Category: Computers
MSXdev’15 received its 3rd entry: Bubbo World by Team N.I., an action game where the main goal is to collect all the gold ingot spread all around the screen. The character can drop ladders to get to the gold and also, he can warp to a random spot in the screen when there is no exit. Green rocks fall from the top of the…
This 2-part article, written by Jimmy Maher on the ‘The Digital Antiquarian’ blog tackles software piracy, since the dawn of personal computing. The first part focus on the history, starting with the open letter Bill Gates wrote back in 1976, asking the hobbyists to not copy Micro-soft software and explaining how software copyright came to be. The second part is actually my favorite,…
Plus/4 World has made available several BASIC games that were never available online before. The website user 264er_Fan purchased a disk collection from eBay, which had some previously unknown games on it. Six of these come from Mark Lünnemann, a German programmer, who also wrote Pyramid Guy: Crack World, Dead of Night, Diamonds Man, Gallows Man, Sticknadel, Tunnel John. The…
When 2015 was coming to an end, somewhere in the MSX Resource Center headquarters the whole website saw its whole life flashes before its eyes when the server two hard disks decided to crash at the same time. We all, retro computing enthusiasts were breathless with the possibility of losing invaluable content related to MSX. The most important MSX site stayed…
ADTWin is a free tool for writing Amiga disks from a PC. It requires a Windows PC with a parallel port and a floppy disk drive that is connected to the PC’s parallel port by a self-made cable. The disk content has to be provided in form of an Amiga Disk File. Only the original double-density Amiga disk format (for 880kB disks) is…
Ranarama is an action game developed by Graftgold in 1987 and published by Hewson Consultants. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. You see Amiga on that list? No, right? Thankfully, Galahad/FLT user on English Amiga Board decided to invest his time to make that port happen, letting all the Amiga fans to enjoy…
TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) has been updated focusing on Commodore systems, with contributions to C64 by Duncan Twain and Amiga by Crashdisk, cataloguing new software and updating existent sets to fix naming errors. For people looking forward to updates for other platforms, the TOSEC team states that other systems are being worked on, namely MSX (by VG8020), Tangerine…
After 4 years in the making, the documentary “Viva Amiga” will be finally released to the general public in March, to coincide with the 2016 SWSX (South by Southwest Film Festival). The producers of the film also state that all Kickstarter backers will get their copies BEFORE the general release. As well as access to special content, bonus clips and…
As pointed out by RGCD itself, it is been a long time since we’ve heard about the ’16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition’, but today they finally sent out the current status. Basically, there are 8 entries, but only 4 of them seems to have some activity with the developers sending information and a screenshot of the games. Actually, one of them, Vortex…
Following the news about the Amiga source code leak, Hyperion, the company that has exclusive and worldwide rights to distribute and use Amiga OS published an official statement as follows: Press release: Brussels, January 5, 2016 – Hyperion Entertainment wishes a happy New Year 2016 everybody! The days between last Christmas and New Year were actually clouded by the sad…
