Category: News

1943 Arcade Review by Rob Joy

It’s back to WWII and the battle of Midway as the sequel to 1942 takes off into action! As from the previous campaign, the action takes place from above. Dogfighting, dodging lead and airborne acrobatics are still paramount as the mighty Japanese naval power must be thwarted. The dynamic remains the same, a simple shooter with much more weaponry and…

RMD, New Vertical Shooter Released for MSX

A new vertical shooter called RMD, short for Raiden MoDoki, has been added to the MSX shooter arsenal. This game, by Naoki Ito from Japan, shows us the power of C compiled games for MSX. It is free to download or play online. MRC user N.I., the handle of Japanese MSX user Naoki Ito, has been busy lately making games….

Code Zero, New Homebrew Game for the ZX Spectrum

2077: The human race has stripped the planet clean. All power is now supplied by a single conglomerate – DCR Inc. Renewable energies were not enough to cope with demand. Nuclear energy became mainstream and a new isotope was identified and quickly introduced into production. By the time DCR realised the danger it was too late. The single test station,…

Gunfright Now Released for Atari 8-Bit!

Mariuszw from AtariAge recently released some News about the Atari 8-bit version of Gunfright. This new version features great music from Saul Cross, and colour overlays and loading screen prepared by Jose Pereira. The game requires a 64KB RAM machine to play, and works on both PAL and NTSC systems. It also supports CPU-upgraded Atari’s properly. For those finding the…

28 years later, a modern level editor is released for the Apple II version Prince of Persia

In 1989, Jordan Mechner released Prince of Persia for the Apple II and it was a best seller as the history tells. Later the game was ported to all computer and game platform you can think of, making it one of the most iconic games ever released. 28 years later, the original game is still fun to play, even on retro machines…

WinUAE 3.4.1 beta 05 Update, The Worlds Greatest Amiga Emulator!

Toni is back again with another new Beta version of WinUAE. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release…

Commodore 64 CSDb Scene Release Updates!

Below are all the latest CSDb releases so far from 21st March to date, click on the name of each one to view more information. Gunfright Music, Goblin Groove, Gunfright V1.00, C-Tape Calibration V1.8, Madam Psychic, That Helpless Feeling, Lunar Lander +2, We Rulez, Digital Talk #99 [german], Xavier Naidoo Logo, Allfather, Row Man Preview 2 +3, Diskplosion, Jetpac Wars…

The Sky is Falling, New Game from Psytronik Coming Soon!

Stuart Collier (Code), Trevor Storey (Art) and Richard Bayliss (Music), are currently working on a new c64 game called “The Sky is Falling”. As the title suggests the game involves literally keeping the sky from falling! To do this you must avoid various enemies and traps including running from a massive boulder Indiana style, avoiding nasty birds, while shooting at…

ROMhacking.net Latest Updates, Rom Hacks, Translations and Conker’s High Rule Tail, A New Zelda Link to the Past Hack!

Romhacking.net have updated their website with some brand new hacks and translations patches. Some interesting ones this time round including “Adventure Island Abridged”, an improvement hack which aims to give players a modern way to enjoy the game by cutting a lot of the repeated content and adding a new mode that seeks to fix the unfairness of the original game,…

VICScript – Programming Language Interpreter

Title: VICScript v0.2 Author: Bobbi Released: 2017-03-25 Requirements: C64 or VIC-20 with 32K expansion, plus disk drive / SD2IEC Description: Novel interpreted scripting language VICScript is a simple scripting language for the Commodore 64 (or VIC-20 with 32K expansion) and disk drive. VICScript includes a minimal line editor which may be used for editing program text (or editing short text…