Category: Homebrew Games News
MSXDev’17 is a go, and the organizers are back preparing the iconic MSX development contest. This year, the MSXDev team is asking your input about the contest, rules, prizes, or whatever you think would make it a great contest. MSXDev’15 edition had a lot of road bumps, mainly for the lack of interest, even from the judges (you can read…
The Facebook group Ottawa Vintage Computer Enthusiasts held on Nov 5th the first “real life” meetup. The meeting was held at the Makerspace North, which kindly let us use their excellent installations. Makerspace North was the best possible place to have the meeting as retro computing and the maker scene have so much in common as well as a very convenient location….
Now we are finally up and running with the new look website, our next plan is migrating some pages from CiA. Fred Fish disks, 17Bit Software Public Domain, Box Art, Articles and Reviews. Currently the games pages are up on the site but they still need some work, mostly screenshots and adding new games. Keep an eye on the site…
Freeze64, the Ultimate game cheat fanzine for the Commodore 64 has a new issue available for you to order. The printed magazine brings lots of Commodore 64 content, from games to programming techniques and interviews. This issue content: HUNCHBACK COVER FEATURE: We celebrate Ocean Software’s popular and successful platform arcade game Hunchback, sharing some of our POKES and CODES and…
Imanok, a prolific MSX game developer has announced that he’s taking pre-orders of his upcoming game ‘Tina’s Adventure Island’ for the MSX. According to the developer, you only need an MSX1 computer to play the 64Kb game, which features 35 stages and including 5 bosses. I played a bit of the demo available and the side scroller platformer game shows…
You may have noticed it’s been quiet here these last few days, and we haven’t been updating the News much. Well there’s good reason for this, we have been adding the final touches to the new improved ‘Vintage is the New Old’ website and we are coming close to the big reveal, which we hope will be before Christmas. I…
For some time now Javier Alcañiz and Carlos del Álamo have been working together on a new Amiga Shoot’ em up called EgoWings. If you’re a big fan of shmups, then you are gonna love this one with it’s super smooth gameplay, beautiful soundtrack and graphics similar to the 1989 Amiga classic Battle Squadron. There is no set release date…
CBM prg Studio has reached version 3.9.0, bringing a ton of new features and bugfixes. CBM prg Studio is a free Windows IDE for development in BASIC and Assembler for the 8-bit family of Commodore computers. Changelog: TARGET directive. Logical operators with ‘ifdef’. Complex expressions for constants. Command window. Import SEQ files. CBM prg Studio can be downloaded directly from its…
Today we have some fantastic News about a brand new Atari ST Homebrew game by Cerebral Vortex. Crash Time Plumber is something very unique, combining the concept of Donkey Kong and Popeye. The game was presented last Saturday (12/11/16) at Silly Venture 2k16, the biggest Atari European convention held in Economic-Trade Schools in Gdansk. It placed first in its category,…
As promised, I am back with some more Amstrad Homebrew News. This time we take a look at Sir Ababol 2, Hire Hare and Outlaws. Sir Ababol II “The Ice Palace”, is the sequel to Sir Ababol by “The Mojon Twins”.The first installment was originally released on the ZX Spectrum (2010), then later on the Commodore 64 (2012) and also…
