Category: Computers
After escaping from the planet Tantalus, during the trip your ship was damaged by “The Void”. You must now take on a greater threat, the Space Pirates! Way back in October 2016 we gave you the heads up on an awesome game from Cthonian Godkiller’s (Apsis) for the ZX Spectrum 128 called Harbinger Convergence. Harbinger Convergence is a Sci-fi Arcade Adventure…
You may recognise the name Paul Koller, he is responsible for the awesome C64 game Luftrauserz. Over on Twitter, one of our many followers of @CommodoreBlog contacted us today and shared two teaser tweets by Paul. My #c64 port of Spelunky is coming along rather nicely, if I may say so… @mossmouth pic.twitter.com/7vr4VoU2kl — Paul Koller (@paulko64) January 25, 2018…
Unfortunately the weekend is nearly over and as we creep towards another Monday morning, with sad thoughts of going back to work, Kitty is here to cheer you up with more awesome Retro News! So what have we got for you this evening? ZX Spectrum again! :-) This one is by David Clarke and he has teased a new sizzling…
The amount of ZX Spectrum releases over this weekend has been crazy, and here we are again with another new Speccy game! “Mike, the guitar” is a new AGD game by Sebastian Braunert. Mike, the little guitar, has a big wish: To play a solo! His favourite band is Nirvana, so he wants to perform “Smells like teen spirit“! But…
Balloon Fight is an action video game developed by Nintendo. The original 1984 arcade version was released for the Nintendo VS. System as Vs. Balloon Fight, and its Nintendo Entertainment System counterpart was internationally released in 1986. The game play is similar to the 1982 game Joust from Williams Electronics. My fondest memories of Balloon fight was on the original…
Psytronik Software has announced two new C64 games for pre-order, Steel Ranger and Pains ‘n’ Aches – A Knight ‘n’ Grail Adventure. Steel ranger is an action-packed run & gun arcade-adventure. Take control of a cybernetic hero and explore a massive world filled with traps, enemies and huge boss encounters. If you liked Hessian you are going to love Steel…
ZXombies, Dead Flesh, is a new flick-screen action survival horror inspired by The Walking Dead. You are a lone soldier left from your squad in a city swarming with the undead, after the zombie apocalypse. You’ll have to escort the few remaining survivors between safe-houses, to reach safety east of the city. Major Derring awakes with concussion. He drags himself…
Friday seems to be the day for lot’s of Speccy releases, as we see yet another new game appear on the WOS Forums. Jet Set 40-40 is a new redesign version of the classic Jet Set Willy game by Matthew Smith. With a lot of similarities to the original Jet Set Willy Map, avid Speccy fans will feel right at…
Mighty Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-’em-up released in 1993 for the NES just got a ZX Spectrum port! This game is a spinoff of the arcade Final Fight, but with a different art style, with all characters following the Chibi style (big heads and childish bodies). Developed by the Alexander Udotov (Sanchez), with graphics by Eugene Rogulin (ER), and music…
Allen Huffman is graciously sharing ways to speed up programs written for the family of Microsoft BASIC interpreters common on personal computers of the time that interests us, including the various flavors of Color BASIC. These ways all boil down to Modify your code to work around the limitations the BASIC interpreter inherited from its origins on systems with extremely…
