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As they say: “It is never too late to start learning”. If you believe that and is a happy owner of a TRS-80 CoCo, you are lucky! The Oregon Trail is being ported to the CoCo! Early today, Paul Shoemaker posted a video on the TRS-80 Color Computer Facebook group showing his progress porting probably the most famous educational game…
This year, my annual trip to Brazil coincided with the time when the biggest game show in Latin America takes place: Brazil Game Show. This year’s edition had more than 300,000 people walking the aisles, checking the 400 booths featuring giant players like YouTube, Facebook Games, Epic Games, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and many others. Although I like and play games…
Sarah Jane Avory is one of the most respected developers within the current C64 gaming scene. With a long history of game development that has seen her work on unreleased C64 titles in the 1980s before moving on to be involved with many successful titles (and some not so) across the Amiga, Atari ST, Sega Mega CD, Atari Jaguar and…
We go back to 1988 and check out Silmarils’ drug-busting beat ’em up for Amiga and Atari ST!
We explore the process of recording retro longplays, video editing tips, and everything in-between!
Parallaxian, a stunning new shoot’em up / bomb’em up game in development for the Commodore 64 is set to push the old home computer beyond it’s limits, raising the bar with graphical and coding techniques never before seen on any game for the platform. The backstory to Parallaxian sees you take on the role of a crack pilot manning the…
Disclaimer: I have a long-standing affiliation with Cloud-9, a prominent hardware vendor in the Color Computer community. My commentary here is based partly, but not solely, on experiences with that affiliation. Introduction Manufacturing hardware goods in the vintage computing marketplace is often, if not always, a labor of love. For those who take on the work of melding new technology…
Double Sided Games is excited to announce that they will be publishing Vegetables Deluxe, a match 3 style puzzle game with a vegetable theme, for the Commodore 64. Vegetables Deluxe, developed by Mike Richmond, is the sequel to the original Vegetables game that Richmond released earlier this year and submitted as part of the RGCD C64 16K Cartridge Game Dev…
I think everyone reading this has good memories going to newsstands or the magazine section of a computer store and browse the many computer magazines available (when they weren’t wrapped in plastic bags!). Atari owners would look for the Antics and ANALOGs, Commodore fans for Compute Gazette, Your Commodore, and so on! There were also the 300-page multiplatform magazines like…
RetroShop has been secretly working on an official case for MiSTer FPGA. The new case will allow enclosing the MiSTer board as well as the Terasic DE10-nano. The case is made of FR4 (a composite material composed of woven fiberglass cloth with an epoxy resin binder that is flame resistant) and it was designed by Alexey Melnikov, who also designed…
