Category: Games Consoles
The Digital Antiquarian, Jimmy Maher, has been converting old blog posts to eBook format, making it easier to everyone to have a pleasant off-line reading session about the history of video game and computer entertainment as a whole. Jimmy Maher is well-known for many projects, including The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga. He has The Digital Antiquarian blog where he keeps…
There are so many 6502 good assemblers nowadays, including the modern KickAssembler and its javascripty macro capabilities. Now the 6502 developers have another option: Macross 6502. This assembler was developed between 1984 and 1987 by LucasFilm Ltd and used on the development of the game Habitat. Now, the project source code is available on Github, thanks to The Museum of Art…
Even with all emulation available, including the awesome in-browser one provided by the Internet Archive, there are people that would love to have some classic games in their Steam game list. For those who believe are in that category, know that Atari will release 100 classic games on Steam, part of its Atari Vault. With that package, you will be able…
TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) has been updated focusing on Commodore systems, with contributions to C64 by Duncan Twain and Amiga by Crashdisk, cataloguing new software and updating existent sets to fix naming errors. For people looking forward to updates for other platforms, the TOSEC team states that other systems are being worked on, namely MSX (by VG8020), Tangerine…
Mortal Kombat made history as (at the time) the bloodiest and gory fighting game. As the retro scene is always looking for a way to revive or make an homage to the classics using its favorite retro platform, it is not entirely surprising to see Mortal Kombat debuting on the Atari 2600! The feat was achieved by the Atariage user “Jinroh”. For…
Who doesn’t love Duke Nukem? (except Duke Nukem Forever of course!). I remember spending countless hours playing it and laughing at Duke’s toughness. But that was Duke Nukem 3D! Not sure if it is common knowledge but Duke Nukem started as a 2D platform, released back in 1991 by Apogee Software for MS-DOS. The homebrew developer Revo decided to make a…
Post published on Atariage by the user ggn and reproduced here with permission (with few modifications) Raptor Basic+ is 1 year old! And to celebrate its birthday, we thought we’d make a small retrospective with past, present and future products made using it. But first… Premise It was a no brainer. After releasing Raptor, our bare metal library that handles jaguar…
1985 Alternative and The Mojo Twins are ready to release at any moment the new Genesis/Mega Drive game Mega Cheril Perils. The game is based on another title developed by the Mojo Twins for the ZX Spectrum where you controls Cheril who is tasked with freezing time on each stage through a time capsule, which then allow you to dispose of the…
I’ve been enjoying reading the Digital Antiquarian blog articles for a while. They are aways very well written and informative about the history of video game. Jimmy Maher Jimmy Maher announced that he is releasing for free a set of eBooks from a compilation of his old articles. There are currently 8 ebooks available in epub or mobi (Kindle) formats. All…
RevEng user on Atariage has organized a new wiki page about programming for the Atari 7800 at 7800.8bitdev.org. He explains that “those of us that have taken up 7800 development can attest that there’s a lot of information scattered about the net on programming the 7800, but much of it is outdated, and much of it is languishing. The wiki…
