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To celebrate 2016, it was released a new edition of the ‘New Years Disc’ by the Atariage user ‘pps’. It is a 5-disc compilation of great graphics, demos, games and music put together for your entertainment. The contents of the pack: Disc 1 – multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density) ——————————————– Getting into 2016 (3 screener) by miker & PPs Chi Bao (sound)…
Officially starting on January 1st, Retrochallenge ‘Winter Warmup edition’ is again running full speed. The competition will run from January 1st to the end of the month. Blog entries should be complete by midnight on Sunday 31st January GMT. If you are still thinking on participating, email mark at wickensonline dot co dot uk with your name (or handle) a brief synopsis of…
With the short and compelling instruction – Crash everything that gets in your way. Collect points for that. Exchange the points and bonuses for cute hearts. And go and buy more cars and tracks in the flower shop – Anarcho Ride is an arcade game in its roots. Developed in GFA-BASIC the game shows bright colours and fast-paced action. A nice…
Lavadeira.net has a long-run series of articles teaching C Programming for the MSX machines. These are the latest articles: #40: Functions in MSX-C (Part 1) Functions. Declarations, definitions and externs. How to define functions that don’t take parameters. Functions declared locally inside other functions. #39: Graphic characters and additional quoted symbols The MSX graphic characters and the 2-byte sequences to…
Petscii-Poker, developed by the group Software of Sweden, was released a while back and now has been updated delivering faster gameplay and also miscellaneous bug fixes. As the name suggest, it is a poker game that uses PETSCII characters to represent the graphics, with very impressive results. The background music is another welcome touch that creates a nice mood to…
It is January already but it is never late to know about Apple II presents you can buy for yourself. This issue features a review of the Uthernet II networking card; an interview with anonymous cracker 4am; Lucia Grossberger Morales’ recounting of her collaboration with Bob Bishop and the creation of SpaceLace; an examination of how ProDOS deletes and undeletes…
The Atariage user mariuszw has posted his work developing Pentagram, the final game in Sabreman saga, and it is a sequel to well known Knight Lore. He mentions that the game is being ported from the ZX Spectrum (as the images make that clear), and the most impressive thing about that is that he has developed a recompiler that takes the…
Almost time to slice the turkey and celebrate the new year and I just had a pleasant surprise: Amigaville issue 3 is out. Amigaville issues 1 and 2 had a staggering reception from the Amiga community and that was well deserved for being a magazine made with high-quality articles and professional finish. Amigaville issues 1 and 2 had a staggering…
Nothing like a good brainless shot’em up game to celebrate 2016, eh? If you agree you should try Flying Cobra RX, released today by The New Dimension. The game is very fast and the smooth animation, impeccable! I recommend the joystick instead of the keyboard if you can, as the game is harder using the keyboard. The sideways missiles are…
WHDLoad is a software package for the Amiga platform to make installation of software to a hard disk easier, for such things as demos or games. Recently it was announced that WHDLoad is now free which certainly brought more attention to it. Timely, the ByteCellar Blog has published a good introduction to WHDLoad. It is a must read and an…
