Category: Free Games
How about a relaxing game where your objective is only to take care of and develop your farm? I know there are plenty of these games for modern platforms and mobile phones, but maybe you want to try it using your ol’ pal Amiga! Farmiga has been in development for a while by the Polish developer Tukinem using AMOS, and…
Find out by watching our new video series called “Phaze101 Retro Quiz”. In each video you will be asked a short question about a retro game and shown three possible answers. You only have a few seconds to guess and then the correct answer is shown. Don’t worry if you get the answer wrong … it will be fun to…
N10, a small indie developer team has released today a new game for the ZX Spectrum to celebrate their love and passion for Speccy and Duck Tales. In Duck Tales: Webby To The Rescue, Uncle Scrooge with his nephews and Webby set off for the Carpathian country, where there is a long-abandoned old castle called Fort Cockroach. Legend says…
Oliver ‘Ve3o’ Lindau is a a veteran graphic artist. He’s best known for working with Starbyte on titles like Rolling Ronny and since 10 years also very active in the demoscene constantly making the first ranks on graphic compos. In this episode we talk with him about the technological challenges of bringing the Eye Of The Beholder from the Amiga…
Infocom released Zork 1, 2 and 3 in the early 80s. They were all made to be playable on the home computers of the day using a disk drive. As some of you are aware, they also created a cut-down version of Zork 1, called Mini-Zork 1, which was just small enough to fit into memory on a C64, so…
Retrocomputing and retro gaming continue to get noticed by major news outlets. First was the New York Times with the article The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing published on January 8th, and now Wired Magazine, with the article People Still Really Love the Apple II. Wired’s article is a bit more focused on a game that we are all…
Another traditional game development competition has started, and it is ready to receive submissions. Hosted by Richard Bayliss’ The New Dimension (TND), the compo has bought many cool games for the C64 over the years, and with some clever tricks, the results go beyond the basic Shoot’em Up nature of the tool! The competition is already going, and the deadline…
Biscuits in Hell was released back in June 2020 by Playsoft/Paul Lay as an exclusive game for ABBUC members, as part of issue #141 of the ABBUC Magazine. Now the game is freely available to everybody via ABBUC public downloads (link at the end). The game was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum in 2017 and the premise is fairly…
Juan J. Martinez is again releasing a great game for free. This time he presents us with Brick Rick, a single platform game inspired by classics like Bubble Bobble. The game has 50 stages where Rick has to clear in less than 60 seconds. You can stun the enemies, so they can’t hurt you and then kick them back to…
We’ve been posting many articles and tutorials about Punyinform, a C64 library that let you create Text Adventure games for the C64 using Infocom’s Z-Machine. In order to play those games on a computer, you need an interpreter and that is where Ozmoo comes about, a Z-machine interpreter for the Commodore 64 written by Johan Berntsson and Fredrik Ramsberg in…
