Category: Homebrew Games News

25 Years of Lemmings – It's a Pixel THING – Ep.#81

Yes, the game features a suicidal mob of cute creatures is already 25 years old! Lemmings was first published by Psygnosis for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC in 1991. It was also ported for more than 20 different platforms, including NES, C64, Amstrad and Playstation. On this puzzle game, you control the lemmings trying to guide then to the…

ZX Spectrum handheld campaign already gets twice of the initial target

The purists didn’t have time to rant about the Vega Plus and how it diminishes the ZX Spectrum legacy with a lesser machine. Actually, a lot of people don’t agree with that statement and already helped the crowd-funded campaign to reach more than 200% of the initial goal. At this point, with still 30 days to go, the campaign has…

C64 Scene – Hokuto Force welcomes new member after Rite of Initiation is completed

What it takes to be accepted in one of the most active and ubiquitous Commodore 64 demoscene groups? Red robes, sacrifices, fire walking? No, nothing like that is needed (allegedly) but you have to be good at C64 coding, art or music (or all of them). For the new member, Zaphod, debut Hokuto Force releases a cracked version of Mystic Mansion,…

YAPE 1.0.9 – Commodore Plus/4 Emulator

As a Valentine Day special, YAPE has been updated with the following changes: updated project to be used with Visual Studio 2015 and MinGW-w64 optional XAudio2 driver added (DirectSound’s successor) D81 image support in 1551/IEC mode (no partitions though) PSID replay support via the autostart menu refactored audio mixing disk attachment regression bug various other bugfixes (monitor settings, TED sound,…

Commodore 64 Podcast Sprite Castle #25: Radar Rat Race

Other than the usual news and other Commodore 64 stuff, Sprite Castle #25 main feature is the game Radar Rat Race. The game is a clone of Rally-X arcade game developed by Nanco. It was first released for the VIC-20 and later converted for the C64. To know more about it, follow the link below. Link: Sprite Castle

HEROES RESCUE! New game for Amstrad CPC with demo available

Are you tired of seeing the heroes getting everything always right and at the end saving the world? What if they are the lady in distress this time? Heroes Rescue gives you the opportunity to do just that! In the new game in development for the Amstrad CPC, you are the one who has to save the Ninja Turtles and…

'Slime' – New game for the Commodore 64

Based on an original game by Jim Summers on the Commodore PET, Mr. NOP has released SLIME for the Commodore 64. “Battle the growing slime before it takes over the screen, shoot the membranes and eradicate the slime. As the slime grows, cells begin to grow inside the membranes which then chase after you. Complete the level to advance to…

How the ZX Spectrum Helped the 1980s Become Video Gaming’s Most Creative Decade

VICE.COM has published an excerpt from the book Electronic Dreams – How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer by Tom Lean. The book was recently published by Bloomsbury Publishing and tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time turning it into a user-friendly domestic technology. It also covers the other side of the history with the…

24 hours left to back Commodore 64: a visual Compendium Second Edition

Backing a Kickstarter usually comes with a certain degree of risk, since the project can fail and be gone with you money. This is not the case here! Commodore 64: a visual Compendium Second Edition by Sam Dyer from Bitmap Books. He has proven he is capable of delivering a high-quality product, sometimes surpassing any expectation and with this campaign, that already…

Upgrade to Windows 3.1 Today!

With all the buzz about Windows 10, its awesomeness and its problems you may be thinking to change to another OS. To help you with that task comes the Internet Archive! Today the non-profit organization has released almost a thousand Windows 3.1 programs that can run directly on your browser. The new collection includes games, utilities and business software – the jewel of the…