXDev organizers a competition every year and the results…

Latest Updates from Vinny at C64 Endings Website

Have you ever wondered what delights are waiting for you at the end of your favourite Commodore 64 game? Is there a game that you have spent an AGE trying to complete, but you just can’t manage to reach the end? Well stress no more as the C64endings Team are here to reveal all! Vinny Mainolfi has been cataloguing Commodore…

VirtualC64 Emulator Updated to Version 1.8

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of VirtualC64. VirtualC64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Mac OS X. New in Version 1.8 The Keyboard Manager has been reworked. In the keyboard menu, you can now choose between symbolic and position-based assignment. When using symbolic key assignment, the emulator tries to map a pressed key using its ASCII representation. Up…

Latest C64 Updates from Richard Bayliss, The New Dimension Website (TND)

Latest downloads over at The New Dimension are as follows: STARFYSH SPRITE DEMO RELEASED Contributor’s Release: Von Helzing by Christian Siege MIX BOX #6 Cruiser X-79 NEW GAME RELEASE: Star Toast by T.N.D Games NEW GAME RELEASE: Quad Core C64 by T.N.D Games SEUCK COMPO: Entry #1 – The Last Hugger by TND Games SEUCK COMPO 2018: Entry #2 –…

C64 Studio Version 5.6 Released

C64Studio 5.6 has been released, lot’s of new features have been added and fixed, see below. New Features Fix: Macro source info was using file name at calling location, not of the macro source location Fix: Fixed loading bug in ValueTableEditor, table with values was refilled but automatically cleared when loading tables without formula Add: making !media accept startindex/count optionally…

Amiga Ireland Podcast Episode 12.1, Łukasz Kucharuk Interview

Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. Episode 12.1, Łukasz Kucharuk interview is now available to listen and download. Download: Amiga-Ireland-S01E12.1-Luke-Kucharuk.mp3 Website: amigausers.ie

Latest Amiga WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2018-03-17. 2018-03-17 new: Megademo 4 (Kefrens & 7up Crew) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2018-03-16 new: Megademo 5 (Kefrens) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2018-03-12 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) added quit key and intro skip to the OCS version of…

Roust! ZX81 Birthday Edition by Allan Turvey

A few days ago, Allan Turvey kindly sent me over the “ZX81 Birthday Edition” of his awesome ZX Spectrum game Roust. Roust is a ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. You can read more about Allan’s game in our previous posts here. The new birthday edition, is pretty much the same game, except it’s been skinned over…

New Bomb Jack Amiga Remake, Bomb Jack Beer Edition, Beta 3 Released!

Beta 3 of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been just been released today. For more information check through our older posts about the game here. Download: bombjack_beta_3.adf Previous Posts: Bomb Jack Beer Edition

Retro Revisited: Superfrog (Amiga)

By 1993, the Commodore Amiga was going through something of belated mid-life crisis. Though once a technical marvel of the computing world, Commodore had failed to invest or innovate in the Amiga’s hardware to any significant degree. Although the A1200 and AGA chipset had launched the previous year, the majority of the Amiga user-base was still using A500 or A600…