Category: News
Engadget has published an extensive article about the Nintendo Playstation, which first appeared back in July. A lot of people were skeptical about the Frankenstein machine equipped with CD-ROM and SNES cartridge slot. Could it be real? Well, it is! “The “Nintendo PlayStation” is now the stuff of gaming legend, with reportedly only about 200 prototypes ever produced. But, as…
DurexForth is a modern implementation of the language Forth for the Commodore 64, and the team behind its development has just released the version 1.4.3. This new version brings bug fixes and some new additions. If you never tried, Forth is a language very different than the traditional ones, so to speak. Compared to C64 Basic, Forth is more attractive in…
Star Raiders is one of the most pleased games released for the Atari 8-bit machines. Created by Doug Neubauer, it was released in cartridge form by Atari in 1979. It was big news last week (yeah, I know, I am late) that Kevin Savetz had received the full source code listing of Star Raiders, and he was about to scan…
Antic podcast is internationally known for its amazing interviews with who made history in the microcomputer industry. On the last episode, Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold has launched a contest that will run for all month of November. Whoever transcribes the most ANTIC interviews from 11/1/15 to 11/30/15 will win a Defender cartridge for the Atari 400/800/XL/XE computers…
A2heaven is a webstore selling modern hardware for the Apple II line of computers, include the IIe and IIc, including the Apple IIC VGA NTSC, allowing to connect VGA monitor to your IIc, and the SDFloppy II, and Disk II emulator that uses SD Card as storage media. Check it out the new store following the link below. Link: a2Heaven
The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes is a 1995 Japan-exclusive action game for the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo). Contrary to several bad Spiderman games, “Lethal Foes” is a great game, with great graphics and action. It is too bad it was never released in North America. Following the motto “better late than ever”, the game was recently translated by fans to…
QUOD INIT EXIT is a new fast-paced game for the Commodore 64. There you control a little pig running and jumping the platforms to get the “good” food, and avoid the bad ones. As you eat, the gauge at the bottom fills up. As soon it gets completed you will have to jump onto the toilet seat to be sent to…
Amigaville Issue #1 is out – A new Amiga-oriented PDF magazine, created by Brian Hedley. It contains game reviews covering Legend of Kyrandia, T-Zer0, Micro Machines, Arcade Pool and Archer Macleans Pool. The main feature talks about the future of the Amiga, tackling new hardware and modern software for the Amiga. It is a really nice and well-done magazine, and…
Eidothea – The Daughter of Protheus is the newest entry for the SEUCK Sideways Competition 2015, released today. Developed by Errazking and music by Richard Bayliss, the game follows the traditional Sideways shooter. The graphics are good, but the sound effects are the highlight of the game. Unfortunately, the collision handling is far from perfect and sometimes you can see you can fit in…
A2Central has let us know that UltimateMicro will begin shipping pre-orders of their new 8Meg IIGS RAM Card v2.0 starting next week. Priced at USD $249 in their store, there will also be a $279 Buy It Now option via eBay. The design of this card started out as a clone of the CVTech 8MB card, but it’s an entirely new…
