Category: Homebrew Games News

Foggys Quest by John Blythe, Small Update, New Title Screen & Box Art!

Foggys Quest is a new AGD Spectrum game by John Blythe, which has received a very minor update recently with a new Title Screen and new Box Art!, and we must say they look Fantastic! What do you guys think? Looking back through previous screenshots, the game looks to be almost finished?, but we may have to wait a little longer until we see a release. As usual we will…

Scott Clifford is back working on Raiden for Atari STe

Back in March 2016 Scott Clifford started work on Raiden (1990) for the Atari Ste. Motivated by the existence of a Falcon version which was only limited to three levels. Unfortunately the development was paused due to personal reasons, that is.. until now! AtariCrypt has recently reported that work has resumed in recent weeks and is progressing rapidly with some new…

MAME Emulator turns 20!

You know you are getting older when the emulator that let you play older games is already 20 years old. Yes, MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) has turned 20, and it is better than ever! During this 20 years, MAME made possible for everyone to revive (old people) or experience for the first time (youngsters) thousands of amazing coin-op machines…

Developer who worked on a TRS-80 Model III Clone back in the 80’s builds an amazing working miniature

Introduction Back in the 80’s, the Brazilian government restricted the importation of microcomputers to help the local industry to develop. That was a great opportunity for those companies to create clones of the most important computers of the time: Sinclair ZX-81, TRS-80, Apple and later on, IBM PC. One of the biggest microcomputer manufacturers at the time was Prologica Computadores. The…

Twin Dragons NES Demo for the NesDev Compo 2016 Released!

We just had some fantastic exclusive News in our inbox today! Antoine Gohin (glutock), creator of Twin Dragons Demo for the NES, just announced that the nesdev compo 2016 demo version has been released! You can download the rom from the link below. Many thanks for the heads up Antoine. :) Download: Twin-Dragons-20170131-0.074.nes Original Post: vitno.org Forum Thread: nintendoage.com

10 PRINT “BASIC 10Liners 2017 contest is on!”

The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…

ZX Spectrum Next – Video shows development moving at full throttle

If you are not following the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook group you will love to know that the ZX Spectrum Next development is reaching important milestones. The developers have received another prototype of the machine which shows a PCB that will be probably very close to the one offered as the final product. It features several interfaces that will make any…

Castle Capers, New AGD Spectrum Homebrew Release by Gabriele Amore!

The dream fairies have been kidnapped by the evil Mouse King and his acolytes. Use you magic to rescue them. Made with AGD for your beloved color-clashy Zx Spectrum! Castle Capers is probably my most joyful, colourful game. I spent long hours to get the graphics just right and it is my true act of love for my beloved Speccy. Thanks Jonathan Cauldwell…

8Bit Civilizations Demo, Fan Remake of Civilization 2 for the C64 by Fabian Hertel!

Civilization is a global strategy game released in 1991 by MicroProse under the direction of Sid Meier, who weighs as legendary within the industry. It is one of the most popular and most successful games of all times. The player has the task to guide a tribe from the New Stone Age through the history of mankind up to the…

Bomb Jack DX, C64 Arcade Port, Beta 4 Video and Exclusive News Updates!

We had a chat with our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64 recently and he has sent over some fantastic “Exclusive News!”, regarding the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Retrofan has uploaded a new Beta 4 video to his YouTube channel and as you can see, the game is looking Fantastic! First thing you will notice, OneBitman has completely remade the Music…