Category: Computers
Announced by the Reset Magazine folks and Ausretrogamer website, the new 2018 Reset64 game code competition is on and the theme is “craptastic”. To make sure you are not thinking that it means, only crappy games allowed, Ausretrogamer has the perfect explanation: It certainly doesn’t mean crap, although it can! Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and…
Mr. Do! is an arcade game created by Universal in 1982. Similar to Namco’s Dig Dug, Mr. Do! was very popular and was also released on other systems, such as the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Apple II. It is the first game in the Mr. Do series, and was released both as a standalone game and also as…
Ultimate 64 is an FPGA-based Commodore 64 implementation that also includes the Ultimate-II+ built-in and has support for real SID chips (two of them!). For the joy of any C64 enthusiast (at least the ones that can understand and accept the FPGA solutions!), Gideon Zweiitzer has published some pictures of the assembly line that is building the first one hundred…
Graeme Cowie contacted me through Facebook just now, to let me know that beta 1 of his Amiga Bomb Jack remake has been released! We have been following the game closely with previous News posts here and here. Quick update to say I’ve updated the Bomb Jack Beer Edition, it’s to the point now that it is good enough for…
Alec Foster recently wrote a fantastic new article, Remembering the Commodore Plus/4. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend doing so, especially if you love the Plus/4 as much as I do! Today I would like to keep the Plus/4 vibe going, with a fantastic new Homebrew title, which completely took me by surprise! The game is called…
Among the many studios to emerge during the rise of the 1980s ‘Britsoft’ development scene, System 3 was was one most creative and ambitious. Often excelling in the realms of creativity and technical excellence, many of their games felt as if they were pushing the envelope in terms of what gamers could expect from computer games of the day. In…
Good News, remember we gave you exclusive heads up on the new Arkanoid clone for the ZX Spectrum Next called Nextoid? Well Lampros Potamianos announced today that the game download will be available very soon! V1.0 of Nextoid! is in the new TBBLUE distribution that will be uploaded soon! Definitely an Arkanoid clone, but I like to see it as…
As a backer of the ZX Spectrum Next board and also the ZX Spectrum Cased version, I was very excited to receive a new backers email in my inbox this morning from the Next team. News about new games, apps, box design, upcoming firmware and more! The Box Mike has been relentlessly pushing the box forward, with the design and…
An old Adventure game called “Murdlok” for the Commodore 64 has been recovered by Michael Steil (mist). Apparently the game from 1986 never saw an official release. Originally written in German by Peter Hempel, Murdlok has received a full English translation by Lisa Brodner and Michael Steil. Not much else is known about the game. We are keeping a close…
In the first of a series of articles, we’ll take a trip down memory lane as I take you through some of the computing and gaming experiences of childhood, taking in the 8-bit scene, the Commodore Amiga and much more! In this issue, I’ll be taking look at my earliest computing experiences with the Commodore Plus/4! Many people get asked…
