Category: News
As we announced last October, Monty on the Run is now available for the Atari XL/XE. The game was officially released at the Silly Venture 2019 Party that happened last weekend. As promised the game is now available for free and can be downloaded from pouet.net. The game consists of a conversion from the 16Kb version released for the Commodore…
That’s not the first time Fusion Retro Books does a promotion like that, but it is always welcome to see good books for free or very cheap. Some of their “In Pixels” books are free, including C-64 In Pixels and The Story of the ZX Spectrum In Pixels Volume 1. The next two volumes of the Speccy series are only…
The Yandex Museum, located in Moscow Russia, launched a retro games contest in July, seeking new game submission for the ZX Spectrum by 5 December 2019. The contest has proven to be quite popular with 19 games submitted and now you have until 11 December to try out all the entries and submit your vote. Browsing through the submissions there…
Retro Games Limited has announced via TheC64 Facebook page that TheC64 will start to be dispatched on Monday 9th December 2019 to original backers. Those that backed the project back in 2016 via Indiegogo or pre-ordered through TheC64 web site will finally receive their long awaited units within the next week or so, albeit in a different format and functionality…
It was released a few weeks ago a new episode of the Apple Time Warp podcast, a show hosted by John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom… you know him) and Craig Johnston. The podcast has a sparse schedule, with only eight episodes published in the last 6 years. This year, however, they managed to release two episodes, and with very prominent…
Birgit “Bigi” Lechtermann is a German TV moderator, book writer and media trainer which talks in this interview about pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows “Computer Corner” & “Technik-2000″ which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more…
I remember when I acquired my Plus/4 I had to pay a good price for a TED chip so this is huge for the C16 and Plus/4 owners! From RetroHax.net: “This time it is not a story but rather a piece of news. Willy/Lamers and me, we are working on a TED replacement project. As we all know, TED is…
The 4 Masters of Melody, the first game created by the Clube MSX magazine, is getting a well-deserved cartridge release. The launch will happen on December 7 and 8, at the MSX SP 2019, an event for MSX enthusiasts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The boxed version of the game brings small graphic enhancements, a printed manual (Portuguese and English) all…
I’ve been dedicating some of my time learning about Atari 8-bit programming mostly through old Atari books you can find all over the Internet and they are a very good source of information for sure! However, it is nice to see that there are some modern efforts to keep the subject fresh and up to date. One of the most…
R-Type was published in 1988 by Electric Dreams Software for the ZX Spectrum 48k, and they made an excellent job with it. However, due to the hardware and memory limitations, the game was released without music, which was a big part of its frantic gameplay. This weekend, a new mod for the classic game was released trying to close the…
