Category: News
As you might know, Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD) is a game engine tool that makes easier to develop games for the ZX Spectrum. Although AGD is one of the best game engines around for retro computers, it runs on a ZX Spectrum hence it is constrained by the machine’s limitations. This week, Tony Thompson has announced on the…
I’ve been downloading and watching demos for many years now and they keep surprising me. I confess that I don’t watch them all, but I try to do it as often as my time allows me. With the month ending today, I decided to go back and check all the demos published during the month of February, primarily using CSDb…
Peter “JAC!” Dell has compiled a download package containing all programs and games presented during the Silly Venture 2k18, the 10th edition of the biggest retro scene gathering in Europe that happened last 2-4 November, in Poland. The convenient package contains four games, thirteen intros, fifteen graphics, six demos, five POKEY music files and another fifteen “bonus” files. It is…
Holger Weßling has contacted us to announce his new book: A Hobbyist’s Guide to THEC64 Mini, available in print or digital download (ePub and Kindle). Holger has collected tips and tricks, useful software, hardware and other useful information about the Mini and organized everything in this book. The guide also shows how to extend the capabilities of the mini allowing…
Released last December (2018), Retro Virtual Machine 2.0 brings ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464 emulation for Windows, Mac and Linux. To set apart from the many other excellent emulators, RVM 2.0 excels with its user interface delivering a faithful “retro” experience packed in a polished GUI. RVM works more like VMWare, Parallels or VirtualBox where you create virtual machines…
Alf Yngve has had an illustrious career as a game and graphical designer of Commodore 64 games utilising the Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) platform. Keen to let C64 enthusiasts about his upcoming title, Precinct 20: Dead Strange, Alf reached out to VITNO and provided a copy of the game to try out before its release in sometime around Q2…
Lorfarius and Hiryu swing through the air in this latest Amiga teamup, but can they defeat the evil Grandmaster in this weeks AMIGArama?
It is another freezing Canadian morning and there is nothing better to warm us up than good news (and a hot cup of coffee, of course!) As I was drinking that coffee and reading my emails, there was another update from Henrique Olifiers regarding the most-wanted (and waited) retro-computer project in the past few years! The ZX Spectrum Next keyboard…
Mr. Atari has released the version 2.02 of Atari LiteDOS targeting the Atari 8-bit family of computers. Formerly known as TinyDOS, the new version offers a fully-feature DOS for Atari machines using only 2k of RAM, feeing at least 4k for the user. LiteDOS can read Atari DOS 2.0 2.5 MyDOS and other compatible disks. Also, the file-format of a…
We chat with Matthew Smith about his exciting Amiga Power magazine-inspired remix album!
