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Introduction The awesome Retro Hour podcast, on its episode 190, featured a very long chat with Randy Linden, a seasoned developer who is responsible, among other things, to bring Dragon’s Lair to the Amiga, DOOM to the NES and also the creator of Bleem!, a PlayStation emulator for PC. I’ve found Randy so interesting to listen to, and his contribution…
It was announced on November 25th, that Rebellion, creators of the Sniper Elite Series (which I played them all!), acquired The Bitmap Brothers brand and portfolio, and plans to bring the classics to the new platforms as well as release brand-new games based on the beloved licenses. Described as “Gaming’s first rockstars,” The Bitmap Brothers were responsible for what many…
New entrant to the retro game publishing scene, Bitmap Soft have been busy signing up game titles to release to the market in physical cassette format. In addition to their launch titles – All Hallows (ZX Spectrum) and Chronicles of Nanako (Amstrad), Bitmap Soft have announced that they will be making available the following titles: Cousin Horace (ZX Spectrum) Gluf…
Thomas Cherryhomes, the mind behind Irata.online, has announced that he and other contributors are working hard to bring to the Atari 8-bit computers a modern way to connect them online wirelessly. The following text is an excerpt from the post on Atariage, write by Thomas himself. The device, called #FujiNet (formerly known at #AtariWiFi) is a network adapter that attaches…
If you, like me, keep planning to learn assembler for the past 35-40 years, here is another chance. Amiga Game Dev is a website that aims to teach game development for the Amiga, using Assembler. You can probably think of the site as a supplement for the author’s YouTube videos published in the channel Graeme Cowie. So far, there are…
As a retro computer collector, I know (as my wife!) that space is the most concerning aspect when you get your hands on computers like the PET, the TRS-80 Model III and many other big and bulky ones. Thanks, ZX-81 to keep the footprint small! If you also face that challenge, maybe you would be happy to have a smaller…
The Micronics is hard at work creating a new mechanical keyboard for the Amiga 500, 600, and 1200, and Liwei Guan is the person making it all happen. AJ and Joerg talk to her about how she got involved in the Amiga community, the logistics of creating a new keyboard, and the unique directions she’s taking to get this done….
MSXDev’20 could be defined by the first sentence of its rules page: “No expansions of any kind, just a first-generation MSX as it was conceived.”. With this statement, the MSXDev organizers are starting a new era (therefore the new motto) in the life of the contest, where there will be only one category and the games should be limited to…
Uchūsen Gamma is a vertical shoot’em to be released on November 29th, 2019. It has been developed by Juan J. Martinez (code, graphics and sound), known from previous releases for other 8-bit systems such as The Dawn of Kernel (Amstrad CPC), Rescuing Orc (Commodore 64) or Magica (Amstrad CPC), and the most recent Night Knight single-screen platformer for the MSX….
The Future Was 8 Bit (TFW8B) is pleased to announce the physical cartridge release of Crazy Blaster, the latest Commodore 64 title developed by Mika ‘Misfit’ Keranen. Added to the TFW8B 9.99 range of cartridges, Crazy Blaster requires you to guide your spaceship across many planet levels to destroy all outer-space enemies and rescue stranded cosmonauts. The game play on…
