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A new version of Atari800MacX, the Atari XL/XE/5200 emulator for MacOS is available now. This new version contains an important internal change, replacing the deprecated OpenGL with Metal, which will ensure Atari800MacX will be ready for the future versions of MacOS. Besides replacing OpenGL, the Atari emulator also had hundreds of functions reviewed and any deprecated API was updated as…
The 2020 Reset64 4kb ‘Craptastic’ Game Compo came to an end and published the contestants’ entries as a single package on itch.io. The competition hosted by Reset64 Magazine received 37 entries and based on the screenshots alone, the quality is very high. If you are not aware of the competition, don’t be fooled by the name! As the organizers explain:…
BlitzWays is a new free game for the Commodore Amiga, created by Sebastian Hartmann aka Wertstahl of Genesis Project. It consists in a matching game where the pieces you have to match need to be connected with a line that can only have two angles (or two turns if you will). This way you have to plan what pieces will…
While writing my previous post about the ZX Spectrum Next, I learned that one of the games I mentioned in the article had been released only four hours ago! Rite of the Druid is a text adventure game or using a more modern term, an interactive fiction where you are part of a small tribe, preparing to take part in…
With an emotional post on Kickstarter, Henrique Olifiers has announced that the first campaign has finally come to an end, with all ZX Spectrum Next units delivered to the backers. Everything started four years ago, when Four Henrique Olifiers, Victor Trucco, Fabio Belavenuto and Rick Dickinson embarked on this journey to bring the ZX Spectrum back to like, creating the…
For the past few days, we’ve talked a lot about the MEGA65 here and on Twitter. The reason is the start of the pre-sale for the machine Dev kits. When you read this article, the first 100 units will be likely sold out, but the interested in the project sky-rocketed and more people want to know more about it. To…
I have to confess the Atari ST doesn’t get much coverage just because we simply don’t have an in-house Atari ST expert here at ViTNO headquarters ( ST fans out there, contact me if you are up to the task!). Because of that, it was with great satisfaction that I’ve learned about a new game for the platform, RandoMazer distributed…
A month ago I saw an announcement on Facebook that ViTNO articles were available on Temporal Vortex BBS ][. I was immediately curious to see how would that work and how well (or bad) would be the experience. Bulletin Board Systems I believe that most of our readers have come from the time when the Internet didn’t exist and BBS…
The MEGA – Museum of Electronic Games & Art has announced that the first batch of development kit of the MEGA65 will be ready for pre-orders next week at Trenz-Electronic. This is a limited run aimed at developers who want to participate in shaping the final machines, which are expected to be released in 2021 or want to start producing…
Starting this month, Clube MSX is taking over the sales and distribution of other great Portuguese-speaking publications: Espectro and Jogos80. Now you can buy the new issues of both magazines in the same place Clube MSX is available (including for international customers). Jogos80 #23 is a retro gaming magazine created by Marcus Garrett and Eduardo Luccas published twice a year….
