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1993 proved to be a killer year for the Amiga, seeing some of the best titles for the platform released that very year by some best and brightest studios in the business. The Bitmap Brothers would release The Chaos Engine, one of my favourite shooters of all time, and Sensible Software were hot on their heels with one of their…
Today I stumbled across this article written by Carsten Elton SØrensen. In the article he talks about his idea of adding function ROMs to the Commodore 16. Out of the box, the C16 supports only external ROMs. Internal function ROMs were an exclusive capability of its sibling, the Plus/4 which provided a built-in productivity software suite. The article, very technical, first starts…
It was announced on the Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group that ReactiveMicro has available its Drive/Turbo IDE Controller for only US$75. The ReActiveMicro Drive/Turbo IDE Controller is a Mass Storage Device that once installed in the Apple IIgs or Enhanced IIe acts like a solid-state Hard Drive using Compact Flash Cards. If you have a standard Apple IIe, the company also…
A new version of AppleCommander, a tool that manipulates Apple ][ disk images, has been released. The new version 1.4.0 brings the following changes: Updates: Migration from SourceForge to GitHub. This updates the boot code to point that out. AppleCommander would hang in an infinite loop if a directory wrapped in on itself. Fixed a filtering issue on Linux and…
I remember when I was 13 years old and I’ve got my first wristwatch, a CASIO that had a shoot’em up game. The game was simple, but I spent so much time playing it that the watch battery had to be replaced sooner than I imagined. LCD games are unique on the way they are built, with pre-defined images that are…
MSX is not well known in North America but is very popular in Japan, Europe, and Brazil. The hardware of the 1st generation is very similar to the Colecovision, and the games present great graphics and sound. To increase awareness of the platform as well as to bring new homebrew games, MSXDev organizers a competition every year and the results…
Of all the titles to be released for the Commodore Amiga, ‘Shadow of the Beast‘ remains as one of the most iconic and most celebrated. Developed by Reflections Interactive and published by Psygnosis, it represented something of a generational leap in terms of technical and creative achievement, boasting graphics and sound quite unlike anything else on the market at the…
Have you ever wondered what delights are waiting for you at the end of your favourite Commodore 64 game? Is there a game that you have spent an AGE trying to complete, but you just can’t manage to reach the end? Well stress no more as the C64endings Team are here to reveal all! Vinny Mainolfi has been cataloguing Commodore…
Retro Asylum, Episode 179 has been released. Steve Erickson & Mads Kristensen talk to Juan J. Martinez about his most recent games and how it is to develop modern games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64. Listen: Retro Asylum Podcast, Episode 179 Website: retroasylum.com
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of VirtualC64. VirtualC64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Mac OS X. New in Version 1.8 The Keyboard Manager has been reworked. In the keyboard menu, you can now choose between symbolic and position-based assignment. When using symbolic key assignment, the emulator tries to map a pressed key using its ASCII representation. Up…
