Category: Computers
It was announced by its developer, Ghislain de Blois, that his new game for the VIC-20, Realms of Quest V is under development and he hopes to finish it soon. The game looks pretty ambitious for the VIC-20, but based on the developer’s blog posts, it seems to be coming along well. On his words: 32K RAM expansion required (lesser expansion modes…
I believe the ZX Spectrum Next made me more aware of all things Speccy as I am not myself what you could call a “Spectrum guy”. I first learned to program BASIC in a TK-82C (ZX-81 Clone) but I was never the owner of any Sinclair machine. I am, however, a big fan of these little marvels. I already own…
Gamasutra website has released from its Vault a presentation from this years’ Game Development Conference (GDC) with nothing less than Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley’s postmortem of Civilization. Very common in the game industry (and many others as well), the postmortem is an evaluation of a certain game development process, analyzing what went right and what went wrong, how it should’ve…
It is not always from the freshest news that you find something interesting. I’ve just stumbled today on this post on Kotaku’s website from 2014 talking about some radio shows from the 80’s that would provide downloadable content to the listeners. The principle was simple. If you can “play” a software from your cassette and the computer loads it, why not sending…
We’ve been publishing many posts about the MEGA65, the FPGA-based Commodore 65 that is in development for the past 2 years or so. Today, there is a big update on the development blog, showing the latest PCB being tested, loading the C65 firmware, and being tested with an authentic C65 keyboard! It is also nice to see Paul going down the…
With all the current ZX Spectrum Next hype, we thought we would highlight some new (and old) games that have recently surfaced online. We have a few nice ones to show you today.. Space Junk by Miguetelo Art (music by David Saphier), Zabij Ducha (Kill Ghost) by Ralf, Excalibur and Taxi Driver by QIS, Zelda by Team Zelda ZX, Zelda…
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga chiptunes music disk, titled “A Pain In The Chip”. All tracks were created by Aaron White, CiA Ocean logo is by Retrograde of CiA Group. (with a few edits by Kitty for this Release). Download from the link below and crank up the tunes! :) Download: pain_in_the_chip.adf (A1200) Twitter: @aaronub4t
MSX Center is a new website dedicated to the (as you would guess) MSX line of computers. As stated by the website “About” page, MSX Center’s purpose is to promote the usage of MSX computers, support developers of new software and hardware, and expand the user community. Behind the new site, we have Javi Lavandeira is well-known from his blog series…
First of all, if you are wondering about what is a game jam, “it is a gathering of people for the purpose of planning, designing, and creating one or more games within a short span of time…”. With that out of the way, today a ZX Spectrum game jam has started as we announced before. During the next 13 days,…
Blake Patterson has published a blog post and a demo video about a new device that a lot of people in our retro community have been talking about: the Wifi232, an inexpensive device that lets you BBS the way it was meant to be done, on hardware from the golden age of the Bulletin Board System. Since the device connects…
