Category: Retro News
Erich released a new Demo/Picture Show called Botticelli Bilderdisk for the Commodore Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures. Download: botticelli_bilderdisk_41.zip Source: plus4world
The C64.com web page had an interview with Karl Hörnell. Karl worked on the following games for the Commodore 64: Fruity, Ronald Rubberduck, Velocipede, Clean-Up, Velocipede II, Fungus, Melonmania, Toad Force and Clean-Up Service. Source: c64.com
If you ever thought about trying your hands on coding Amiga demos, now you have a chance to get a jump start into it. ‘Dissident’ has released a guide about programming demos in assembler for Amiga. The guide is the result of his 25 years of experience coding for the Amiga with tips and tricks based on his own findings,…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: VChar64 V0.1.0, Galza-24 (C64 Edition), Combat Maze – Nightmare Level, Combat Maze – Alien Level, Combat Maze – Title Track, Jumpman Edit V0.9, Uni Games Preview V0.24, Regenerator 1.7 Multi System, SevenEleven, Virtuoso 0.99, 20 Years HVSC, High Voltage SID Collection v65, ASM-Version of V2 Basic Starfield Intro with smooth Scrolling (ASM…
The TransKey II is an adapter for 8-bit Atari computers that allows use of an external PS/2 keyboard. AtariAge user mytekcontrols has just released a new firmware version with significant improvements, including: A much improved PS/2 handler kernel with more solid timing Improvements to keyboard hot-plugging support A switchable US/DE key map (Ctrl+Alt+F4) Faster cursor movement As a bonus, the…
With the launch of Pokemon Go for iPhone and Android in many countries, the Internet has been flooded with all sorts of news about the game, with people playing the game everywhere. All that buzz made me think about the first Pokemon games – Red and Blue, released for the Gameboy in 1996. Yes, that is 20 years ago, which…
Space Chase has finally left the beta status and released to the public. It is the only game for the CBM II series of computers (CBM B500, B128, B256, 610, 620, 710, 720) that, according to the developer, is fully programmed in Assembler, uses the full PETSCII resolution of 160 x 50 and even uses the SID sound chip in…
Eurogamer website has published an extensive article showing how a Kickstarter campaign can go wrong, telling the story of the Recreated ZX Spectrum, which is (was?) a ZX Spectrum Bluetooth keyboard that could be connected to a companion app on mobile devices as well as on PCs, bringing the full Spectrum experience when using emulators on those devices. The campaign was…
C64.com has published an interview with Karl Hörnell, a C64 game developer back in the 80s responsible for games like Velocipede, Fruity and others. The interview gives us a nice glimpse of what was be a C64 developer at the time, telling about the development process, the tools, etc. Link: C64.com
Quartz website has reported that the Apollo Guidance Computer code was published on Github. If you are interested in both the Apollo program and programming, you will be delight to be able to go over the thousands of pages of the code that helped the man to go to the Moon. The code, according to Quartz, has been available for the public…
