Category: News

Saboteur! 2 – ZX Spectrum 128k beta release!

Most of you that know me, will know that I am an avid Commodore fangirl, with much knowledge of everything Commodore. This might be why I decided to create the website Commodore is Awesome! However Commodore isn’t my only Forté and I have a great love for many other Retrogame formats including Amstrad, Acorn and the Sinclair Machines. One particular…

Falling Blocks – New Tetris Game for ZX Spectrum!

Peter McQuillan (soiaf) from World of Spectrum forums is relatively new to coding, he started learning to code in z80 assembly only earlier this year, reading Jonathan Cauldwell’s “How to write ZX Spectrum Games” and from reading articles in the development section of WOS. However within this short amount of time, he has come up with a fantastic new Tetris…

ReSeT #20 – Amstrad Demoparty Results

Early June we announced about ReSeT #20, which is a yearly Amstrad demo party, organized by Eliot / Benediction. The party is over and the results are in! Combined Demo/IntroSlideshow Paint ASCII CPC Intro ASCII 1K  GraphicsBat-Moule by Beb & HicksCondense loves Pulpo Corrosivo by CeDBora-Bora by SiccaReSeT XX by CeDMammouth by Barjack & GrimLines Up Forms Fill Yeah!! (Amstrad…

Atari Gamer Magazine Limited Printed Edition by 'pro(c) Atari' is Available Now

The people behind the Atari magazine pro(c) Atari has released a special printed edition of the PDF Magazine ‘ATARI GAMER XL/XE Game Review Edition’ created by Darren Doyle. The 72-page magazine will feature: Atari Time Tunnel Atari Fun Facts 2 Interviews System Focus on 130XE Atari 8bit Trivia 60 Game Reviews Atari Computers in Europe in the 80’s 8bit Lost…

Analogue Nt – brand new 'NES' Console uses same hardware as the original Nintendo classic!

Analogue Nt is a new video-game console that can play both NES and Japanese Famicom that also supports accessories from the NES Zapper to the Famicom Disk System. The new console is built from a single solid block of aluminium, and differently than other new NES-compatible consoles, like the Retro 5, the Analogue Nt is built with the original hardware…

Hackersoft/CiA Exclusive release! BIONIC NINJA +23D

BIONICNINJA+23D crazy trainer hack is the standard game of Bionic Ninja by Zeppelin Games but with additional 23 in-game features that have been added by Hackersoft. The GameIcarus Earth defence base is under attack.Estimate time to total occupation 1.5 hours.Deploying Ninjabot 1 to infiltrate base and eradicate alien infestation.All units are declared expendable. Projected Attack Route:1. Jungle Terrain2. Cavern Entrance3….

Amiga Reloaded – New Amiga Motherboard from Individual Computers

Individual Computers is developing a new Amiga motherboard. The features are: Form factor: A500 case. Chipset: AGA chips Alice, Lisa and Paula. CPU: A1200-compatible CPU slot. Power supply: 14 – 19 VDC. Video: 15kHz RGB / Indivision AGA MK2. Audio: 3.5mm stereo jack. Keyboard: A500 / A1200. ROMs: 1 MB flash ROM. Floppy Disk: PC disk drive: IO Subsystem: 32-bit,…

FPGA: Minimig-AGA-Core 1.0 for MiST Board

A new core for the MiST is now available. Features supported chipset variants : OCS, ECS, AGA chipRAM : 0.5MB – 2.0MB slowRAM : 0.0MB – 1.5MB fastRAM : 0.0MB – 24MB CPU core : 68000, 68010, 68020 kickstart : 1.2 – 3.1 (256kB and 512kB kickstart ROMs currently supported) HRTmon with custom registers mirror floppy disks : 1-4 floppies…

Foxtail – New Beautiful Pixel Perfect Adventure aims for Steam Greenlight!

If you like oldschool adventure games such as Legend of Kyrandia, Kings Quest and Monkey Island, this game will be perfect for you! Quest is stylized for old-school point`n`click adventures, like “The Legend of Kyrandia” and “King`s Quest”. Complex puzzles and old school pixel graphics. All animations are made by hand, pixel by pixel. No shaders, Motion-blur, bokeh and other…

Skool Daze Amstrad CPC Port – Beta 4

Skool Daze is a computer game released by Microsphere in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 computers. It was written by David and Helen Reidy, with graphics designed by Keith Warrington. The game was commercially and critically successful, and praised for its original concept. It has since been regarded as one of the pioneers of the sandbox game…