Category: Homebrew Games News
How about celebrating Halloween playing a high-quality ZX Spectrum game deeply inspired by classics like Cybernoid, Equinox and Druid!? Meet Sophia, a game where you are a young master wizard girl on a mission to save the Empire from destruction and humanity from enslavement! The game presents the following features: 4 levels 85 screens 20 different enemy sprites 5 tunes Final boss…
Freeze64 has established itself as a mandatory reading for all Commodore 64 enthusiasts out there with rich content that will satisfy the retro gamer, the collector, and even the retro programmer. Issue 14 is now available with the following content: Cosmic Cruiser Cover Feature Interview With Gary Penn Making Of Cosmic Cruiser With Paul Clansey Desert Island Disks With Chris…
Ingo Hinterding, known as “Awsm” on CSDb has released his browser-based sprite editor for the Commodore 64 – Spritemate. Since it runs on any modern browser, Spritemate can be used on Mac, Windows, and Linux (or virtually any device that has a browser that supports Javascript). It also supports the most common file formats for the Commodore 64. This is…
Retroworks has released the excellent ‘The sword of Ianna’ earlier this year for both the ZX Spectrum and MSX2 line of computers and if you have played the game, or watched a video about it you might have thought “How they manage to create a game like that! It is so good!”. Well, like Retroworks listened to your thoughts, they just…
Athanor – The awakening is a vector-based graphic adventure game created by Erik Safar for the Oric and Amstrad. Eric “Majikeyric” had ported it for the Commodore 64 and now he just announced that the game can also be played on the C16 and Plus/4, thanks to a port made by Megastyle. Athanor takes place in the south of Italy in…
Following the trend of having a browser-based tool that let you program, test, and share code (aka Codepen), Rafael Jannone from the Facebook group MSX Brasil has developed the MSXPen where you can add BASIC or machine language code for the MSX and test it right on your browser Window. The editor is not fully-featured (yet) but it already supports syntax highlighting…
The Atari 2600 will have three brand new homebrew games being released at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo that will happen next October 20-22. The games are Super Cobra Arcade, Space Cactus Canyon, and Draconian. Follow the description from the press release: Super Cobra Arcade is a sequel to the classic arcade game Scramble in which the player must navigate their…
The Schoolsky Apple-1 computer was sold at auction by Charitybuzz on September 26th for US$401,000. I’ve found today an interesting blog post showing the steps to get the computer delivered to its new owner. The blog shows The blog also has links to videos with the seller, David Larsen, talking about his Apple 1 and also the steps to get it shipped….
Henrique Olifiers has posted an update about the Spectrum Next updates. Here is our summary: Boards Production The bad: the board-only deadline has passed by more than a month and the new date is not defined yet. The good: all the components are now delivered to the factory, including the RAM sockets that had to be hand-spooled into a reel to so…
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) homebrew scene has never been stronger with many amazing releases in cartridge happening for the past few years. We at VITNO are excited to support the homebrew scene and we will start to post about games that are being released as well as games that were released recently. Mega Cat Studios’ City Trouble is a side-scroller…
