Category: Homebrew Games News
New extra level update and a couple of changes made since the post we made a few days ago. Changes– Three level demo now available to download.– Number of lives and starting money / credit reduced– Removed the enemy attack wave where the enemy slowly rises from the bottom or top of screen as it was difficult – impossible to…
We reported back in early June about the upcoming Bomb Jack remake by Retrofan for the Commodore 64. We have some fantastic (and rather late news that slipped the CiA net, doh) The remake now has a final name and will be now known as Bomb Jack DX, also there is now some awesome video footage to wet your appetite! …
Duel day is a remake of the Spectrum classic High Noon. The idea of this game is keeping loyal to the 1983 original, but bringing it playable to people with Android devices, whilst still keeping its ‘Retro’ look and feel. As it’s on the Android Platform, this will allow you to play the game on your phone, tablet and even…
Most of you that know me, will know that I am an avid Commodore fangirl, with much knowledge of everything Commodore. This might be why I decided to create the website Commodore is Awesome! However Commodore isn’t my only Forté and I have a great love for many other Retrogame formats including Amstrad, Acorn and the Sinclair Machines. One particular…
Peter McQuillan (soiaf) from World of Spectrum forums is relatively new to coding, he started learning to code in z80 assembly only earlier this year, reading Jonathan Cauldwell’s “How to write ZX Spectrum Games” and from reading articles in the development section of WOS. However within this short amount of time, he has come up with a fantastic new Tetris…
The people behind the Atari magazine pro(c) Atari has released a special printed edition of the PDF Magazine ‘ATARI GAMER XL/XE Game Review Edition’ created by Darren Doyle. The 72-page magazine will feature: Atari Time Tunnel Atari Fun Facts 2 Interviews System Focus on 130XE Atari 8bit Trivia 60 Game Reviews Atari Computers in Europe in the 80’s 8bit Lost…
Skool Daze is a computer game released by Microsphere in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 computers. It was written by David and Helen Reidy, with graphics designed by Keith Warrington. The game was commercially and critically successful, and praised for its original concept. It has since been regarded as one of the pioneers of the sandbox game…
mariuszw on AtariAge forum has ported over Ocean’s ‘The Great Escape‘ to the 8bit Atari!The Great Escape was originally released back in the 80’s on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and also DOS. The perspective is an isometric view, much like Batman and Head over Heels on the ZX Spectrum. ScenarioThe player controls an unnamed prisoner of war…
Grass! .. Never had so much fun, Grass! .. Never had so much fun!Ever felt like cutting the grass for fun? Nope me neither! However this is definitely more entertaining than physically cutting real grass. The GameAll you have to do is to mow lawns, precisely and accurately. The game consists of two stages, first stage – a simple “fact-finding”,…
lachlank over at cpcwiki.eu has released some very early footage of what is to become a port of Minecraft on the Amstrad!! This is pretty amazing stuff considering the limitations of the Amstrad Computer and it’s looking pretty good so far I must say! The game is Written mainly in C using SDCC/CPCTelera and also assembler to draw blocks. A…
