Category: Retro News
During the ongoing KansasFest 2020 “online edition”, one of the most surprising presentations was the demake of MYST for the Apple II! If porting down MYST for the Apple II is a feat by itself, imagine if it was done using only low-resolution graphics? That is what Vince “DEATER” Weaver decided to do. A seasoned 6502 programmer, Deater had made…
Min and Mina Bekker have it all: an enormous YouTube following, two awesome game releases, and even an amazing love story to tie it all together. Now, they’re sitting down with AJ and Joerg to discuss their games, Black Bekker and Takelshin, how they got to be where they are, and what drives them forward. (Interview begins at 26:22) https://scene.world/minbekker
Remute in partnership with Protovision is back with a new Commodore 64 music/game bundle. This is a great chance to buy very good C64 games for cheap and get also a super cool techno music album by Remute. The games can run on a real C64, TheC64 mini / maxi or any C64 emulator on any system, like C64 Forever…
Greenboy Games is a one-man studio that has only one objective: make games for the classic Nintendo Gameboy. Behind that studio is Dan Puch, a hobbyist game developer that is passionate about the 4-shades-of-green little screen handheld. While my first idea was to write about his work, last week we talked and later he sent me via email some answers…
A new version of Atari800MacX, the Atari XL/XE/5200 emulator for MacOS is available now. This new version contains an important internal change, replacing the deprecated OpenGL with Metal, which will ensure Atari800MacX will be ready for the future versions of MacOS. Besides replacing OpenGL, the Atari emulator also had hundreds of functions reviewed and any deprecated API was updated as…
The 2020 Reset64 4kb ‘Craptastic’ Game Compo came to an end and published the contestants’ entries as a single package on itch.io. The competition hosted by Reset64 Magazine received 37 entries and based on the screenshots alone, the quality is very high. If you are not aware of the competition, don’t be fooled by the name! As the organizers explain:…
BlitzWays is a new free game for the Commodore Amiga, created by Sebastian Hartmann aka Wertstahl of Genesis Project. It consists in a matching game where the pieces you have to match need to be connected with a line that can only have two angles (or two turns if you will). This way you have to plan what pieces will…
With an emotional post on Kickstarter, Henrique Olifiers has announced that the first campaign has finally come to an end, with all ZX Spectrum Next units delivered to the backers. Everything started four years ago, when Four Henrique Olifiers, Victor Trucco, Fabio Belavenuto and Rick Dickinson embarked on this journey to bring the ZX Spectrum back to like, creating the…
For the past few days, we’ve talked a lot about the MEGA65 here and on Twitter. The reason is the start of the pre-sale for the machine Dev kits. When you read this article, the first 100 units will be likely sold out, but the interested in the project sky-rocketed and more people want to know more about it. To…
A month ago I saw an announcement on Facebook that ViTNO articles were available on Temporal Vortex BBS ][. I was immediately curious to see how would that work and how well (or bad) would be the experience. Bulletin Board Systems I believe that most of our readers have come from the time when the Internet didn’t exist and BBS…
