Category: News

Clube MSX Issue #14 starts accepting pre-orders and is now also in English!

The Brazilian magazine Clube MSX is a common subject here on ViTNO since we love supporting their efforts to create one of the best magazines out there. One of the common messages we often receive after publishing the news is, “it looks great but too bad I don’t speak (or read) Portuguese.” Well, we are pleased to learn that the…

Duck Tales: Webby To The Rescue! A new free game for the ZX Spectrum

  N10, a small indie developer team has released today a new game for the ZX Spectrum to celebrate their love and passion for Speccy and Duck Tales.  In Duck Tales: Webby To The Rescue, Uncle Scrooge with his nephews and Webby set off for the Carpathian country, where there is a long-abandoned old castle called Fort Cockroach. Legend says…

The Complete Course to Amiga Assembly Programming

By now I hope you have all have heard of the Amiga 68000 Assembly Course, if not please read and see how you can get it. First a little story and how it all started by coincidence. I had bought the book of Fabio Ciucci in Italian called “The Complete Course in Programming Assembly on two Disks”. I read this…

New JRPG for the C64: Briley Witch Chronicles

Title screen of Briley Witch Chronicles

A long awaited Japanese-style RPG was released for the Commodore 64 on 26 October 2021: Briley Witch Chronicles, by Sarah Jane Avory. It’s a huge game, taking up more than 600 KB. To play it on a C64 you’ll need a 1 MB EasyFlash cartridge. Of course you can run it on Vice, and the Vice-based The C64 Mini and…

Prince of Persia for the Atari XL/XE – A deserved port hits the Atari 8-bit computers!

After two years of intense development, one of the most important games of all time, Prince of Persia, is now available for the Atari XL/XE. Created by Jordan Mechner, Prince of Persia was first released for the Apple II and it was an astonishing success. Some ports came after (I played the PC version) but the Atari 8-bit users never…

New Deck of Cards pays homage to the classic video games

Retrocomputaria (http://www.retrocomputaria.com.br) is a Brazilian podcast and website which has been around since 2010, talking about retrocomputing way before retro was mainstream! They launched their second crowdfunding campaign, aiming to fund the production of a classic deck of cards with classic video games as a theme. The 52 card’s illustrations pay homage to 16 video games, all of them sold…

Scene World Podcast Episode #125 – Watermelon Games – Fonzie Part 2

Welcome back Gwénaël Godde aka Fonzie! The Watermelon Games chief talks with us about his plans to port the furious Sega Genesis / Mega Drive brawler Paprium to current-gen consoles and games business in general. Turn on, tune in, drop out! (Watch out for their Kickstarter launching soon!) Interview starts at 6:38 minutes https://scene.world/watermelon This time there’s also a video…

PunyJam #2: Let’s write a text adventure!

We held a PunyInform game jam in April/May and it was a great success, so now we’re doing it again. Each participant (a person, a pair or a team) writes their own text adventure using the PunyInform library. If you’ve thought of writing a text adventure but need an event and a time frame for it to actually happen, this…

You can now pre-order your Mega65! And get it by the end of the year!

It was announced today via email that the Mega65 is available for pre-order at the Trenz Electronic webshop http://trenz.org/mega65. The price tag is €666.66 or USD 742 plus shipping. The price might scare some as it is not cheap, but based on the dev kit sold some time ago, I am actually surprised it is below 700 Euros. During the…

Dread – “Doom” clone for the Amiga 500 and Atari ST gets new video and a playable demo

Dread, a very promising clone for the Amiga 500 and 1200 just got some new developments that might interest you. The developer is making available a playable demo for you to try on your Amiga or Atari ST. On a new video published on his channel KK/Altair, the developer shows the game running on a real Amiga and using a…