Category: Computers
Few days ago we posted the news about another Commodore 65 that is on sale on German eBay. The auction has ended and the rare machine was sold for €22.827,00 (around USD25,000). The winner bid was only 50 bucks more than the second. That might leave a bitter taste for the guy that lost. Source: Nightfall Crew
On Oct 21st, 2015, Marty McFly arrives in our year, finally! The future pictured in the movie is not quite right, but it is an important date nonetheless. To celebrate this day, we have selected few retro games you should play, if you haven’t done already. Since we are talking specifically about the second movie, our choices are narrowed down…
The first finished game in the Axria series; Retro World boasts four Gameboy inspired worlds of star throwing, wall climbing, enemy fire action! Journey to the Hidden Fortress in search of Scarfire, but beware his demonic creatures along your journey! With many hidden areas to find and a great challenge ahead, Axria Retro World will keep you on your toes…
Retro Computers, the company behind the ZX Spectrum VEGA just announced its Christmas special promotion. For the twelve weeks leading up to Christmas and the New Year, Retro Computers will be placing eleven golden tickets at random into boxes of the ZX Spectrum Vega. If you’re lucky enough to find one, then not only will you receive your ‘normal’ black…
‘Claus’ user on CSDb has released today the game ‘Time of Silence’, a top view graphic adventure game for the Commodore 64. The game is superb, with a refreshing top view perspective. You walk the hero around, and you can interact with people and objects using the menu that shows up when you hit the joystick fire button close to…
The latest episode of Sprite Castle is available since October 14th and talks about ‘Shamus’. “In this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shooter, you’ll face more spiral drones, robo-droids, and snap jumpers than you can shake an ion-shiv at in your quest to defeat the Shadow in this week’s game, 1983’s SHAMUS by Synapse Software. If you would like to play along, you can…
The riveting story of a groundhog who has to climb and throw rocks at stuff to save a mouse from a pterodactyl pirate robot thing. A short, early ’80s arcade-styled platformer with 8 levels. The game has a simple premise, where you have to complete each level in a certain amount of time while shooting or avoiding the Thrush and other…
A game built specifically for VR (but also playable without it), you experience the life of a Seagull that poops constantly and craves bread. Fly around a charming seaside town, raining fecal chaos on the innocent citizens below. Poop on as many people, cars and buildings as possible. Fill your insatiable lust for bread, and seek out the most valuable…
Scene World finally runs live on the website! Staff members Garry Fokke AJ Heller , Joerg Droege actually just met on Skype today and Garry figured it out! So issue #23, #24, #25 are already working thru the webpage ! (Firefox suggested!) You simply click on “run online now!” in the contents tabe page that appears when you click on…
Francisco Gallego has released the version 1.3 of CPCtelera, a game engine for the Amstrad CPC, allowing the programmers to develop for the Amstrad in modern machines using C. Here is the list of changes and new features for this release: API change on cpct_getXBits functions. Changed order of parameters to further optimize operations. Optimized functions: bitarray functions, cpct_count2VSYNC, cpct_px2byteM0,…
