Category: Homebrew Games News
MSXDev’15 was promising with many strong contenders. However, on a not so happy note, José Andrés, one of the members of MSXDev’15 has announced that due to the lack of commitment of the judges, the contest is declared void. There is no winners thigs year. Jose’ let is out “..factors have caused great disappointment in me. I did not expect such a…
The version 3.3.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE which mainly provides AmigaOS-4 adoption has been released. New features: New optional “indirect” UAE expansion trap system, fully compatible with OS4.x, virtual memory and some debugging programs PC Bridgeboard disk drive raw image support. (ipf, ext adf, …) Monochrome video out emulation, including A1000 color/mono video out software control (BPLCON0 COLOR bit)…
Fuse, a free and open source Speccy emulator for Windows, Linux and OSX, just got updated to version 1.2. Here is the announcement: “After a long gestation, and on behalf of the Fuse team I’d like to announce that a new version of Fuse, the 1.2.0 release of Free Unix Spectrum Emulator has been released at the SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/…
CSDb user Slajerek has released a new tool called C64 Debugger. It is a C64 and 1541 Drive code and memory debugger that works in real time. The tool runs emulated in a C64, but to make your life easier it is distributed embedded as a standalone executable using the C64SC engine. Link: CSDb
Another beta version of Space Chase, a fast 2-player shooter for the CBM II series of computers, has been released. The fast-paced shooter makes a good use of the (lack of) graphic capabilities of the, once business oriented, Commodore machine. Space Chase can be played by one or two players. In one player mode, the computer takes over player 2. For…
The Spectrum Next is, in my opinion, causing more buzz around the retro-computing community than the VEGA and as consequence, people want to know more details about the project. The website Flickering Myth has published an interview with Henrique Olifiers, who is part of the team bringing the ZX Spectrum Next to us. Probably the most interesting piece of information the…
The season of game development competition is open, with many compos for many platforms. This one is being organized by Reset Magazine with the theme “Craptastic”, which features the traditional crap game competition that is found on other platforms as well. The games can only use 4Kb of memory which limits a lot the use of graphics, but it is…
From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years has now been released digitally exclusively on Vimeo on Demand. From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years tells the story of how the Commodore Amiga was created and then how once released in 1985 it went onto to help change not only the way games were played and experienced but also how they were designed for…
Finally after 30 years, Pentagram for the ZX Spectrum came to live on the C64, thanks to Rod and Emu game development group. Pentagram, an isometric adventure game was released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum and MSX by Ultimate Play The Game. The C64 release got a staggering 9.7 score on CSDb, which by itself is an amazing achievement. The current version is…
Hoxs64 Commodore 64 emulator for Windows was updated to version 1.0.8.9. Although not as “famous” as VICE, Hoxs64 aims to be compatible with the real machine in all details. The update has a small fix for a problem found in “Vandalism News #64″, where a write to the raster compare register was causing a raster IRQ to occur one clock too soon….
