Category: Homebrew Games News

The Dream of Rowan – A new game for the Amiga gets Kickstarter Campaign

Rowan wakes in the dungeons stunned and disorientated….. but he begins to remember… Along of this game, you will see how the main character Rowan: a small elf child has to go through hundreds of obstacles and destroy powerful magicians and terrible creatures to rescue his family and friends, and save our world from the darkness. In addition to this,…

Commodore 64 Tetris in 6502 Assembler – part 11

Part 11 of this “best-seller” blog post series is out, bringing more of his Tetris game coding with 6502 Assembler. Wiebo de Wit mentioned on his post that his code has changed so much during his process to write the article that he decide to only talk about the highlights. These are the changes he will cover: Modified the input…

Disassembling 6502 code with Radare Part II – How to crack 'BC’s Quest For Tires'

This is the second part of Ricardo’s article showing techniques to disassemble 6502 code using Redare, a modern tool that allows disassembling code in several different platforms. On this part, the author will show how to crack BC’s Quest For Tires since its copy-protection is easy to bypass. Viewer discretion is advised – Strong 6502 coding throughout the article! Link: Retro.Moe

'Good Game' TV Show Celebrates the Amiga Anniversary with Special Show

Released last October, the Amiga special GoodGame show tells the story of the Amiga in a very nice production. Good Game is an Australian television gaming programme produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The feature goes over the main games that help make the Amiga the greatest game computer of that time (maybe even today!). If you haven’t watched…

Unfinished 'Star Raiders II' for Atari 8-bit surfaces on Internet Archive

Aric Wilmunder, the interviewee of Antic Podcast Interview 104, is the creator of the real ‘Star Raiders II’ for the Atari 8-bit. The game was never released, until now. The creator has posted on Internet Archive the unfinished game (ATR file), alog with a guide to controls in the game and “The Authoritative Star Raiders II”, Aric’s description of why the…

Retro-scene loss: #msxdev compo is cancelled, maybe forever

The #msxdev Compo is a MSX software competition in which all sorts of MSX software is allowed, from games to utilities running on any MSX model. Unfortunatelly, this year’s compo was cancelled due to the lack of interest – the compo didn’t get a single entry so far. Most likely, there won’t be any other editions in the future, according…

'Elves' Dreamland' – Amiga game for Xmas 2015

This is a lovely cute Xmas game (2D platformer) designed for Xmas 2015. The author, Nitta Mituaki, is a “Jet Set Willy” clone game collector, so this Christmas he send us this special gift which was created by map editor of “Jet Set Billy” coded Niilo Paasivirta. All graphics and music were made by Mituaki. To complete the game, you (Santa…

Chrimblast! – New Shoot ‘Em Up for the ZX Spectrum

World of Spectrum user  has announced the release of his entry for the ZX-DEV 2015 comp – Chrimblast!, a Shoot’em Up game where you have to shoot the enemies and collect the presents (!!!). The game has 8 levels, but it is actually a very well-done game with nice graphics and good background music. The sprite flickering that the author warned on…

C64 Game 'Heroes & Cowards' now available for Mac and Windows

The new adventure game for the Commodore 64, Heroes & Cowards, released last August for the Commodore 64 just got a modern packaging allowing seamless installation on Windows and Mac. Starting from USD5.99, different editions are available at itch.io. They are bundled with an emulator for use on Windows or Mac systems, but the games can also be played directly on…

All C64 games suck!!!

This article was written and originally posted by Claus, the creator of the great game Times of Silence, on his blog. You can check his awesome work accessing http://tos.acoustic-velocity.com/!  Ha, got your attention with this vocal headline? It is obviously not true that C64 games suck, well at least not all of them. But when I started thinking about making…