Category: News

RPG for the Apple II, Mac, and PC ‘Nox Archaist’ Kickstarter is LIVE!

The 6502 Workshop team is pleased to announce that the Kickstarter campaign for the boxed edition of Nox Archaist is now live! Click here to pledge! What’s better than a brand new, hand-coded 8-bit classic 80s era tile based RPG?  Answer: One that comes in an awesome collector’s edition box with lots of cool physical goodies! What’s even better than that?  When…

Joe Decuir’s VCF East 2019 Keynote is now available – The designer of Atari early computers tells his story

On this last weekend, I was at VCF East for the first time and the whole experience was a blast. I plan to talk more about on a specific article but while that doesn’t happen, I am happy to say that one of the main presentations of the show is already online: Joe Decuir’s keynote. Joe Decuir is a key…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 80: Super Off Road

Lorfarius gears up in his monster truck alongside the Amiga’s Ironman, for this weeks Super Off Road trip.

Impressive Shoot’Em Up Submitted for RGCD C64 16K Cart Competition

The 2019 edition of the RGCD C64 16K Cartridge Game Dev Compo has already attracted a number of commercial grade titles for the Commodore 64 but Sarah Jane Avory has looked to set the benchmark with her submission of Neutron, a fast paced vertical shoot’em up. Featuring: 9 challenging stages of increasing difficulty. Player weapon upgrades. 3 different background styles….

Commodore 64 Graphics Slide Show – April 2019 – A virtual visit to an art gallery!

While The best of Commodore 64 Demoscene video for April releases might be a bit delayed because of my trip to VCF East, we are launching this month another surprise for all the retro computing enthusiasts: a slide show displaying all graphics releases from last month. The C64 community has been releasing astounding illustrations for many years and for a…

Teaser for Run Demon Run revealed

Trevor “Smila” Storey provides a brief glimpse of this new C64 title in development!

New Psychedelic Space Invaders game makes its way to Commodore 64

The New Dimension (TND) is pleased to announce the release of Let’s Invade 2, a space invaders inspired game for the Commodore 64 with a psychedelic twist. Being specifically produced for the RGCD 16KB Cartridge Game competition 2016, Let’s Invade 2 is a sequel to the original game released back in 2016. Developed by prominent C64 coder Richard Bayliss, Let’s…

Amiga platformer “Trap Runner” Source Code has been released

Trap Runner is an excellent Amiga platformer game released in 2018 at the Function 2018 demo party. Developed by Frank and Gerrit Wille of Night OWL Design, Trap Runner was well received by the community including us – Alec Foster reviewed it back in September 2018. Following their “tradition” the full source code has been released under a Public Domain…

Pre-production Amiga 1000 Development System “Zorro” has surfaced

On the Amiga Love forum, Eric Hill has published a comprehensive report of a pre-production Amiga 1000 he has acquired. When the computer (or game) industry releases something completely new, it is not a surprise that many development systems are sent to selected development companies to create the initial software line-up for the machine. Following that standard practice, Commodore had…

Amicon Games to Launch with New PacMan Inspired Game for C64

Amicon Games are pleased to announced that, in partnership with Psytronik Software, they will be publishing Chaos Generator, their first game for the Commodore 64 developed by the Icon64 team. Chaos Generator is best described as a PacMan clone with a twist. As you start moving your character around the maze, you will notice that not all of the music…