Category: Retro News
The Brazilian magazine Clube MSX is a common subject here on ViTNO since we love supporting their efforts to create one of the best magazines out there. One of the common messages we often receive after publishing the news is, “it looks great but too bad I don’t speak (or read) Portuguese.” Well, we are pleased to learn that the…
N10, a small indie developer team has released today a new game for the ZX Spectrum to celebrate their love and passion for Speccy and Duck Tales. In Duck Tales: Webby To The Rescue, Uncle Scrooge with his nephews and Webby set off for the Carpathian country, where there is a long-abandoned old castle called Fort Cockroach. Legend says…
By now I hope you have all have heard of the Amiga 68000 Assembly Course, if not please read and see how you can get it. First a little story and how it all started by coincidence. I had bought the book of Fabio Ciucci in Italian called “The Complete Course in Programming Assembly on two Disks”. I read this…
After two years of intense development, one of the most important games of all time, Prince of Persia, is now available for the Atari XL/XE. Created by Jordan Mechner, Prince of Persia was first released for the Apple II and it was an astonishing success. Some ports came after (I played the PC version) but the Atari 8-bit users never…
Retrocomputaria (http://www.retrocomputaria.com.br) is a Brazilian podcast and website which has been around since 2010, talking about retrocomputing way before retro was mainstream! They launched their second crowdfunding campaign, aiming to fund the production of a classic deck of cards with classic video games as a theme. The 52 card’s illustrations pay homage to 16 video games, all of them sold…
Welcome back Gwénaël Godde aka Fonzie! The Watermelon Games chief talks with us about his plans to port the furious Sega Genesis / Mega Drive brawler Paprium to current-gen consoles and games business in general. Turn on, tune in, drop out! (Watch out for their Kickstarter launching soon!) Interview starts at 6:38 minutes https://scene.world/watermelon This time there’s also a video…
Dread, a very promising clone for the Amiga 500 and 1200 just got some new developments that might interest you. The developer is making available a playable demo for you to try on your Amiga or Atari ST. On a new video published on his channel KK/Altair, the developer shows the game running on a real Amiga and using a…
Teased last year, the Amiga 500 mini-console has been finally confirmed for early 2022. The new product from Retro Games Ltd, the creator of TheC64 is not surprisingly called TheA500. The new console will come with a controller, a real mouse but the keyboard is not functional (as if one could type on those tiny keys!) and a USB port…
Clube MSX magazine started on July 10th accepting pre-orders for its 13th issue. This time around, the publisher is using a crowdfunding website called Catarse to kickstart the publication. The editors explain that the decision has many reasons. One, of course, is the financial safety net that the method gives to small publishers, but more than that, Clube MSX wants…
In our new podcast episode we speak with Jeri Ellsworth, an American entrepeneur and chip designer. She is very well-known for ‘C64 Direct-To TV’, a complete Commodore 64 system on a chip housed within a joystick which was released in 2004. We speak with her about her work on TiltFive, an interesting new company focussing on AR glasses technology…Interview starts…
