Category: Computers
Freeze64 issue 10 is now available for purchase. The 10th issue is also the 1-year anniversary one, and because of that, it brings some nice behind the scenes information about the fanzine, early designs, etc. It also brings among others great articles, the first part of an interview with the C64 developer and creator of games like Paradroid, Andrew Braybrook; a new guide showing…
While we are on the MSX topic, msx.org recently announced more News regarding the MSX2. “Who Dares Wins” by Retroforce will be available to purchase for 35€ at the 51st Barcelona MSX users meeting which is being held in Barcelona at centre “Jove la Fontana“, Spain on Saturday 17th of June. Following the meeting, next batches will be available through the…
Hot of the press News! from the awesome MSX website, msx.org! Retroworks team have decided to port the Action/Platformer “The Sword of IANNA” to MSX2! The game was originally planned for the ZX Spectrum (also in development). To play the game the requirements are as follows. MSX2 or higher and PSG sound. This isn’t just a straight port though, the graphics,…
The only upside of Radio Shack demise is the sales that happen to clear inventory. Following the store’s fire sales, the company has opened its vaults and is auctioning historical equipment and memorabilia through UBid Estate and Auctions. There are plenty of catalogs, paintings, posters, and of course retro computers. A quick glance at the list filtering by TRS-80 shows a…
Jim Bagley has released some new interesting News regarding info about game loading screens on the ZX Spectrum Next and a New Game! Jim wrote: A quick test to see what some new loading screens could look like :) these were just some ST loading screens quickly resized to 256×192 and put into Spectrum Next palette. Let me know what…
In Lumberjack Reloaded you are eh….. a lumberjack that has the task to cut the trees while avoiding to branches that are coming in your direction. The premise is simple but the video below shows a clever game with cute graphics and catchy soundtrack. The game is set to be released in July but you can pre-order it now for…
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…
