Category: News
Scene World’s Merman has a look at the new bobr games: unboxing & gameplay by Nafcom
Over in the Color Computer group on Facebook, there was a post by member Phill Harvey-Smith discussing CoCo ROMs and the ROMs of the CoCo clones. Another member, Cathe Cita, responded and provided a link to this cool article about the Microsoft BASIC ROM easter eggs: The Egg that Was – CLS I was already aware of the CoCo’s “clear screen” easter egg, likely…
ArsTechnica has posted a video where Jordan Mechner talks about the development of his most successful game, Prince of Persia. In the 20-minute video, he shows some interesting bits of the development process when he was a college student, including the famous technique to design the human-like animation for Karateka and Prince of Persia and tricks used to make Prince…
On a a short and sweet tweet, the talented people at Double Sided Games are giving away the digital versions of three of their high-quality games, in a away to help us all on these difficult times. These are difficult times for many of us, forced to stay home. We’re very happy to give away digital versions of Fire for…
Bitmap Soft is excited to announce that the cassette and disk versions of the 2020 smash hit puzzle game Millie & Molly for the Commodore 64 are now available for pre-order from their online shop. VITNO featured Millie & Molly last month and having completed all 100 original game levels, we can reaffirm our original view that this is simply…
APC&TCP has announced that Tiny Little Slug, a new game for the Commodore Amiga has been released and can now be ordered from their Online Shop. The backstory to the game is that you are a tiny leopard slug who has awakened from their slumber and gone out to look for some food. Slug spots a nice looking strawberry in…
Bitnamic Software, a Portuguese-Brazilian joint-venture has announced its new exclusive ZX Spectrum release. Laserbirds is a shoot’em up game and your mission is to destroy aliens known as Ornitoids, a powerful enemy that has excellent earing and memory as well as great hierarchical organization capability. The enemy’s AI is a strong selling point of the game. The waves of Laserbirds,…
Yes, today is Friday, 13th! If you are not superstitious and you are an MSX enthusiast, today is your lucky day! Clube MSX is starting to accept orders for its eighth issue. Issue #8 will have 40 pages full of MSX goodies, including a special article about MSX soundtracks and their composers; review for the games Shoulder Blade OUTERSPACE and La…
I have to admit I am a big fan of WebMSX. We have many good web-based emulators for different machines, but I find WebMSX the only one that I can really replace a desktop counterpart without compromises. Paulo Peccin just announced on Twitter the immediate availability of a major update of the emulator. This version 6.0 brings support for the…
Without going to the merit of big companies pulling their appearances out of a major event like SXSW, it looks like the fear of the Coronavirus outbreak has reached our vintage computer community. Yesterday, the Living Computers: Museum + Labs has announced that they will be closed until further notice due to the outbreak: As a uniquely hands-on museum, this is a preventative action…
