Category: Homebrew Games News
Bubbo World is the third entry participating on MSXDev’15 compo. It is a platform/action game where the main objective is to collect the gold while avoiding the rocks falling from the top. The hero, besides running around, can drop ladders to reach other areas or teleport to a random position on the screen. There are dead ends where the falling…
MSXDev’15 Competition reached its deadline and gets four entries. You might think that four is a small number, but that will change after you see them in action. All entries present a professional look that will make the task to decide which is the best a nightmare. These are the four entries: Wing Warriors, from EGS/Kitmaker, a vertical-scrolling shoot’em up with…
We have talked about Sam’s Journey, a brand-new original scrolling platform game developed for the Commodore 64 home computer. It’s about a cute little hero called Sam who finds himself on an unexpected journey in a strange world. Knights of Bytes has release a new teaser video, showing the hero discover another costume that gives him a white cap and…
Relauch64 is a cross-platform IDE for Commodore 64 available for Mac, Windows and Linux, and the developers behind the project just released a new version 3.3.6. This editor works together with common cross assemblers. The supported assemblers are 64tass, ACME, ca65, DASM, DreamAss, Kick Assembler and TMPx. Other assemblers might work as well, but syntax highlighting may not be 100%…
ZX-UNO is an FPGA-based ZX Spectrum clone project that just finished its crowdfunding campaign on Verkami. Due to its success the campaign ended earlier, surpassing the 16,000 euros goal. The interesting aspect of the project is that it is open not only clone a ZX Spectrum. The board is a complete development platform that due to the nature of the FPGA,…
Arthur has released the version 3.7.0 of the “highly acclaimed” Windows IDE for the C64, CBM prg Studio. Two big new features in this version are: SID Emulation. Finally, after years in development, you can listen to the sounds created with the tool! Support for abbreviate BASIC commands (pO for poke, ? for print etc.) plus tools to compress and uncompress…
Petaco’5 is a new release on CSDb. It is a pinball game developed by Errazking and Maniako with music by Richard Bayliss. As you can see by the image above, the pinball occupies half of the screen, which is pretty much standard for this type of game. There are no sound effects, but the fast-paced music makes up for it. The ball’s gravity…
Commodore Free, a magazine about the C64, VIC-20, Amiga and all C= family of computers has released the issue 91, the first of 2016. The issue has plenty of news about all C= models plus some featured articles like a review for the book “10 PRINT”, an article about Algorithms for Commodore BASIC, and much more. You can download the magazine…
AMICast, the Amiga Podcast has published a text interview with a someone well-known by the Amiga community. Frank Wille is anywhere cool in the Amiga realm. He’s behind Solid Gold and Sqrxz games and other projects like NetBSD for 68k Amiga! The interview is very extensive and will please the retro and modern-ish Amiga fans out there. Browsing about the…
Wiebo de Wit has released the 12th part of his series teaching 6502 assembler programming, using the development of a Tetris game for the Commodore 64. The article, this time, tackles sounds, including playing an SID tune and sound effects for your game. As became a trend with his articles, Wiebo is very clear with his explanations and made it easier…
