Category: News
Early this week we talked about the 2nd Annual Atari Homebrew Awards, including Atari 2600 categories but now also Atari 7800 and Atari 8-Bit/5200. As of today and through Jan 28th, you can cast your votes for your favourite game of 2019 on Atariage, following the link below. In the same thread, you can find links to download the games….
Who Dares Wins for MSX2, a remake of the ’86 game Who Dares Wins 2 by Alligata, was launched in 2017 as a physical copy. If you haven’t had the chance to purchase or simply don’t have a real machine, you can now download the game for free. Retroforce has announced the great news at the 56th Barcelona MSX meeting, which…
If you hang out on the ZX Next Facebook group, it is relatively common to see people asking how to buy it if you are not a backer of the first campaign, which points to an increasing interest in the machine we learn to love to wait (!) It looks like there is still hope for those that missed the…
Welle:Erdball has been making music for almost 30 years, and the Commodore 64 has been an integral part of their unique sound since the beginning. Joerg and AJ talk to W:E members Honey and MissMoonlight about their musical process, what it means to them to be able to create art at this level, and the importance that the C64 plays…
How much silliness you can fit in 4Kb? Ausretrogamer, the Australian retro gamer e-zine, has announced the 2020 Reset64 4Kb game coding competition. As the previous editions from 2016 and 2018, the theme is “craptastic”, and we have to quote Ausretrogamer post as it explains it properly: “Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and silly”. My…
World of Commodore is an annual gathering for …err… Commodore computers enthusiasts. The 16th edition happened last December 7th, 2019, in Toronto, Canada. I was suppose to go but at the last minute I had to cancel and was pretty annoyed to miss it. Thankfully, the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG), show organizer, just published the presentation videos on YouTube….
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 20th January 2020. 2020-01-20 new: Sol Negro (Opera Soft) done by CFOU! (Info) 2020-01-20 improved: Lorna (Topo Soft) uses less chip memory, stack relocated, manual included (Info) 2020-01-20 improved: B.A.T. (UBI-Soft) crash with parallel port fixed, quitkey for 68000…
Organized by ZeroPage Homebrew, The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion, Mark/Space | Project Argon and AtariAge, the 2019 Atari Homebrew Awards nomination phase is complete and now the voting will start soon. The award is given to homebrew games created by all Atari 8-bit platforms in 2019, including VCS 2600, 5200/8-bit in the same category, and 7800. The categories are: Atari…
The amazing work by the Atariage user rensoup (and many others) continues and he has released the second playable level of the classic Prince of Persia. The update includes: one playable level (L2) PMG overlays with repositioning for the player (not for the enemy yet) preliminary music by Vinscool a lot more animation frames redone by TIX fix: random button…
In its update #56, the ZX Spectrum Next team comes with great news, saying that the Next is about to ship and the first 500 units were produced already and are currently being tested. Since the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter campaign was funded in 1987, or it was 2017? I can’t remember anymore ;), it is possible that many of…
