Category: Computers

Pixelglass Games releases Worthy, a new game for OCS Amigas!

They say that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, a mantra that Pixelglass Games has taken to heart in Worthy, it’s newest game just released for OCS Amiga computers! The objective of the game is to guide your would-be Romeo around a series of mazes, collecting as many gems as possible. Only by filling your pockets with these precious gems…

Retro Revisited: MYTH – History in the Making (C64)

Having achieved critical success with The Last Ninja and it’s subsequent sequel in 1987 and 1988 respectively, System 3 had developed a formidable reputation as one of the top software houses in 80’s Britain. No longer simply just the publisher of relatively obscure budget titles, the studio had soon become developer and producer to some of the biggest and best…

2018 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition Preview

The 2018 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition deadline is just around the corner, and nothing less than 20 contestants have already submitted their games. Since we are all very busy keeping real life and retro gaming in balance, wouldn’t be great if there is a good summary somewhere giving you a quick overview of all of them? Thankfully, Ausretrogamer thought the…

Amiga Ireland Podcast, Series 2, Episode 3, Commodore Power!

Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. This episode contains the following: MilkyTracker for MorphOS A500 replacement case campaign on IndieGoGo Amiga Vampire cards K1208 cards near completion EAB Game coding competition Open X-COM for MorphOS Barbarian+ enhanced for Amiga Provisional Meetup for Scottish Amiga users 4th August in Glasgow And much more! Listen:…

Exploring the Amiga – Assembler Programming Overview

Leonardo Giordani has published since late May a 3-part series with an overview of the Amiga machine language programming. Giordani objective while writing the article was, in his own words, not intended to be a complete tutorial about Amiga ML programming, but a collection of his notes while exploring the machine architecture. Don’t let this statement dissuade you, because the…

What is Love? Amiga Remix Disk by Aaron White Released!

Aaron White recently sent over another Amiga music disk. Another 90’s pop classic, “What is Love” by Haddaway. The song is recognizable by its refrain “What is love? Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me… no more” and was a No. 1 hit in 13 countries. If you was a teenager in the 90’s you will most certainly remember this…

New conversion of Toki hinted for the Amstrad CPC

Eagle-eyed forumites over at CPCWiki have spotted early signs that a conversion of TAD Corporation’s Toki could be set to receive a conversion to the Amstrad CPC. AmstradGPP, a duo of French developers, recently uploaded a series of images to their Twitter account to showcase progress that they have made on the game. According to the post, despite being amateur…

Penultimate+ cartridge for VIC-20 starts shipping

The Penultimate+ cartridge for VIC-20 is now ready to ship! The Future was 8-Bit has announced that the new VIC-20 RAM/ROM cart will begin shipping tomorrow. The Pen+ adds 3 to 35k RAM (selectable) to your VIC-20 and ships with over 70 ROMs, including the critically-acclaimed Cheese & Onion. The user interface has also been updated to look slicker and…

C256 Foenix Project – What could have succeeded the C128?

A new web site and forum has sprung up announcing a project to create a spiritual successor to the C64 and C128. Early specification details include: 65C816 CPU at 14MHz 4MB RAM (split between main / video) Custom graphics chip – code named VICKY – providing 640×480 with 256 colors Dual 6581 and dual YM3812 sound chips Local DMA and…

ZX Spectrum Next progress update – Box and case pictures!

Victor Trucco has posted an update on behalf of Henrique and I couldn’t be more excited! They have received the physical samples of the initial plastic injected case which needed some adjustments that were already applied to the moulds. From the pictures, the cases look amazing and exactly like I was hoping they would be. To help us feel the Next…