Category: Computers
JANI is a new game for the Commodore 64 made with S.E.U.C.K (Shoot’em Up Construction Kit). The nice thing about this one is the different take the the developer took, making it look a lot like games like Legend of Zelda and Pokemon, at least in terms of the graphics used. The gameplay is pretty much the standard Shoot’em with…
The Amiga game ‘The Dream of Rowan’ Kickstarter campaign still has 3 days until it ends and although it seems won’t meet the target, the developers put out today a work in progress demo of the game. If you were on the fence about backing the project, maybe playing the demo will help you make up your mind. Independent of the outcome,…
James “CritAnime” Parkinson has published a very detailed tutorial teaching how to setup a Raspberry PI with RetroPie distribution and make the Commodore 64 emulator boot in BASIC, turning you PI in a *true* Commodore machine! He starts with “I love my Raspberry Pi. I think it is one of the best computer systems people can buy. It is cheap….
The 2015 Sideways SEUCK compo came to an end. Although counting only with three contestants, the competition was fierce due to the high quality of all three games. With 79 votes the winner is PAN!, followed by U-91306 Eidothea with 76 votes. The third place, grabbing 72 votes, was Edge of Time. I shot three short videos of the gameplay of all…
Lavadeira.net has a long-run series of articles teaching C Programming for the MSX machines. These are the latest articles: #40: Functions in MSX-C (Part 1) Functions. Declarations, definitions and externs. How to define functions that don’t take parameters. Functions declared locally inside other functions. #39: Graphic characters and additional quoted symbols The MSX graphic characters and the 2-byte sequences to…
Petscii-Poker, developed by the group Software of Sweden, was released a while back and now has been updated delivering faster gameplay and also miscellaneous bug fixes. As the name suggest, it is a poker game that uses PETSCII characters to represent the graphics, with very impressive results. The background music is another welcome touch that creates a nice mood to…
Almost time to slice the turkey and celebrate the new year and I just had a pleasant surprise: Amigaville issue 3 is out. Amigaville issues 1 and 2 had a staggering reception from the Amiga community and that was well deserved for being a magazine made with high-quality articles and professional finish. Amigaville issues 1 and 2 had a staggering…
Nothing like a good brainless shot’em up game to celebrate 2016, eh? If you agree you should try Flying Cobra RX, released today by The New Dimension. The game is very fast and the smooth animation, impeccable! I recommend the joystick instead of the keyboard if you can, as the game is harder using the keyboard. The sideways missiles are…
WHDLoad is a software package for the Amiga platform to make installation of software to a hard disk easier, for such things as demos or games. Recently it was announced that WHDLoad is now free which certainly brought more attention to it. Timely, the ByteCellar Blog has published a good introduction to WHDLoad. It is a must read and an…
Push’n’Pop is known by the Amstrad demoscene for many years bringing articles and news related to the platform. Despite the sad news, the website shows a humorous message explaining what happened: Based on the message above, it seems Push’n’Pop team wasn’t very careful with their backup and because of their inability to bring the site back, it is gone for…
