Category: Homebrew Games News

'Tanks Furry' – Amiga Game Preview

Developed for the Polish “RetroKomp GameDev Compo”, “Tanks Furry” is a tank shooter game where you have to hit the opponent’s tanks before they destroy your base. The game is still incomplete (version 0.3a) so there is still a lot to be improved and fixed, but the preview is playable. The developer mentions that for now, the game has to be…

Time of Silence 2 – Adventure sequel for the Commodore 64

We reported about the excellent game ‘Time of Silence’ few weeks ago, and now its developer has released already the sequel. Well, in reality it could be called ‘Extended Edition’. The reason of this is because the first game was made short and several ideas and storytelling were left behind due to time constraints to meet the compo deadline. To…

Cloanto releases Amiga Forever 2016 and C64 Forever 2016

Cloanto has released a new version of Amiga Forever, its emulation software package for the Amiga. It also has released the C64 Forever 2016. Amiga Forever is the official Amiga emulator, preservation and support package brought to you by Cloanto, Amiga developers since 1986. “After almost two years of hard teamwork since the 2014 versions were released, it may seem like the…

Saboteur! for Atari XL/XE – New version, now with colours!

Few days ago we reported that Saboteur! for Commodore 64 was getting a port for the Atari 8-bit computers. At that time,  the released version for Atari had no colors yet. Terence “Tezz” Derby joined the project this week with Mariusz “mariuszw” Wojcieszek to help with the port of the game. He has reported on Atariage about his progress: “Much…

Commodore 64 2015 Software Pack Compilation

Why didn’t we think of that? Yeah, but Nightfall Crew did. They have posted a list of new games and tools released in 2015 for the Commodore 64, including a download file containing them all. The package doesn’t contain every single release of 2015 but certainly has most of the best ones. The year is not over and more is…

Tetris in 6502 Assembler – part 10

Wiebo de Wit was quick this time to update his blog with the excellent series “Tetris in 6502 Assembler”. The 10th part of the long article. The subject is the main loop and game modes, like the game over mode. Also, as the author says, the article start to tackle the reuse of code, which is very important when the…

'The Return of Traxtor' – New game for Amstrad CPC

Juan J. Martínez has released a port of his ZX Spectrum game ‘The Return of Traxtor’ for the Amstrad CPC. There are 25 levels on the game. You have to use the tractor beam to move blocks into the bay, and fire to throw back the top-most block to the board. Match 3 or more blocks to destroy them before…

Amiga Emulator WinFellow gets new version!

It is not only about WinUAE or FS-UAE. There is also available for Windows the Amiga Emulator  Winfellow, which has been around for about 10 years, and it is just got a new version. Actually, two versions of the Windows-based Amiga emulator WinFellow 0.5.3 have been released. The second one (“0.5.3 build 1004”) was compiled again with Visual Studio 2013…

Commodore 64 Game Preview – ‘Jump Ninja’

If you hate Flappy Birds, you will also hate ‘Jump Ninja’! And that is not a bad thing because I couldn’t find a single person that didn’t hate FlappyBirds that wasn’t addicted to it :) Jump Ninja is still a preview so you need to forgive the defects or imprecisions. Despite its ‘preview’ state, the game has excellent graphics and…

Tetris in 6502 Assembler – part 9 – Joystick Control

Wiebo de Wit has published yet another part of its incredible tutorial about how to create a Tetris game using 6502 Assembler for the Commodore 64. This time, he teaches how to code joystick support for the game, as well as a pause mode. Wiebo is really doing an amazing job with this tutorial, and if it wasn’t enough, the whole game…