Category: News
The summer releases from Teknamic Software have arrived, the Portuguese publisher dedicated to supporting the publication of new games for old platforms, and to reissuing classics as a tribute to their creators and pioneers. With these three new releases, Teknamic has stepped up a notch in terms of the cassette presentation. Instead of the usual paper insert for the cassette…
Article originally published on TRS8Bit Newsletter – September 2020. Reproduced here with permission. Author: Ira Goldklang – www.trs-80.com 1. Make sure your volume is set right. With regard to the volume, first listen to the tape and see if it sounds right. If you have a treble control, you probably want maximum treble. Once it sounds good, then you can…
Carleton Handley has announced that all his games, including the modern blockbusters Millie and Molly and Runn ‘n’ Gunn are now available as a free download over his itch.io page. These games were a huge success when released, but if you haven’t played them yet, here is your chance! Carleton is a Commodore 64 seasoned game developer who started his…
How about a relaxing game where your objective is only to take care of and develop your farm? I know there are plenty of these games for modern platforms and mobile phones, but maybe you want to try it using your ol’ pal Amiga! Farmiga has been in development for a while by the Polish developer Tukinem using AMOS, and…
Cacorm is one of those games that surprises me in a good way. At a glance, it seems like “one more of those” types of games, but when you start playing it, you see how clever and enjoyable it is! The gameplay is very simple. You control your hero around the screen and your objective is to retrieve the stars…
openMSX version 18.0 has been released, bringing support for a new machine, the Sega SG-1000 console. Although not an MSX machine, the console has a very similar architecture, allowing the emulator to support it. Besides the new console, the new version includes several bug fixes aiming to improve the overall emulation perfection. The emulator can be download for free and…
It’s time again for a new episode and this time we welcome Dixon Wu! He is the founder of the RETRO.HK Gaming Expo and an avid videogamer since earliest childhood days. Currently residing in Hong Kong, Dixon is an Entrepreneur, UX/Gaming Consultant + Designer, who has taken part in numerous mobile applications, online game platforms and startup projects as…
In the new episode of our podcast we are very happy to welcome again the one and only David Pleasance! The prolific Ex Commodore + Amiga executive (and musician!) gives us some exclusive , spicy insights and tells us about the German translation of his book ‘Commodore – The Inside Story’. (Interview starts at 22:40 minutes) Listen to it/watch it…
“Logiker” has been running some amazing competitions for people to show off their art skills using the low-res characters available on the 8-bit computers, including PETSCII (Commodore), and ATASCII (Atari). This time around is another chance for the Amstrad CPC enthusiasts to display their artwork in the 2nd AMSCII Compo! The compo is an online event and will run throughout…
















