Category: News
The already traditional New Year Disc compilation just released its 14th edition, containing a plethora of good for the Atari 8-bit enthusiast. In the 6-disk compilation made by Ralf “PPs” Patschke you will find two games and several graphics and intros. The compilation contains works by Filippo “Philsan” Santellocco, Michal “Miker” Szpilowski, Mario “eMKay” Krix, Pawel “Sikor” Sikorski, Steve ”…
Retro gamers looking to add something to their collection of gaming memorabilia should definitely take notice of Royal Mail’s latest collection of special issue stamps. The new collection – available from January 21st – features some of the most iconic video games from UK history, including Lemmings, Sensible Soccer and Populous. The stamps are available in a presentation pack (£14.25),…
Released in 1996 as a sequel to the equally impressive Tower of Doom, Shadows Over Mystara is a surprisngly in-depth fusion of side-scrolling beat ’em up and action RPG set within the D&D universe. I still can’t imagine people standing/sitting at an arcade cabinet for 90 minutes, but it’s a thoroughly compelling experience, particularly when played with friends! Players must…
It’s been roughly four months since our last update on Bomb Jack DX, a Bomb Jack Arcade fan remake for the Commodore 64. We are all still waiting patiently for a final release. Retrofan has shared News on Beta 7, which shows us various new improvements and some other lovely additions, including: Complete new (more aggressive) AI for flying saucer…
One of the most common requested features missing from THEC64 and THEC64 Mini is the ability to add your own games to the carousel without having to mod the unit. Well, thanks to the Megastyle team (Mancave, Exploding Fish, Bruce Lee: Return of Fury) this will soon be possible. Rotteroy from Megastyle has announced via his Twitter feed: We have…
Gabriele Gorla from GGLabs has released a new terminal application for the Commodore 64. GGLabs Terminal v0.18 emulates a VT100 terminal displaying 80 columns on a Commodore 64. It requires a UART cartridge with the 6551 chip, like GGLab’s own GLINK232T and the GLINK232 UART cartridges. Besides their own cartridges, there are many variants, most of them are clones of…
If you have in your New Year’s resolution list to finally learn assembler for the Atari but you have no idea from where to start, you are lucky! Atari Projects website has published a new quick tutorial where it teaches how to compile and run a small program written in 6502 Assembly for the Atari 8-bit computers. Written by Jason…
As I like to say, we are living another golden era for the retro computing and gaming enthusiasts, and one of the things that prove that to be true is the incredible number of events happening every year across the Globe. To keep track of that many events, many initiatives are in place on Facebook and some of the most…
Kick-Off II is one of the most difficult football (or soccer, if you’re NTSC) games to master. Oliver Stender and Frank Fuhrmann have done just that, though, and their skill has lead to them being two of the highest ranked players to take part in the Kick-Off II World Cup — championships that are still being held today. AJ and…
We announced a while ago that Bitnamic Software has recently (re)released a ZX-81 game called Treasure Quest (with the original title “Em busca dos tesouros” em Portuguese which would translate to “In the search of the treasures”). The game was developed by Tadeu Curinga da Silva when he was 16 years old. The new version is an update from the…
