Category: PC
There is still time to join Richard Garriott and Rebecca Heineman in playing Nox Archaist and get your hands on all the awesome feelies! http://kickstarter.noxarchaist.com “I greatly look forward to exploring this realm!” –Lord British, Creator of Ultima “I can’t wait to play this game on my Apple IIgs!” –Rebecca Heineman, Creator of Bards Tale III Click here to back…
Arstechnica UK has published a 2-part article telling the complete story of the IBM PC. The first part was published back in June and the second and final part on July 31st. The massive 8000-word article goes deep in the history of the computer that, despite not being the most exciting and capable of its time, caused the demise of…
So, I have taken it upon myself to do the unthinkable, I am writing a 1000 room text adventure in qbasic64, it’s a modern version of qbasic that runs on modern computers. So within it, you play a reporter who’s plane goes down during a storm and you crash land on a small island off the east coast of the…
Gamasutra website has released from its Vault a presentation from this years’ Game Development Conference (GDC) with nothing less than Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley’s postmortem of Civilization. Very common in the game industry (and many others as well), the postmortem is an evaluation of a certain game development process, analyzing what went right and what went wrong, how it should’ve…
The Commodore Plus/4 was my very first computer, many awesome games have been released for this system despite it generally being a flop for Commodore. As well as specific Plus/4 only games, this computer was also capable of playing Commodore 16 games. One of these I fondly remember was “Video Meanies” released by Mastertronic in 1986. PJG Developments are very…
John W. Linville has announced the final judging results for RetroChallenge 2017/04. Judging was originally supposed to be done by both Linville and Michael Mulhern, but Mulhern had to drop out due to personal issues. So, without further ado, here is the results list: Richard Loxley won the “Bounty Box” (donated by Mike Spooner) for his “RetroMatic” universal retrocomputer video…
The NPR podcast How I Built This is a podcast about innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. On May 22, they released an episode where they talked with Rod Canion, one of the three co-founders of Compaq Computers. He left Texas Instruments in 1981 after being assigned a project that he felt wasn’t going…
I love the articles written by Jimmy Maher, the “Digital Antiquarian”! Being also the author of the excellent “The Future was Here – The Commodore Amiga“, Maher has been writing about computer (hardware and software) history for a long time, and you can find them all on his blog. This time around he published one talking about the IBM PC architecture, tackling…
Nox Archaist is a new role playing game in development by 6502 Workshop exclusively for the Apple II platform and emulators, with both floppy and hard disk support. Check out the latest mini story using the Nox Archaist engine to demo the newest features in the game: The Nox Archaist story line is still under development. Any names or characters used…
Metal Sonic returns from the Little Planet with a plan to resurrect his creator using ancient alien technology. Can Sonic, Tails and Knuckles collect the Chaos Emerald and Time Stones to stop Metal Sonic before its too late? Sonic Time Twisted is an unofficial fan made Sonic the Hedgehog game that has been in development for 12 years. Featuring 28…
