Category: News
Get ready for all the fun of the fair as AMIGArama’s visits Bullfrog’s ideal vision of Theme Parks in this weeks show.
Arcade Game Designer or AGD is a well-known ZX Spectrum game engine developed by Jonathan Cauldwell that makes much easier the task to develop a game for the 8-bit computer. The proof of its vert smooth learning curve is the hundreds of games already developed using AGD. We here, on ViTNO, have posted news about many of them just to…
RetroGamerNation recently held its inaugural Gamers’ Choice Award for Amstrad CPC games released in 2018, allowing players to choose up to 3 of their favourite games from a list of 13 nominees. Held across multiple internet sites, including VITNO, the poll was able to garner 225 vote submissions to allow a broad spectrum of views to be expressed. Well the…
This month, the C64 demoscene had 17 new demos released, including one-file demos e full demos. After watching all of them, I came up with my eight favourite ones, following my taste as a guide. The best one is OMG got Balls! by OMG, followed by Monomania by Offence, with excellent effects, colourful graphics and superb chiptunes. Both were released…
Could this be the longest named arcade game ever created? All part of the B-Movie sci fi fun in this weeks AMIGArama!
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
