Category: Computers
We covered the original release of Keith Sear’s hectic retro shooter for the Amstrad CPC back in December 2016, but our friends over at Planet Sinclair spotted that a conversion for the ZX Spectrum now appears to be in works. A new announcement on the game’s official website confirms this fact, promising to deliver an updated version of the game…
Daniele Spadoni is an independent filmmaker and director living in Ferrara, north of Italy. He has made a good number of video productions, making some of them available on YouTube. A few days ago, Daniele reached us through our Facebook page, linking some video with titles that caught my attention right away. Superfrog, Manic Mansion, and Secret of Monkey Island are a…
Today, we’re pleased to announce yet another update for our ever-growing homebrew gaming section. With 40 new entries, update 5 has proven to be the biggest yet, and is packed full of exciting titles for you to enjoy. As usual, you can find the games for your desired system by accessing the ‘Homebrew Database’ underneath the site banner. Don’t forget…
The 2018 Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) competition is currently underway, organised by The New Dimension (headed by Richard Bayliss) who are known for producing a library of freeware games for the Commodore 64. The current iteration of the SEUCK competition has been running for a couple of months now with three entrants (The Last Hugger, Atom Heart & Valkyrie…
The Commodore 64 gaming scene was provided with a pleasant surprise when, in late March 2018, Alexander Martinelle from Cogitare Computing announced that he was about to release a unique style platform game titled Counterweight Kate. In Counterweight Kate, you take on the role of a little girl (Kate) who wakes up one night to find that her toys have…
WebMSX is a fully featured MSX emulator that supports nine generic MSX machines using both PAL and NTSC. Developed using Javascript/HTML5, the emulator runs on any platform, and it was tested in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. A new version 5.0 was made available recently with the following features: NetPlay! Connect several users on the same Virtual MSX machine over the…
“Don’t copy that floppy”. Those who followed this advice issued by the Software Publishers Association were certainly in the minority, and the supporting music video didn’t exactly help the cause. Here in the UK it was the full page adverts from FAST (Federation Against Software Theft) who tried to scare us into binning any pirated software and grass up our…
Amstrad CPC owners who are fans of platform shoot’em up games likes Turrican and Metroid, may have been looking at Steel Ranger for the C64 in envy over the past few months wondering when they would get to receive an equivalent quality title for their beloved machine. Well ESP Soft has provided Amstrad owners with a great response in the…
Since it’s launch at the beginning of April 2018, our homebrew gaming database has gone from strength to strength with almost 100 titles available online for our community and site visitors to download. However, the best is yet to come, and retro gaming fans will be pleased to know that our team has been busy sourcing yet more of the…
Today I have some exciting Gaming News regarding the ZX Spectrum Next. You may already be aware that Dungeonette by Adrian Cummings has been released. I secured my copy a few days ago and I must say it is a fantastic game – highly recommend that you purchase it! You can still play the game even without a ZX Spectrum Next…
