Category: Retro News
The article has been written exclusively for Commodore is Awesome/Vintage is The New Old by Eric “Majikeyric” Hilaire, tThe developer of ‘Bug Hunt’, one of the strongest entries on the 2016 RGCD 16K Game Cartridge Competition. In September 2015, I was looking for a little game to port to the Commodore computers (not only to C64 but also Amiga and VIC20). I’m…
Retrospekt website has published an interview with John Kavanagh, the guy behind the Kickstarter campaign that aim to bring a magazine all about 8-bit machines. The article starts with “John Kavanagh is no stranger when it comes to online magazine publishing. Having produced CPC Oxygen magazine for the Amstrad community, he has a strong passion for vintage computers, particularly those…
Amicast has a 2-hour long interview with Mike Battilana, who is well known by the Amiga community from his Amiga and C64 Forever projects, but he is actually a seasoned Amiga developer since Commodore machines weren’t retro! From the podcast announcement post: “We talk with Mike, his company, and the years before and after the Commodore bankruptcy. We then chat…
Atariage forum lwiest has published an updated version of his reverse-engineered version of Atari Star Raiders on Github. This new update brings small corrections and updates, mostly based on the official game source code also released on Internet Archive. Iwiest’s version also brings an extensive documentation, which is perfect for whoever wants to learn how the game came about. Link: GithubLink:…
Since we have very angry visitors (I am looking at you Commodore community), we don’t do any prank or fake article for April 1st in respect to them. That don’t prevent us from posting something about someone else’s jokes containing a note stating that it is an April fool’s joke, of course. This one came from Apple II Juiced.GS…
RGCD C64 Cartridge Development Competition 2015 has reached the first deadline and are not accepting more entries. With 11 entries and 9 brand new games, this year’s competition is a great success. These are the 11 games: Alienator (Georg Rottensteiner) Blap N Bash Revisited (Richard Bayliss) Bug Hunt (Eric Hilaire) Icicle Race (John Christian Lønningdal) Pickle’s Pod Patrol (Steve Ody) Platman (Andrea…
ZX Dev’15 has finished its first phase where then game entries are submitted. The compo has received 15 games that you can now download, play and vote! With that many games, we can say the compo response was more than excellent and now to be completely successful, it needs your help to choose the best games. The entries are: Complica DX…
Are you ready for some shooting, killing and fun on your Amiga? Good! This new unofficial release from Amiga CD32 Alternate Covers is right for you! Run Run ‘n Gun Collection brings several amazing games ready to play, and with enhanced controls using most of the available Amiga CD32 buttons. This release contains: Toki (Ocean) Assassin S.E (Team 17) Alien 3…
The 8-bit guy YouTube channel turned on the reference of easy to understand explanations about old tech. Few months back his video entitle “How oldschool graphics worked Part 1″ was watched by more than 2 million times after it reached most of the major tech news outlets. This new release talks about the CGA graphics standard seen on many PC compatibles computer…
‘Project SIDFX’ is a new hardware expansion for any C64, SX-64, and C128 allowing them to use 1 or 2 SIDs chips, even of different models! Currently accepting pre-orders, the new board looks very powerful allowing the user to switch between SID chips while playing the tune.For now, this can be achieved via a hardware switch, but the board is prepared…
