Category: Homebrew Games News
As an NES aficionado and amateur coder, I recently participated in NESmaker‘s 2019 BYTE-OFF competition. As a VITNO exclusive, I’m offering you the chance to play my submitted NES game — OFFICE HERO! To sweeten the deal, I’m offering prizes to the first few players who can beat the game and find all 8 exits to win the game. What…
MSXDev’18 initial phase has come to an end on a high note. Nothing less than fifteen games are running to be the best in two categories: MSX Classic and MSX Freestyle. A panel of experts will judge the games but the organizers also started a poll to let the people pick their favorite (link below). This is the list of…
More reviews and unboxing from us! Sizzler! Our very own Andrew Fisher has a look at it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RVD8gcmONo … – unboxing and C64 gameplay!
A few weeks ago the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4k was on sale on Amazon Canada and I decided to get one, although I already had many other ways to stream Netflix and other streaming services (fact that my sons keep reminding (mocking!) me every time I use the new device). The price was good and I was curious to…
By now, everybody knows that the Arcade Game Designer (AGD) has been helping many developers to bring new games for the ZX Spectrum (and also Amstrad CPC, Coco/Dragon) in an incredible rate and excellent quality. Yesterday, another game showed up in the AGDx Facebook Group and caught my attention by its simplicity and the arcady feeling that it brings: Ninja…
As you might know, Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD) is a game engine tool that makes easier to develop games for the ZX Spectrum. Although AGD is one of the best game engines around for retro computers, it runs on a ZX Spectrum hence it is constrained by the machine’s limitations. This week, Tony Thompson has announced on the…
NESmaker is a recently launched tool allowing you to create NES games without programming experience. The games created with NESmaker can be flashed in cartridges and played in an original NES console. To celebrate the new home brewers using the tool, the The New 8-bit Heroes have launched Byte-off!, a game designed competition. To enter the compo, the contestant has…
If you just arrived from Mars where you lived for the past 40 years, Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 emulator available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. As an open source project, the emulator can be also ported to many other platforms. The new version 6.0 brings dozens of fixes and new features, mostly targeting the use of new underlying…
Already a tradition in the Retro Computer Enthusiast’s community, the 2019 edition of the 10-Liner Contest has started and will run through March 30th (6PM CET). Sponsored by Homeputerium, the contest challenge all BASIC programmers to come up with something amazing using only 10 lines of code. Since its establishiment eight years ago, the contest has received 312 10-Liners! The…
