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The excellent Vintage Computing & Gaming website one day decided to ask Steve Wozniak, via email, why the Apple II didn’t have support for lowercase letters and for Benj Edwards’ surprise, Woz answered with a very long and detailed explanation, which in my opinion is now an interesting bit of the computer history. We know for example, that the TRS-80…
Juan J. Martinez is again releasing a great game for free. This time he presents us with Brick Rick, a single platform game inspired by classics like Bubble Bobble. The game has 50 stages where Rick has to clear in less than 60 seconds. You can stun the enemies, so they can’t hurt you and then kick them back to…
Audio and podcast page to this episode: http://scene.world/hagenkrentz Hagen Krentz is a man who knows mechanical pinball machines a lot. He is also a co-founder of the For Amusement Arcade & Pinball Museum in Seligenstadt, Germany.Furthermore, he also used to work for the movie industry in the 90s. Join AJ and Joerg as they listen to the tales and stories…
Chris Stanley from the Megastyle Productions has announced that he is teaming up with fellow group member, Rune Spaans, to port across the Atari 2600 version of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back to the Commodore 64. Initially announced in the latest published edition of the C64 themed fanzine, Freeze 64, Stanley announced the game project to the rest of…
Sarah Jane Avory has announced the immediate availability of her new game, Zeta Wing for the Commodore 64. Zeta Wing is a shoot’em up inspired by the arcade game Gemini Wing. Sarah managed to squeeze in a C64 astounding graphics and incredible parallax effects. The game also features: 7 challenging stages, each with their own graphic style. 3 difficulty settings:…
I was pleased when I learned that another printed magazine has been launched. “Atari Fan” is a brand new, printed magazine dedicated to all ATARI computers and consoles. Previously it was only available in the Polish language but now you will be able to buy it in English. The publishers aim to release one issue every 6 months of the…
The Plus/4 was long gone from Commodore’s catalogue when Lemmings was released in 1991 for the Amiga and because they were from different timelines, the C= machine never got an official port of the game. Many of us see today brave developers porting games for platforms that the game was never meant to be in, like Super Mario Bros. for…
OpenFlops is a hardware-based floppy emulator, similar to the Gotek drives. Besides many improvements over the original, OpenFlops is available under a free licence and therefore can be built by everybody. Suitable for most retro computers that use either internal or external floppy disk drives as a direct replacement or additional drive so you can load games/software from a USB flash…
We’ve been posting many articles and tutorials about Punyinform, a C64 library that let you create Text Adventure games for the C64 using Infocom’s Z-Machine. In order to play those games on a computer, you need an interpreter and that is where Ozmoo comes about, a Z-machine interpreter for the Commodore 64 written by Johan Berntsson and Fredrik Ramsberg in…
Kay Savetz, one of the Antic Atari Podcast hosts and die-hard Atari fan has announced a new and cool project: @Atari8BitBot. The project was inspired on the BBC Micro version which was limited to BASIC, and the Atari8BitBot was created by Kay Savetz and Bill Kendrick. With this tweet bot, you can send any code in Atari BASIC, Turbo-BASIC XL,…
