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AMIGArama Podcast Episode 75: Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters

Could this be the longest named arcade game ever created? All part of the B-Movie sci fi fun in this weeks AMIGArama!

Remastered Mojon Twins games making their way to Amstrad CPC

Bitmap Soft, a newly established software house focusing on games for vintage computer systems, are excited to announce that their debut physical release will be Chronicles of Nanako – featuring remastered versions of Mojon Twins classic games, Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle and Nanako Descends to Hell. Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle has Nanako set off on a…

Amiga Power – The Album with Attitude Kickstarter launches!

Following a month of tantalising tweets, teases and promos, the crowdfunding campaign for Amiga Power – The Album with Attitude is now live on Kickstarter. Regular readers will know that we have something of a soft spot for Commodore and its groundbreaking multimedia machine, so we were rather excited when we had to chance to talk to Matthew Smith about…

Fire, a new arcade game for the Commodore VIC-20 coming in July

Who said the VIC-20 doesn’t get the deserved love from the retro scene? To prove this is not true, DoubleSided Games has announced Fire, a new game for the computer. Fire is an arcade game that is set to be released in July 2019 where you play controlling firemen who have to rescue people from the burning houses. The publisher…

For Ember: New chiptune album totally created using an Atari 8-bits

The Czech composer Adam J. Sporka has published For Ember, a new album with 18 chiptune songs composed using an Atari 800XL computer. Most of the tracks were composed by Sporka between 2009 and 2019, but the album also includes a chiptune version of Jan Valta’s People of the Land and chiptune version of The Wasteland Wailers’ Dare Master. The…

RetroAcción announces Nintendo Game Boy game development contest 2019

RetroAcción, a Spanish non-profit association dedicated to retro computing studies, has announced a contest to celebrate the Nintendo Game Boy 30th anniversary. From the contest page: “The goal of this contest is to encourage the development of new titles and productions for the Game Boy, so the videogame can be of any genre and complexity and can be programmed in…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 74: Fantasy World Dizzy

AMIGArama and Dizzy are on a quest to save poor Daisy from the evil King Troll, but just what will they find in this 16Bit remake of a older classic?

With only 377 bytes, ChesSkelet might have broken the World Record for smallest chess program ever made!

Inspired by many previous chess games like David Horne’s ZX81 1K Chess (672 bytes), Olivier Poudade’s BootChess (487 bytes), Óscar Toledo Nanochess (392 bytes) and others, Alex Garcia has released what is probably the smallest chess program ever made, with only 377 bytes! For you to have an idea what that means, this first paragraph alone contains 389 characters! Alex…

Amstrad CPC Gamers’ Choice Award 2018 – Vote Closed

Looking back at the current generation gaming scene for the Amstrad CPC in 2018, it is hard to not be impressed by the vast range of quality titles for this great machine. Gone is the stigma of the platform being subject to quick and dirty ZX Spectrum ports, now replaced with games that are developed with care and passion to…

Clube MSX issue #4 pre-sale starts tomorrow

Clube MSX, the quarterly Brazilian printed magazine about the MSX line of computers starts this Wednesday, March 20th, to take pre-orders for the fourth issue. The first edition of 2019 is already available for purchase, with a discounted price, at the magazine’s official website. The shipment is planned to start as soon as March 28th. For international orders, please check…