Category: Homebrew Games News
Twin Dragons is a very cute upcoming platformer by glutock for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is very near completion and is an entry for the NESdev compo 2016, which ends on January 31, 2017. What’s Working: Horizontal scrolling, Actors animations, basic physics, one-way platforms, Dragon’s fireballs, Simple enemy AI, Background collisions, Actor/item collisions, items/power-ups, moving platforms (horizontal and vertical), basic sound effects and 45° slopes. Left to do: add flying…
Atariteca earlier this month started a poll to elect the best original game of 2016, which had a great response. Now the Spanish-speaking Atari blog is asking everyone to vote for the best game port, enhancement or hack of 2016. This time around, there is no original game, but pre-existing games that were somehow modified or games that were ported from another platform…
After months of preparation, which included the MSX community participation, the 2017 MSXDev has all the rules defined and it is ready to start tomorrow, Jan 1st, 2017! The development contest will run throughout the year, but the most important date is the submission deadline – October 1st 2017. There will be two categories: This year, there will be two categories:…
MSX Cartridge Shop has announced three games that you will be able to have in physical cartridges and awesome packaging. Manbow 2 and Caos Begins are re-editions and the third one is Alien 8 for the MSX2, which will have a physical edition for the first time. Based on the photos provided, they are well worth The shop also informs that if…
As we draw closer to the New Year, I thought it would be nice to post some of the best Genesis Project crack releases we have been blessed with over this December month.First up is The Bear Essentials +2DP&Map, which is a cracked version of the awesome new platformer by Pond Software. The Genesis Project release includes the following extras; Unlimited Lives, invincibility,…
We are in a golden age of retro printed magazines, with excellent examples dedicated to different retro computers and one great multi-platform. Just before Christmas, I had in my mailbox Freeze 64 and 8-Bit Magazine. We mentioned these publications before, but I decided to talk a bit more about both to, hopefully, help those who are on the fence about buying them. Freeze…
Hackaday has a piece from their 2016 Hackaday SuperConference where IC expert Ken Shirriff talks about his “bizarre hobby of reverse-engineering old chips”. He starts off with the venerable Z80 CPU, mapping the signal flows from the address lines, through the decoder and into the ALU. Did you know that the Z80 only had a 4-bit ALU?!? Man, those were…
After three years of development, with several interruptions and side projects, the game Pop*Star Pilot for the CoCo3 has been released! Developed by Nick Marentes, the game consists of a colourful side-scroller in which the player controls an airplane that flies through different levels whilst popping up balloons. As well as taking care of the balloons, it is important you avoid buildings and keep…
Glen Hewlett has managed to convert Space Invaders from the original Intel 8080 Arcade source code to the Motorola 6809 that runs on the CoCo 3. He starts the article explaining that since he never understood Interrupts back in the 80’s, he decided to try to write something for the CoCo to practice some of the information he learned from John Linville…
Nibiru is a new Shoot ’em up game by Jose Javier Garcia Aranda, programmed in BASIC, using the library 8BP, version V26b. You will find it in the “GameExamples” folder over at github.com. You are the pilot of a destroying ship and you must defeat the planet Nibiru and its leader, “Gorgo”, an almost invincible millenarian reptile. You must destroy the galactic birds…
