Category: Computers
Brandon Dominguez recently emailed over details of a new game for PC and Mac called Bebop and Tempo. Bebop and Tempo is a challenging retro arcade platforming game with a focus on skill and competition. Inspired by the many great games on NES, Bebop and Tempo has the music, art, and difficulty to match. Play through a variety of levels…
Arseniy recently sent us an email over about his puzzle game for pc called Orbox C. Orbox C is a puzzle game that requires use of logic. It enhances simple mechanic with special elements and missions that interact in different ways. The game does not confuse with complexity and too much blocks on the field. Instead it has cleverly made levels with…
Back in February PVM released a C64 Music Collection called ‘Argentine Songbook Vol. 1’. This awesome chipdisk contains nine 8bit renditions of Argentinian music tracks in various different genres. Full source code is available for download and also a full tutorial in both English and Spanish. Download: pvm-asb1.zip Full Source Code: chipdisk-nac-vol.1 Tutorial English: Making a Chipdisk Tutorial Spanish: Haciendo un Chipdisk Latest Releases: Do Ya Wanna Funk?, Helicoid…
ZX Spectrum Next is probably the most anticipated modern take of a retro computer to date. The first ZX Vega had a huge impact, but the fact it was a gaming machine only, it didn’t attract the average retro enthusiast that wanted to do more than simply play games. The last word is that the ZX Spectrum Next campaign is under…
LWTOOLS is a set of cross-development tools for the Motorola 6809 and Hitachi 6309 microprocessors. It supports assembling to raw binaries, CoCo LOADM binaries, and a proprietary object file format for later linking. It also supports macros and file inclusion among other things. The version 4.14 has been released bringing the following changes, including explanations from the author: The “forwardrefmax”…
Rufus over on Lemon 64 Forums has posted about his new upcoming C64 Giana Hack called Matteo’s Land. The Great Giana Sisters is a 1987 platform game developed by Time Warp Productions and published by Rainbow Arts. This German video game is known for its controversial production history, its similarities to the famous Nintendo platform game Super Mario Bros., and…
Sunteam has released a new ZX Spectrum styled shoot ’em up for Windows. Feeling like a cross between Space Invaders and Missile Command, you have to protect pods from enemy fire, by either destroying the enemies before they can shoot, or intercepting their bullets with your seemingly invincible ship (which slowly follows the horizontal position of your targetting cursor). The…
The SD-BOX is a cartridge with an SD card interface for the Commodore 64. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Improvements for the SID player (RSID, PSID, title, author and publisher), Datassette, disk-drive, cartridge restart and an update for the manual. Website: http://www.c64.com.pl Links: Source
The Commodore 64 emulator Vice has been updated to version 3.1. VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, Syllable or Mac OS X machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C64DTV, the C128, the VIC20, practically all PET models,…
The Retro Hour is a popular English Retro Gaming Podcast run by Dan Wood, Ravi Abbot, Joe Fox and Paul Kitching. The guys have interviewed various famous people in the Retro Gaming Scene, including big names such as Rob Hewson, Jonathan Cauldwell, The Oliver Twins and Jim Bagley. This week the guys secured an interview with the famous Psycho of Budbrain. Budbrain is the…
