Category: Homebrew Games News
Nothing like a good brainless shot’em up game to celebrate 2016, eh? If you agree you should try Flying Cobra RX, released today by The New Dimension. The game is very fast and the smooth animation, impeccable! I recommend the joystick instead of the keyboard if you can, as the game is harder using the keyboard. The sideways missiles are…
Who doesn’t love Duke Nukem? (except Duke Nukem Forever of course!). I remember spending countless hours playing it and laughing at Duke’s toughness. But that was Duke Nukem 3D! Not sure if it is common knowledge but Duke Nukem started as a 2D platform, released back in 1991 by Apogee Software for MS-DOS. The homebrew developer Revo decided to make a…
The Ultimate Amiga Talk – Amiga Hardware Design And Programming was presented at 2015 Chaos Communication Congress – Gated Communities (#32C3) in Hamburg. The hour-long video shows the speaker, Bernard R. Fischer going deep in Amiga 500 hardware description as well as programming information. It is a very technical video but a must-see for everyone interested on Amiga programming. [youtube 3Ho12VYv-iw nolink] For…
Our favorite Forth implementation, DurexForth, has released a new version 1.4.5. These are the changes: forth: / now uses floored signed division forth: bugfix for negative number parsing (2- was interpreted as -20) forth: made 2/ sign-extend negative numbers forth: added spaces source >in 2over 2swap m+ m* sm/rem fm/mod dabs dnegate s>d forth: changed word order of double-cell integers…
“Important people who shaped the TI 99/4A World” blog on Atariage is talking about Scott Adams, the genius behind many Text adventure games was brought up in Miami Florida. In 1975 he wrote a computer game on a computer that his brother Richard built a year before, making him the first person on earth to write a computer game on a home…
1985 Alternative and The Mojo Twins are ready to release at any moment the new Genesis/Mega Drive game Mega Cheril Perils. The game is based on another title developed by the Mojo Twins for the ZX Spectrum where you controls Cheril who is tasked with freezing time on each stage through a time capsule, which then allow you to dispose of the…
I’ve never seen an Amstrad CPC face-to-face, but after reading about it and playing with emulators, I wish a had personal experience with this machine for its capabilities. Nonetheless, it is always good to see new games coming out for the platform. This time, we welcome ‘Adios a la Casta Episode 1’ by 4Mhz group. The game is still in…
WinUAE needs no introduction, it is the best option to emulate Amiga computers in your Windows machine. The team behind its development has just released the final version 3.2.2, with the following changes: Bug fixes: JIT FPU 32-bit and 64-bit compatibility fixes. Interlace mode blank screen in some configurations. Slirp network mode high CPU usage. Some programs that use AGA…
Mr.NOP has released Ladybug for the Commodore 64. The game is a direct port from the author’s PET version, which was released a couple years ago. All using PETSCII characters, in the game you have to navigate your ladybug throughout the maze while collecting food. Swing the doors to block the predators from reaching you. The C64 version has the…
Today Hokuto Force has released on CSDb two new (old) games properly cracked and trained. The first one is QUE by Zerosoft is a small Lunar Lander type of game but without the thrust rocket to slow you down. That detail makes the game really hard sometimes and not as fun as our very own Mission:Moon. The second one is…
