Category: PC

Bebop and Tempo, New Challenging Retro Arcade Fun for PC and Mac!

Brandon Dominguez recently emailed over details of a new game for PC and Mac called Bebop and Tempo. Bebop and Tempo is a challenging retro arcade platforming game with a focus on skill and competition. Inspired by the many great games on NES, Bebop and Tempo has the music, art, and difficulty to match. Play through a variety of levels…

Orbox C, A Challenging Puzzle Logic Game for PC

Arseniy recently sent us an email over about his puzzle game for pc called Orbox C. Orbox C is a puzzle game that requires use of logic. It enhances simple mechanic with special elements and missions that interact in different ways. The game does not confuse with complexity and too much blocks on the field. Instead it has cleverly made levels with…

Vintage Computer Festival East happening this weekend

Vintage Computer Festival East is starting today, March 31 and goes until April 2nd at InfoAge Science Center in New Jersey. The show is targeted for the whole family (but we know we would enjoy it the most!) with conferences, exhibit, vendor stands and more. In terms of presentations, the show will have Bill Herd talking about Surface Mount Technology,…

Is it retro already!? Adobe Illustrator turns 30 years old!

Yes, you read it right! On March 17th, 2017, Adobe Illustrator turned 30 years old! Since it is a piece of software that are still being developed and is relevant to this day, we never think of it as something that has started back in the 80’s. Released in 1987, Illustrator changes the way designers create graphics for all sorts of…

The Digital Antiquarian talks about The Secret of Monkey Island

The Digital Antiquarian is back with a new article where he discusses one of the best adventure games ever made (the best in my opinion!), The Secret of Monkey Island by Lucas Film, and created by Ron Gilbert. Entitled “Monkey Island (or, How Ron Gilbert Made an Adventure Game That Didn’t Suck)” the article goes back and forth with historical data…

Good Old WordStar is still a productivity tool!

Arstechnica has published the article WordStar: A writer’s word processor which talks about the iconic word processor released in 1979 for CP/M and later on for DOS and Windows. The author tries to show why the text based editor is still the tool of choice for many writers, like George R. R. Martin, that wrote A Song of Ice and Fire using the DOS-based…

Horace will return in this adaptation of a Vic-20 game

Everybody loves Horace, even if nobody is sure what he is. And he’s set to return in Horace in the Mega Vault, a fan-made game in development by Sunteam. It’s an ‘adaptation/expansion’ of Mega Vault, an Imagine title for the Vic-20 where you had to dodge the traps while collecting food and the master key to escape. This version will…

10 PRINT “BASIC 10Liners 2017 contest is on!”

The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…

Tcheco, In the Castle of Lucio, NES Port Coming!

Way back in June 2015, a game called “Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio” was released for Windows PC. El Macbee over on NintendoAge forums has recently announced that Lukasz Kur (“Wonderland Dizzy”, “Famitale”) has started porting the game to the NES platform. It’s still early days yet, but we will keep you updated as the game progresses. For now though, you can buy the pc…

Unknown Realm: 8bit RPG for PC and Commodore 64

Unknown Realm: The Siege Perilous is a new 8-bit fantasy role-playing game for PC and C64 inspired by the classic RPGs of the 80’s. So far the fundraiser has reached $60,710 pledged of the $65,536 goal. With 23 more days to go, it looks like this Kickstarter is going to be a success! So head over to kickstarter.com and show your support. :)…