Category: Computers
It was published today a video presentation from the Game Developer Conference 2012 featuring our beloved TRS-80 and its iconic games. The presentation is about game design where Jim McGinley shows many classic TRS-80 games like Dancing Demon and Outhouse, and how some of them had a fantastic design considering how limited is the machine’s resolution. He has some interesting views…
(Article by Daniel Campos, translated by Paulo Garcia) I believe this article doesn’t bring a lot of new information for those who follow my articles because I’d been promising an article talking about the computer that originates the history of the CoCo clones in Brazil for almost a year. The history The CD-6809 was the first CoCo clone produced in Brazil…
The article has been written exclusively for Commodore is Awesome/Vintage is The New Old by Eric “Majikeyric” Hilaire, tThe developer of ‘Bug Hunt’, one of the strongest entries on the 2016 RGCD 16K Game Cartridge Competition. In September 2015, I was looking for a little game to port to the Commodore computers (not only to C64 but also Amiga and VIC20). I’m…
Retrospekt website has published an interview with John Kavanagh, the guy behind the Kickstarter campaign that aim to bring a magazine all about 8-bit machines. The article starts with “John Kavanagh is no stranger when it comes to online magazine publishing. Having produced CPC Oxygen magazine for the Amstrad community, he has a strong passion for vintage computers, particularly those…
Amicast has a 2-hour long interview with Mike Battilana, who is well known by the Amiga community from his Amiga and C64 Forever projects, but he is actually a seasoned Amiga developer since Commodore machines weren’t retro! From the podcast announcement post: “We talk with Mike, his company, and the years before and after the Commodore bankruptcy. We then chat…
Retro Innovations has made available the UltiMem VIC-20 Memory Expansion Cartridge that adds more than 8MB of FLASH ROM storage and 1MB of RAM! Here are the specs: 8 (eight) megabytes of VIC-20 programmable FLASH ROM storage. 1 (one) megabyte of yummy RAM storage. A myriad of configuration options, to suit your tastes You want ROM at $2000 and RAM at…
RGCD C64 Cartridge Development Competition 2015 has reached the first deadline and are not accepting more entries. With 11 entries and 9 brand new games, this year’s competition is a great success. These are the 11 games: Alienator (Georg Rottensteiner) Blap N Bash Revisited (Richard Bayliss) Bug Hunt (Eric Hilaire) Icicle Race (John Christian Lønningdal) Pickle’s Pod Patrol (Steve Ody) Platman (Andrea…
ZX Dev’15 has finished its first phase where then game entries are submitted. The compo has received 15 games that you can now download, play and vote! With that many games, we can say the compo response was more than excellent and now to be completely successful, it needs your help to choose the best games. The entries are: Complica DX…
You can now download the full version of the game ‘Gravity Power’ directly from Amiga Future website. The game was in the cover disk of the magazine Amiga Power (1995 June issue 50) . The 2D shooter game was published by Bits Productions in 1995 as a revision of his precursor Gravity Force II. Link: Amiga Future
Are you ready for some shooting, killing and fun on your Amiga? Good! This new unofficial release from Amiga CD32 Alternate Covers is right for you! Run Run ‘n Gun Collection brings several amazing games ready to play, and with enhanced controls using most of the available Amiga CD32 buttons. This release contains: Toki (Ocean) Assassin S.E (Team 17) Alien 3…
