Category: News

Unknown Plus/4 games see the light of the day

Plus/4 World has made available several BASIC games that were never available online before. The website user 264er_Fan purchased a disk collection from eBay, which had some previously unknown games on it. Six of these come from Mark Lünnemann, a German programmer, who also wrote Pyramid Guy: Crack World, Dead of Night, Diamonds Man, Gallows Man, Sticknadel, Tunnel John. The…

MSX.org near-death experience

When 2015 was coming to an end, somewhere in the MSX Resource Center headquarters the whole website saw its whole life flashes before its eyes when the server two hard disks decided to crash at the same time. We all, retro computing enthusiasts were breathless with the possibility of losing invaluable content related to MSX. The most important MSX site stayed…

ADTWin 1.3 – Transfer Amiga ADF file to real disks

ADTWin is a free tool for writing Amiga disks from a PC. It requires a Windows PC with a parallel port and a floppy disk drive that is connected to the PC’s parallel port by a self-made cable. The disk content has to be provided in form of an Amiga Disk File. Only the original double-density Amiga disk format (for 880kB disks) is…

Atari ST to Amiga Conversion – Ranarama – Coming Soon!

Ranarama is an action game developed by Graftgold in 1987 and published by Hewson Consultants. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. You see Amiga on that list? No, right? Thankfully, Galahad/FLT user on English Amiga Board decided to invest his time to make that port happen, letting all the Amiga fans to enjoy…

Atari Game Designer – Create your own Atari 8-bit games

Atari is well served by different languages allowing people to create amazing games for the platform, with Action being one of the most notorious for game development. However, for a lot of gamers that have ambition to create their own retro games, learning programming language is something hard to grasp. To fill this void, Vladimir “Popmilo” Jankovic has been developing…

TOSEC gets new update – Commodore Edition!

TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) has been updated focusing on Commodore systems, with contributions to C64 by Duncan Twain and Amiga by Crashdisk, cataloguing new software and updating existent sets to fix naming errors. For people looking forward to updates for other platforms, the TOSEC team states that other systems are being worked on, namely MSX (by VG8020), Tangerine…

FINISH HIM! Check this 'Mortal Kombat' for the Atari 2600

Mortal Kombat made history as (at the time) the bloodiest and gory fighting game. As the retro scene is always looking for a way to revive or make an homage to the classics using its favorite retro platform, it is not entirely surprising to see Mortal Kombat debuting on the Atari 2600! The feat was achieved by the Atariage user “Jinroh”. For…

John Romero's Apple II 'Time Warp' podcast episode 2 released

On Time Warp podcast, John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake) and Craig Johnston talk about the early days of games on the Apple ][, interview Apple ][ game programmers, and generally cover topics relating to Apple ][ games and history. On this episode they talk to Chuck Sommerville, creator of Apple ][ games including Snake Byte, California Games, and…

"Viva Amiga" – The Documentary Film will be released next March

After 4 years in the making, the documentary “Viva Amiga” will be finally released to the general public in March, to coincide with the 2016 SWSX (South by Southwest Film Festival). The producers of the film also state that all Kickstarter backers will get their copies BEFORE the general release. As well as access to special content, bonus clips and…

RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition Update

As pointed out by RGCD itself, it is been a long time since we’ve heard about the ’16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition’, but today they finally sent out the current status. Basically, there are 8 entries, but only 4 of them seems to have some activity with the developers sending information and a screenshot of the games. Actually, one of them, Vortex…