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Kim Justice has published a video on his YouTube channel talking about the ZX Spectrum homebrew scene. The video covers the basics showing briefly the tools that an inspiring ZX Spectrum developer can use, and finally talks about the 5 best Speccy homebrew games: Ooze, Castlevania – Spectral Interlude, Circuitry, Roboprobe, and Deep Blue. [vsw id=”rNWIJ4Dz3uo” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]
Jeremy Rand has announced the release of a build environment for the Apple IIgs that will please many MacOS users out there! The build pipeline for XCode (MacOS “native” development tool) was first demonstrated at this year’s Kansasfest, and after a few months of cleaning and tweaking was finally released on Github. Taken from Github’s README, the list of features…
Glen Hewlett is really standing out as a knowledgeable authority about Color Computer programming and assembler language in general. He is the author of the amazing port of PACMAN for the Color Computer 3 (which was featured on Hackaday yesterday), and also Space Invaders. On this new article, Glen talks about compiled sprites and how they are more efficient and…
SID2SID & stereo SID (dual SID) Mod I’ve had a thing for the Commodore 64 SID chip ever since i’ve known about it and despite only briefly knowing the C64 breadbin/breadbox in childhood from the kid down the street. I’ve wanted to get that particular one in recent times and I do have a preference to the original 6581 SID…
A new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project: Highlights of this release include: Add DivMMC emulation Add ZXMMC emulation Add support for MLT format screenshots Binaries and the source code can be found below. Link: Sourceforge
Tandy Assembly is the first large scale gathering of Tandy Radio Shack computer enthusiasts since the 1980s and it will take place in Chillicothe, OH on October 7th and 8th 2017. Although the TRS CoCo has its own show (CoCoFest), Tandy Assembly is the first dedicated to any computer ever made by Tandy Radio Shack, which would include from TRS-80…
In Draconic Throne you are the dragon and your objective on this new arcade MSX game is to burn to death all the enemies and defeat the prince that awaits you at the end of each level. It is always refreshing to see a game that turns upside down the usual plot, and Draconic Throne does that really well. I’ve…
SymbOS is a graphical multi tasking Operating System that runs on Z80 machines like the MSX, Amstrad and a few others. It was first released in 2006 exclusively for the Amstrad CPC, and later on ported for the MSX2, Amstrad PCW, and Enterprise 64/128 (added in this new version). After more than 3 years since the previous release, SymbOS 3.0 was…
The Assembly Line is a new podcast that talks exclusively about homebrew games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. There are already four episodes, which the first released last June. Each episode focuses on one specific homebrew game, but what I love about the podcast is that the game is used to illustrate aspects of the NES game development which is…
Capcom partnered with iam8bit to release a limited edition of ‘Street Fighter II’ cartridges for the SNES. The game will come in freshly manufactured cartridges containing the original game (NTSC compatible). The tri-fold box with foil, gloss and embossments will also be an attraction by itself, including a premium instruction booklet and a pack of “retro-surprises”. The special edition will have 5,500…
