Category: Computers

Gabriele Amore Releases Two Donkey Kong Homebrew Games for the ZX Spectrum!

Donkey Kong Jr. is a 1982 arcade-style platform video game by Nintendo. It first appeared in Arcades, and, over the course of the 1980’s, was later released for a variety of platforms, most notably the Nintendo Entertainment System. Donkey Kong Jr. is the sequel to the video game Donkey Kong, which featured Mario as the hero and Junior’s father as the villain…

Coolbox, New Amstrad CPC Puzzle Game Written in Basic

Coolbox is a puzzle game in the vain of Block Dude the old calculator game. This game is completely written in Basic, no machine code or loaded files. It has multicoloured sprites, scrolling and in game music by Mr Lou. Download: Coolbox.zip Source: cpcwiki.eu

Get The Cash!, New Amstrad Game Written in Hisoft Pascal

Get The Cash is a simple though playful fast paced game written in Hisoft Pascal and using Sean McManus’ Easi-Sprite Driver and Interrupt driven tune generator (AKA Tunegen) by Nick Keeling. The Opening Animation Sequence was written in Assembly. The aim of the game is to simply collect the required number of Money bags whilst avoiding the Brick Walls. With…

Run the Windows Atari emulator ‘Altirra’ in your MacOS Sierra

The “to-go” Atari emulator for Mac, Atari800MacX emulator has problems when used with MacOS Sierra, where the sound won’t work at all. If you really depend on it to run your favorite Atari software on Mac, you have another option. Altirra, an excellent Atari emulator for Windows was re-packaged to run on MacOS, using a standalone Wine bundle. Wine (originally an acronym…

Vector Vaults, New Addictive Arcade Game for the Amstrad CPC

Vector Vaults is an original and addictive fast retro arcade game exclusive for the Amstrad CPC that will test your pilot skills. It’s the first game of the Hidden History Saga and upon completion will give you a secret code to use in Light Lands (the next entry in the series). Game play is based upon vector graphics (100% spriteless)…

Imperial Mahjong, New Amstrad Puzzle Game by Cargosoft

Imperial Mahjong is a reflexion game based on the Chinese game called ‘Mahjong Solitaire’, in which the player must make all the tiles disappear by selecting pairs that match. Features Outstanding new graphic modes: EGX (Extended GraphX): displays 16 colors in 320*200 instead of 4. EGX2: displays 4 colors in 640*200 instead of 2. First game on CPC to have…

Dragon Spirit SE, Enhanced Amiga Hack by earok

earok has released a quick hack of Dragon Spirit, fixing both the Atari ST palette issues as well as minifying the Dragon that previously obscured part of the playfield. Changes The values of every palette entry doubled to resolve the bug with the Atari ST version Dragon at the bottom right hand corner of the screen shrunk (it no longer obscures…

Picrocs, New Amstrad Homebrew Version of Picross with a Crocodile Theme?!

Picrocs is a new Picross Clone Homebrew game with a Crocodile theme! for the Amstrad computer. The game ranked second with 13 votes to 40 in the compo “Croco or Dragon” organized by Amstrad.EU following an idea of Snake Plissken. You can download the game over at http://www.cpc-power.com. Source: http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/

Adiós a la Casta. Episode 2, Amstrad Homebrew Sequel Released and Available to Order!

Adiós a la Casta. Episode 2 has been released and is now available to order. Floppy version 3 “game” Farewell to Casta. Episode 2 ” Delivered in Jewel Case with 3 “disk and manual. If delivery is on hand it will be made at the “RetroBarcelona 2016” on 7, 8 and 9 October. Delivery from October 9 by mail. [youtube…

TRS-80 Trash Talk podcast, ep. 10 – VCFMW 2016 and Lance Micklus

Episode 10 of the TRS-80 “Trash Talk” podcast is out. Trash talkers Peter B and Randy talk about VCF Midwest 2016. Pete C interviews programmer Lance Micklus. Also discussed: New kits for the MISE and M3SE Model I Double Density Adapter TRS-Box on the Model II and 16 Link: trs80trashtalk.com Subscribe: iTunes