Category: News

ReSeT #20 – Amstrad Demoparty!

ReSeT is an Amstrad demoparty in Coutances, located in northwest France. Previously called Amstrad Expo, this party organized by Eliot / Benediction, is a real success each year since 2000. Through its convivial atmosphere, the ReSeT party is an event opened to all the computers enthusiasts no matter about their level and interest: code, electronic, graphics, music, games. You will…

Have you heard of the Apple's "Jonathan" Computer?

Stories of Apple website has published the history of the Apple’s Jonathan computer. The idea was to design a simple hardware “backbone” carrying basic operations and I/O on which the user could add a series of modules, carrying hardware for running Apple II, Mac, UNIX and DOS software, plus other modules with disk drives or networking capabilities. Apple could even…

Video: Celebrating 30 Years of the Amiga: My Top 26 Games by 'It's a Pixel Thing'

[youtube odzHl0llccI nolink] ‘It’s a Pixel Thing’ Youtube channel has published a video showing the author’s 26 favourite games for the Amiga. He goes over several Amiga classics like Stunt Car Racer, Pang, Fuzzball, Fury of the Furies, Lemmings and much more. It is a pretty good selection that brings good memories. I recommend watching the video, and even better,…

First Gaming Hall of Fame class includes Pong, Tetris, and Mario Bros.

The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, has named the first six games to its new World Video Game Hall of Fame. Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Doom, and World of Warcraft were chosen based on “popularity over a sustained period”, and other criteria. According to the Arstechnica article, the games were chosen by curators, educators and…

'Abyssonaut' wins C64 SEUCK Game Competition 2015

The end of the SEUCK Game Competition 2015 has arrived, and the results are in. Presenting its winner (drumroll), Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller. Here is the final result: 1. Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller – 171 points 2. Gigablast by Alf Yngve – 158 points 3. T-UFO by Errazking – 157 points 4. Snatch McBlagger – 156 points 5. S-F-S by…

Build your own Commodore 64 Arcade Controller

Retro Games Collector website has published a super detailed guide written by Graham Axten teaching how to build an Arcade stick for your Commodore 64. The project even includes a secondary button useful to play some of the cartridge games that were made for the doomed C64GS console. You can check the article and get started on your new DIY…

Steve Wozniak Chooses His Favorite Steve Jobs Movie, The Answer May Surprise

After Steve Jobs passing, the market was flooded of movies and books about Apple’s co-founder. The best known movie is ‘Jobs’ with Ashton Kutcher, but Steve Wozniak, who everyone would agree knew Jobs closely, doesn’t seem to like it. “I think that there were a lot of weaknesses about the ‘Jobs’ movie, the one with Ashton Kutcher, a lot of…

'ARC-AID' event being held in Cambridge, UK on June 13th

The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge will be holding the ‘Arc-Aid: Cambridge’ event on Saturday 13th June, with the aim of bringing together members of the online arcade community to repair and restore some of the museum’s arcade machines. Engineers from across the country will gather to open arcade cabinets, extract circuit boards, solder, prod and probe until the…

Lindwendture Project – Commodore 64 Adventure WIP and New Video

The strangely titled ‘Lindwendture Project’ is a new Commodore 64 adventure work in progress by master coder Enthusi and graphics genius Oliver Lindau. I have been watching this game for some time now on the German Forum 64, and also on Oliver Lindau’s Facebook page where it was announced way back in February. To be honest I didn’t take much…

Super 'Wario' Bros – New take on the Classic Nintendo Game

An interesting hack version of Super Mario Bros on the NES has been released. On this version Wario takes over instead of Mario, and the visuals are also following its new protagonist ‘style’. The patch is available to download in the link below but you will need a rom image of the original Super Bros rom, It is a bit…