Category: News

Retro Gamer Nation’s Commodore 64 games Round-Up: September 2020

Louie Dimovski has published a great video on YouTube talking about the some of the most recent small commercial and freeware games for the Commodore 64. It is a great opportunity to hear about many of the new games for the C64 while taking a sneak peek on their gameplay. Louie has also added all the mentioned games links so…

Apple II Nibble Magazine is back online

The Nibble Magazine website is the place where you can buy the full collection of the Nibble Magazine and other publications. After his creator, Mike Harvey had died last year, the website went dark but after many months of work, his son Scott Harvey brought it back, revamped and offering not only the Apple II magazine but also other publications…

Going into Action! with Atari XL/XE – Part 2 – Graphics

Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program If you are following this series of articles, you could be thinking right now: “What a jump! From a Hello World…

Double Sided Games releases demo for the Amiga game ‘The Shadows Of Sergoth’

The Shadows Of Sergoth is a new Amiga dungeon crawler in a first-person view. It is based on the 2018 Amstrad CPC 6128 game by Christophe Petit & Kukulcan. Double Sided Games has released a playable demo for us to try! The game is been developed for the last 18 months by Colin Vella (code), Ten Chu (graphics), and Mike Richmond (music and…

MSXDev’20 final result was announced and we have compiled the judge’s report for the three best games

The MSXDev’20 has come to an end and, once again, presenting amazing games for the MSX. This year there were 21 participants with a wide variety of genres, from platforms to shoot’em up’s. This year’s competition focused on the MSX1 machines with its original configuration when it came out, which follows this specification: CPU: Zilog Z80 running at 3.58 Mhz…

Play Treasure Island Dizzy on your Commodore Plus/4

Treasure Island Dizzy is a game released in 1988 by Codemasters. Developed by the Oliver Twins, the game was initially released for the ZX Spectrum and followed versions for many platforms: Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, NES, Amiga CD32, Windows, and Atari Jaguar. As you can see, the Plus/4 is not in the list! Don’t sweat!…

Planet Balls – A new challenging puzzle game for the C64 that will get you hooked!

Our own @CommodoreBlog on twitter tagged me about this game and I am glad I saw it! If you like Lemmings, you gonna love Planet Balls. In this new puzzle game for the Commodore 64, your job is to guide the balls to the exit of each level either adding or removing blocks. The game has even a back story:…

Get started with C cross-development for the TRS-80 Model 1 and 3!

My first computer ever was a TRS-80 clone called JR Sysdata which I, like many of us, regrettably sold when I wanted to upgrade to something else. Today this Brazilian clone is rarer than flying cows and worth a good amount of money. Of course, we are here not to talk about childhood computers but about cross-development for the TRS-80…

Total Replay v4.0 for the Apple II adds more than 100 classic games to its collection

The mysterious Apple II hacker and software preservationist 4AM has announced via his Twitter account that a new pre-release version alpha 4 of the upcoming Total Replay v4.0 is available now on Internet Archive. This new version fixes some issues found in alpha 3, like the use of a CFFA3000 on IIgs and VidHD on IIe. It also adds more…

Atari historian Curt Vendel died at the age of 53

This kind of news is always something we don’t ever want to give. Curt Vendel, Atari collector and historian has passed away unexpectedly and too soon, at the age of 53. Very well-known by the Atari community, Curt was an avid collector and historian, having written the book Atari Inc.: Business is Fun with Marty Goldberg. Reading his biography, we…