Category: Computers
The XeNTaX C64 group — along with Lotus Electronics ApS and Sombetzki’s Hub C64 — are currently working on a reproduction of the Sound Expander system. The new “FM-YAM” cartridge adds 9 channels of FM synthesis sound to your Commodore 64. Used in combination with the on-board SID, you get a total of 12 channels of glorious sound! The cart…
Saul Cross is a pioneering graphician and developer who is still active to this day. Andrew, AJ, and Joerg talk to him about what he’s been up to, and about his history in the scene. Website: http://scene.world/saulcross
I believe the last thing that comes to mind when thinking of game cartridges is a program made for the Color Basic. That is in fact based all in prejudice and John Linville (CoCocrew podcast) came to help destroy the wrong assumption that that is impossible. John wrote an article on his blog, Retro Tinker, explaining how to prepare a…
Immortal C64 Episode 74 – SPECIAL, Its C64 Month again! pre ep 40 tunes done with a real C64!. Track Listing : Track Number / Start Time / Artist / Track Name / Track Length 01 .. 0:00:34 – Michal Hoffman – Warmachine – 4:18 02 .. 0:04:57 – Thomas Detert – Clystron – 2:05 03 .. 0:07:07 – Steven…
Sunteam has released their first game for the ZX Spectrum 48K/128K. That Sinking Feeling has you take control of a cute little submarine who is tasked to gather treasure from the ruins of the planet Atlantis. You have no weapons, so you have to skillfully dodge all manner of hazards in your quest – from toxic bubbles to mines, as…
Arstechnica UK has published a 2-part article telling the complete story of the IBM PC. The first part was published back in June and the second and final part on July 31st. The massive 8000-word article goes deep in the history of the computer that, despite not being the most exciting and capable of its time, caused the demise of…
Blerk over at World of Spectrum forums has recently posted about a new turn-based space strategy game called Break/Space. The game was originally created for the ZX BASIC Game Jam and received good feedback albeit running a little on the slow side. Blerk has spent the last few weeks converting it to compile under Boriel’s ZX Basic. The end result…
Psytronik Software are known mostly for releasing tape and disks versions of Commodore games, while browsing the website as I do daily, I noticed for the 35th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum they are offering their very first ZX Spectrum tape release! ‘Robot 1 in … THE SHIP OF DOOM’ is now available to order for £6.99 over at Binary…
The Crash Annual 2018 Kickstarter smashed it’s goal target within a day! For those of you that aren’t so Speccy savvy, Crash was a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress. At time of writing the Kickstarter has reached…
We had a chat with our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64 recently and he has sent over some new exclusive News updates, regarding the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Below are the latest changes; Nicer running animation for Jack Some new platform chars Repaired Highscore input Game over display Repaired Jack/enemy positions on top platform row Turn animations…
