Category: Retro News
Pedro Planas is a computer game retro composer and a YouTuber from Caracas, Venezuela. Not only he shares his passion for video and computer game music, but also gives us an inside about what is going on regarding the retro scene in his country and why it became harder in the last 11 years for the video game companies to…
The excellent Vintage Computing & Gaming website one day decided to ask Steve Wozniak, via email, why the Apple II didn’t have support for lowercase letters and for Benj Edwards’ surprise, Woz answered with a very long and detailed explanation, which in my opinion is now an interesting bit of the computer history. We know for example, that the TRS-80…
Juan J. Martinez is again releasing a great game for free. This time he presents us with Brick Rick, a single platform game inspired by classics like Bubble Bobble. The game has 50 stages where Rick has to clear in less than 60 seconds. You can stun the enemies, so they can’t hurt you and then kick them back to…
Sarah Jane Avory has announced the immediate availability of her new game, Zeta Wing for the Commodore 64. Zeta Wing is a shoot’em up inspired by the arcade game Gemini Wing. Sarah managed to squeeze in a C64 astounding graphics and incredible parallax effects. The game also features: 7 challenging stages, each with their own graphic style. 3 difficulty settings:…
I was pleased when I learned that another printed magazine has been launched. “Atari Fan” is a brand new, printed magazine dedicated to all ATARI computers and consoles. Previously it was only available in the Polish language but now you will be able to buy it in English. The publishers aim to release one issue every 6 months of the…
The Plus/4 was long gone from Commodore’s catalogue when Lemmings was released in 1991 for the Amiga and because they were from different timelines, the C= machine never got an official port of the game. Many of us see today brave developers porting games for platforms that the game was never meant to be in, like Super Mario Bros. for…
We’ve been posting many articles and tutorials about Punyinform, a C64 library that let you create Text Adventure games for the C64 using Infocom’s Z-Machine. In order to play those games on a computer, you need an interpreter and that is where Ozmoo comes about, a Z-machine interpreter for the Commodore 64 written by Johan Berntsson and Fredrik Ramsberg in…
Kay Savetz, one of the Antic Atari Podcast hosts and die-hard Atari fan has announced a new and cool project: @Atari8BitBot. The project was inspired on the BBC Micro version which was limited to BASIC, and the Atari8BitBot was created by Kay Savetz and Bill Kendrick. With this tweet bot, you can send any code in Atari BASIC, Turbo-BASIC XL,…
Louie Dimovski has published a great video on YouTube talking about the some of the most recent small commercial and freeware games for the Commodore 64. It is a great opportunity to hear about many of the new games for the C64 while taking a sneak peek on their gameplay. Louie has also added all the mentioned games links so…
The Shadows Of Sergoth is a new Amiga dungeon crawler in a first-person view. It is based on the 2018 Amstrad CPC 6128 game by Christophe Petit & Kukulcan. Double Sided Games has released a playable demo for us to try! The game is been developed for the last 18 months by Colin Vella (code), Ten Chu (graphics), and Mike Richmond (music and…
