Category: Computers
Scene World Championship 2016 Live on Twitch on 29th of May 2016! AJ, Joerg and Senad will play classic C64 games. Also included the battle between AJ and Joerg where AJ tries to beat Joerg in Pit Stop II :) Senad (Team Retroblah) is our special guest this time, who will also be the honored chat host! :) Tune in…
As we, retro “stuff” enthusiasts know, time flies. Turrican II was released 25 years ago, and to celebrate that mark and talk about this iconic game, Pedro Loureiro made a new episode of his video series. It’s a Pixel Thing episode 90 brings a lot of information about that Amiga classic. Pedro doesn’t stop pleasing the game soundtrack and other…
The season of game development competition is open, with many compos for many platforms. This one is being organized by Reset Magazine with the theme “Craptastic”, which features the traditional crap game competition that is found on other platforms as well. The games can only use 4Kb of memory which limits a lot the use of graphics, but it is…
The University of Alicante has launched the 4th edition of CPCRetroDev, the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. Offering 1050 Euros in prizes, divided in 3 categories, the game competition calls for participants. Anyone interested to participate can send his/her entry until October 26th, 2016 (23h59m CEST timezone). The categories and prizes are as follows: Special awards 125 €…
From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years has now been released digitally exclusively on Vimeo on Demand. From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years tells the story of how the Commodore Amiga was created and then how once released in 1985 it went onto to help change not only the way games were played and experienced but also how they were designed for…
Finally after 30 years, Pentagram for the ZX Spectrum came to live on the C64, thanks to Rod and Emu game development group. Pentagram, an isometric adventure game was released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum and MSX by Ultimate Play The Game. The C64 release got a staggering 9.7 score on CSDb, which by itself is an amazing achievement. The current version is…
Hoxs64 Commodore 64 emulator for Windows was updated to version 1.0.8.9. Although not as “famous” as VICE, Hoxs64 aims to be compatible with the real machine in all details. The update has a small fix for a problem found in “Vandalism News #64″, where a write to the raster compare register was causing a raster IRQ to occur one clock too soon….
We usually leave modern games to other fellow websites, as they do a better job covering them, but this one is an exception. You will know why. The upcoming game to be released for the PS4 is a gorgeous modern take on the original Psygnosis title released for the Amiga in 1989. One of the nicest features of the new…
Knights of Bytes has announced that their upcoming (amazing) C64 game Sam’s Journey will be distributed by Protovision. According to the developers, Protovision has created a new box for all their future games, “a classic cardboard box which can be decorated with a printed cover. Inside the box, there will be one of two inlays that hold either some disks or a…
Amicast podcast has a new text interview published. This time, they talk to Toni Wilen, well-known for the development of the Amiga emulator WinUAE. He also is the author of FileMaster, a file manager for the Amiga. The interview covers how he has started, details his work on WinUAE to improve performance and compatibility as well the plans for the ubiquitous Amiga emulator. To read…
