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Retrocomputaria is a Brazilian retro-computing podcast and blog. The podcast is really interesting and funny and I recommend to those who speak Portuguese. For the rest of the people that don’t, you can enjoy this holiday special episode playing ‘Gradius Ultimate Collection’ released by Konami in 2011. List of the tunes: Morning Music Beginning Of The History Challenger 1985 Beat Back…
This is the second part of Ricardo’s article showing techniques to disassemble 6502 code using Redare, a modern tool that allows disassembling code in several different platforms. On this part, the author will show how to crack BC’s Quest For Tires since its copy-protection is easy to bypass. Viewer discretion is advised – Strong 6502 coding throughout the article! Link: Retro.Moe
Lupo Alberto is a game developed in Italy that has been published by Idea for the Commodore 64 in 1990, and Amiga in 1991. Amiga Power magazine game to the Amiga version a 78% score. The magazine review summarizes well the game as a “cut down Super Mario Bros. A scrolling, platform based landscape is patrolled by creatures with different intelligence and…
It’s a Pixel THING Youtube show talks about how the publishers used to sell their games back in the 80s: Cover art, magazine adverts and posters! In the 80s, and even early 90s, graphics weren’t, at all, the selling point of a videogame. Covers and adverts on magazines were! Let’s take a look at some examples on how to sell…
Blake Patterson has published on ByteCellar Vintage Weblog showing off his take on the best Christmas demos for several different platforms, including MSX, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and more. “I got my first computer, a TI-99/4A, on Christmas morning, 1982. I was 10 years old, and from that Christmas on, it was games and hardware I wanted Santa to leave…
Released last October, the Amiga special GoodGame show tells the story of the Amiga in a very nice production. Good Game is an Australian television gaming programme produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The feature goes over the main games that help make the Amiga the greatest game computer of that time (maybe even today!). If you haven’t watched…
Arthur Jordison has released the version 3.6.0 of his great Commodore all-around IDE which is, in my opinion, the best IDE for Commodore platform for Windows. New features in this version: General editing improvements (select to end, screen etc). Comment blocks. Debugger now shows effective address of next instruction. Assembler: Reporting of page boundary crossings for branching instructions. Choose character…
Aric Wilmunder, the interviewee of Antic Podcast Interview 104, is the creator of the real ‘Star Raiders II’ for the Atari 8-bit. The game was never released, until now. The creator has posted on Internet Archive the unfinished game (ATR file), alog with a guide to controls in the game and “The Authoritative Star Raiders II”, Aric’s description of why the…
The #msxdev Compo is a MSX software competition in which all sorts of MSX software is allowed, from games to utilities running on any MSX model. Unfortunatelly, this year’s compo was cancelled due to the lack of interest – the compo didn’t get a single entry so far. Most likely, there won’t be any other editions in the future, according…
This is a lovely cute Xmas game (2D platformer) designed for Xmas 2015. The author, Nitta Mituaki, is a “Jet Set Willy” clone game collector, so this Christmas he send us this special gift which was created by map editor of “Jet Set Billy” coded Niilo Paasivirta. All graphics and music were made by Mituaki. To complete the game, you (Santa…
