Category: News
Not long ago, I posted about the development of Angry Birds for the Apple II, including the gameplay video showing it in all its glory! One of the things that most impressed me when I saw Angry Birds was how low-resolution graphics could look so good on a game. It is not the only example of excellent low-res games out…
With my busy life, this is not exactly hot news, and you all might have seen it elsewhere, but I thought it would be nice to write something about it anyways. The Apple Lisa was released 40 years ago, and although it is considered a commercial failure, it paved the way for how you interact with the computer you are…
RetroRGB is THE portal to learn all about how to get the picture the best way out of such retro consoles to your modern TVs! Robert Neal is the master behind behind this portal which is the go-to address for console info of all kind as well, thanks to its extensive Wiki which is a whole database, YouTube videos, podcast…
After having announced the judging panel (here), Planeta Sinclair posted the list of all games that will run for “best of” in different categories, including the most important: GOTY. To elect the nominees, first, the judges had to go through a list of 130 names and vote for five favourites (10 for GOTY). The result of this list is what…
Logiker’s Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2022 had more than 200 entries, which is a staggering number, and we can say the challenge was a success! Logiker has now posted a YouTube video/slide show displaying not only the results (which should be the same on all of them, of course!), but also the code that generated it. There are some very…
It looks like the emulator developers have been working hard these past few weeks. YAPE 1.2.2 was released today, bringing important changes. These are the most important new features and bug fixes that made it to this release: SID card mouse emulation (in DirectInput mode) Manufacturer-dependent RAM powerup patterns copy the emulator window to the clipboard as a bitmap the…
Following the usual end-beginning-of-the-year articles or videos showing the best of 2022, The Game Beaters YouTube channel has published a very informative video about the best NES Homebrew games of 2022. The video is a curated list of the best 10 NES games out of almost 100 games, demos and proof of concept releases for the Nintendo Entertainment System released…
(Article partially reproduced from trs8bit newsletter) This year’s competition centred on the popular Wordle 5-letter word guessing game. There were two ways to enter: write a version of Wordle for your favourite TRS-80 (the “Beauty” section) or show us how well the Wordle dictionary and answer list can be compressed (“Beast” section). Before getting into the winners, I’d like to…
The last day of 2022 brought a massive update for the excellent (and beautiful) emulator Retro Virtual Machine. Known for its exquisite interface and great emulation experience, RVM was already my to-go emulator for the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. With the release of version 2.1, I can also use it to run MSX programs and games for the Colecovision,…
