Category: Computers

The making of Baba’s Palace – 2017 CPCRetroDev Winners tell the story behind the game development

Baba’s Palace won the last edition of #CPCRetroDev and the victory was well deserved. If you play the game (you gonna play it!), it is fair to say that if it had been released in the 80’s, Rafa Castillo and John McKlain would be swimming in a pool of money because the game would’ve sold a lot! When playing the game,…

A Personal History of Computing: Remembering the Commodore Amiga

In the third in a series articles, I hope you’ll join me on this trip down memory lane as I look back at the Commodore Amiga, a truly revolutionary computer in every sense of the word. Of all the computers and video game systems that I’ve owned over the years, it is undoubtedly the Amiga that I consider my favourite,…

The 13th Doll: A spiritual sequel to The 7th Guest brought to life in time for Halloween 2018!

The corpse of the interactive movie is set to be resurrected in suitably gruesome style this Halloween when Attic Door Productions aims to release it’s new crowd-funded game, The 13th Doll. Although not strictly a true sequel, the developer has licensed the rights to that of developer Trilobyte’s classic mid-90’s interactive CD-ROM title, The 7th Guest. For those unfamiliar, The 7th…

Inviyya Amiga Shoot’em Up Demo Released!

Early February I shared some News about an upcoming Amiga Shoot’em Up called Inviyya by Tigerskunk. A demo of the game was released for Revision 2018, which came 4th place. You can now download the demo for yourself and have a play. The game should run happily on an Amiga 500 OCS/ECS with at least 1 mb of RAM, Kickstart…

Kev Mcg’s Teases His New AGD Speccy Game, Savage Princess

Kev Mcg over on the AGD Facebook Group, recently shared another teaser of his upcoming Speccy game titled “Savage Princess”. Rather than a cutesy approach, Kev has chosen deep blues, depicting a dark and cold dungeon in which the main character, a beautiful princess, casts off her shackles, and begins to plan her escape route. This will be no easy…

C64 Mini Hacks by Vinny Mainolfi (aka Freeze64)

Did you know that one of TheC64 Mini’s current limitations is that it assumes that the joystick is connected to port two? This means that while you can load up great titles like Bruce Lee, Ghostbusters and HERO on the Mini, there is no way to control the game play as they all expect the joystick to be in port…

CPUs: The More the Merrier? – RetroChallenge 2018/04 – Update #3

You know those jokes that begin “You might be a redneck if you”? Here’s a Jack Tramiel version: “You might be in Commodore marketing if your boss told you to sell more CPUs, so you had the engineers cram 2-3 in every computer.” Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week… Despite some confusing early names, the Commodore B-series is not, in…

Saberman Teases Update Video of OPenFire For Amiga!

We often feature Saberman’s gameplay videos in our News posts. He’s very quick at finding new upcoming games and sharing the News with the community. Whilst doing my daily browse of his video collection, I came across a video of OpenFire, which is a work in progress game for the Amiga. OpenFire is by KaiN (Code), Selur and Softiron (GFX),…

Rescuing Orc, Commodore 64, ViTNO Game Review

Are you drawn to games with cute colorful retro graphics and a seemingly basic game play premise only to find yourself in damnation where you curse the developer’s name under your breath as you scream out your frustration as to the unfairness of what plays out on screen? If so, then usebox.net and poly.play have developed and released a game…

Reidrac’s Dawn of Kernel promises to be one slick shoot ’em up for Amstrad CPC fans!

Amstrad CPC fans will soon have cause to celebrate since we learned that  Juan J. Martinez (Reidrac) is hard at work on his latest project, The Dawn of Kernel, along with artistic contributions from Dylan Barry (loading and title screens). Set in the reaches of outer space on planet K3E-NL, disaster strikes when the outbreak of a computer virus manages…