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Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03 . So we were looking at reducing the gameplay from fighting games referenced on the last post.I thought the arcade Pong (1972) connects well, let’s see, as a kind of combat game, pong sports 2 players each controlling its own pad up and down and they have to bounce back a ball. The ball…
Doug Turner has released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. After more than 30 years after creating Icicle Works and Prospector Pete, Doug decided to work on a new game following the Boulderdash-style gameplay. According to Doug, The Pit was born of his desire to revisit Icicle Works and correct the mistakes he made back then, most notably the…
Quantum Sheep, the author of Jumpin’ Jupiter has released Last Train to Tranz-Central, a new game for the ZX Spectrum 48k/128k. Although in essence, the game is a puzzle-platformer where you grab collectibles while avoiding the enemies, its setting conveys an old-school Run ‘n’ Gun arcade game, which makes it pretty unique compared to some other great recent releases for…
Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle game designed by two brothers, Robyn and Rand Miller. Although it was a game with no “action”, consisting basically of exploration and solving puzzles, Myst was a huge success not only on the Mac, but also on Windows, Playstation, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, and 3DO. Behind this project that is currently on the last…
After successfully producing the book Atari: A visual Story, Darren Doyle just launched a new Kickstarter campaign, this time around covering arcade games. Coin-Op: The Arcade Guide promises to be a visually rich guide for arcade classics Chase h.q., Outrun, Galaga, R-Type II and many more games that cost us so many of our hard-earned money! The book will be…
I’ve been a regular user of VisualC64, a very good C64 emulator created by Dirk Hoffmann for macOS for quite some time. One of the main qualities of the emulator is the user interface, very user-friendly and polished. Since 2019, Hoffmann has been working on a new emulator for the Amiga 500, 1200, and 2000. vAmiga promises the same user-friendly…
July 31st was the last day for MSX developers to submit their games to the MSXDev’20 game competition. Since our previous post about the compo, another five games made their way in and are now running for the best MSX game 2020. With many good games running, our attention fell on the last submission, Bloody Mary, a game developed by…
Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03. If you have seen my other project devlogs, you probably noticed I pull a lot inspiration from that title´s primeval computer. Yes it was were I self learned to do computer games, mostly with the aid of books and magazines from those times. After finishing The Outhouse game, which mimics the COCO´s semigraphics 4…
Update: I mistakenly said the OS 8 was from 1991, but it is actually released in 1997. The 1991 reference came from the GitHub page mentioning the 1991 Macintosh Quadra running OS 8, which led me to make the mistake to assume the OS was from 1991-92. Thanks https://twitter.com/BoscoMac for the correction! In one of those projects that people ask…
Chloe Corp has finalized the keyboard design for the Chloe 280SE, a Z80-compatible FPGA computer. And in an effort to broaden its appeal, it has gone for a UNIX ten-keyless layout. Because the 280SE is such a niche machine, a fully custom keyboard was never going to be a cost effective solution. So instead the starting point was an off-the-shelf…
