Category: News
CCH curator, Jason Fitzpatrick, had the opportunity of spending the afternoon of 19 February with Rick Dickinson, industrial designer of the original ZX Spectrum, and Steve Wilcox, director of Elite Systems and the man behind the Spectrum BT keyboard. Based on the post linked below, he was very pleased with what he saw: “It’s a really nice and generally faithful…
The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2015 – CSSCGC for short (!?!) is now on. If you want to participate, the entries can be submitted until the last minute of the last day of this year – Thursday 31st December 2015, at 23:59:59. According to the organizer’s website, the CSSCGC is an annual competition designed to showcase two things – the…
I’ve downloaded the free ebook ‘It’s behind you – The making of a computer game’ by Bob Pape a while ago, but I never got around to actually read it. If you haven’t heard of it, the book was released in 2013 and it tells the story of the making of the ZX Spectrum port of R-Type. This weekend I…
Rob Hubbard has created a new Facebook page called ‘Project Hubbard’.Not much other info is on the page currently, however the domain http://www.projecthubbard.com has also been created and is waiting for content to appear soon?Is it possible we are going to be lucky enough to experience a new Rob Hubbard album release? Also posted on the Facebook page on the…
Amiga News, after reaching Cloanto for clarification, has published that Cloanto’s Michael Battilana confirmed that the company owns the copyrights for all works created by the Commodore/Amiga companies up to 1993. “The combination of the multiple agreements makes Cloanto the rights holder of not just any Amiga related products and media, but also the system software, documentation, Commodore-owned publications, videos…
Amiga News, after reaching Cloanto for clarification, has published that Cloanto’s Michael Battilana confirmed that the company owns the copyrights for all works created by the Commodore/Amiga companies up to 1993. “The combination of the multiple agreements makes Cloanto the rights holder of not just any Amiga related products and media, but also the system software, documentation, Commodore-owned publications, videos…
It’s been a while since we posted an update, we been working very hard in the Vitno vaults adding bits and pieces and getting things together for something big happening in the upcoming months. In the meantime why not check our 13 newest reviews that have just been added to the game reviews page! Missile Command, Boot Hill, Donkey Kong,…
Lostock Sports & Social Club, Works Lane, Northwich CW9 7NW Northern Lights Pinball and Arcade Club will be jointly running a pinball and arcade show this Easter Bank Holiday Weekend, Saturday 4th April and Sunday 5th April, at Lostock Sports & Social Club in Northwich. This event will feature a mixture of video gaming and pinball machines to fully re-create…
If you are one of the two that owned a Virtual Boy in the past, this news will certainly excite you! Back then, Street Fighter II, after launching on the SNES has been ported practically to almost every existing game machine including the monochrome Game Boy. Nintendo’s own Virtual Boy was probably the only one that didn’t get its version,…
Book right now your Easter week-end! Revision 2015 is coming! What is Revision?Revision is the world’s biggest pure Demoscene event with visitors from more than 30 countries and features lots of competitions – code for all available platforms, compose music, draw or animate beautiful graphics – there’s something for everybody! Revision takes place from April 3rd to 6th 2015 in…
