Category: Computers

Meteor Wave, A New Lightpen Game by tokra for the Vic-20!

An unusual and refreshing change to see a game based on destruction of the earth! The game runs on unexpanded PAL VIC-20 with Lightpen! The lightpen needs a trigger (joy left) and calibration inside the program may be needed. You will also need a CRT-display as lightpens will not work with modern TFTs. If you don’t have a light pen,…

Floppy Days 69, The Commodore Vic-20, History with Michael Tomczyk, Neil Harris, Brian Bagnall

A new episode of Floppy Days Podcast is now available. In this episode; New Acquisitions NADSBox – http://www.club100.org/catalog.html “Now the Chips Are Down: The BBC Micro (Platform Studies)” Hardcover by Alison Gazzard – http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262034034/?tag=flodaypod-20 Compute’s Gazette – https://archive.org/details/compute-gazette “33 challenging computer games for TRS-80/Apple/PET Paperback” by David Chance – https://www.amazon.com/challenging-computer-games-TRS-80-Apple/dp/0830612750 “Atari Playground” by Fred D’Ignazio – https://www.amazon.com/Atari-playground-Fred-DIgnazio/dp/0810457709 Fred D’Ignazio Interview…

Cask Jumper, Vic-20 Motorbike Game Found & Released After 30 Years!

Cask Jumper is a game created by tmy10100 from Vic-20 Denial Forums. He wrote the game together with a friend over 30 years ago! The game involves jumping over casks with a motorbike. You must be careful not to drive too fast and also not too slow, if you want to land exactly on the ramp without crashing. You have 5…

Latest Amiga WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2017-02-07. 2017-02-07 new: Black Energy (Hardline) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2017-01-31 new: Atmospherical Melodies (Carnage) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2017-01-30 improved: Super Stardust (Bloodhouse) slave rewritten, fix a crash in warp 1, supports CD³² joypad buttons, snoopbug fixed, unlimited…

$B, VIC-20 Port of Gabriele Cirulli’s Puzzle Game 2048

$B is a minimalist port of the game 2048 for unexpanded VIC-20. WASD to move, R to restart. Source is included in the zip. Download: $b.zip Original Game: http://git.io/2048 Source: Vic-20 Denial

WinUAE 3.4.1 beta 01, Toni Begins New Changes for 2017!

After a well deserved break, Toni is back again with a new Beta version of WinUAE. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the…

Partial Walkthrough for Monty Mole and the Temple of Lost Souls

For those of you struggling with the early stages of the game….practice makes perfect :) …but also….heres a little bit of help.

The story of Amstrad CPC by ‘Nostalgia Nerd’

Peter Leigh has released a 2-video special about the Amstrad CPC. The 1-hour long video is available on Nostalgia Nerd YouTube channel and tells a detailed story of the origins of Amstrad and how the iconic Amstrad CPC came to be. If you are from one of the countries where Amstrad sold the CPC, it is a great opportunity to revive the…

Fuse ‘ZX Spectrum’ Emulator version 1.3.3 has been released

If you are looking for a way to play “Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls”, you have plenty of choices, including the excellent Fuse emulator, available for Linux, MacOs and Windows. The new version brings: Added support for the hidden MEMPTR register Mark new disks as needing to be saved Show more information on disk modification status in menus…

Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls Map Released!

Well I guess you are all playing Andy Johns new Speccy Homebrew game “Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls” by now. We have some good news for you this evening, Andy has sent over a full map of the game which is in .png format. We will be posting a full review soon, stay tuned! :) Download: Monty Map…