Category: Retro News
The MEGA – Museum of Electronic Games & Art has announced that the first batch of development kit of the MEGA65 will be ready for pre-orders next week at Trenz-Electronic. This is a limited run aimed at developers who want to participate in shaping the final machines, which are expected to be released in 2021 or want to start producing…
Starting this month, Clube MSX is taking over the sales and distribution of other great Portuguese-speaking publications: Espectro and Jogos80. Now you can buy the new issues of both magazines in the same place Clube MSX is available (including for international customers). Jogos80 #23 is a retro gaming magazine created by Marcus Garrett and Eduardo Luccas published twice a year….
In recent years, I became more conservative posting about crowdfunding campaigns, not because they are not worth but because I felt the retro scene was somehow overflooded by many different projects. The increase is natural and many of the recent projects I’ve seen seem to be very good. This time around I’ve decided to make an exception to my own…
Yandex Retro Games Battle 2020 is an annual game development competition for retro computing fans targeting the ZX Spectrum that started last year. The success was so astounding that the organizers have decided to make the 2020 edition. Open to individual or teams from anywhere in the World, the contest rules (link at the end) are very simple. The contestant…
Planeta Sinclair is the most important source of news and technical articles exclusively dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Portuguese-speaking community. Behind its success is André Leão, a very passionate Speccy enthusiast living in Portugal. For the past week, we’ve been chatting about our websites and other projects and decided to make a cross-interview where I talked about…
Defined by the developer, VergeWorld: Icarus Rising is a sci-fi shoot’em up, racer game with exploration elements. However the game is still in development, Retro Bones has released a playable demo. In this demo version, you have to pilot Icarus trying to beat the Death Run challenge, which is a race against the time through one of the planet’s canyons….
Games That Weren’t has just announced that the collector Ken “Dutchman2000” Van Mersbergen has found and preserved the long lost AtariSoft conversion of Joust, a successful arcade game released in 1982 where you control a knight riding a flying ostrich. The game was ported to many platforms, like the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Lynx,…
Like many places that rely on public gathering, the Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle was hit financially hard after it had to temporarily close its doors back in March. Unfortunately, the closure now is permanent. Early this week, the museum organizers announced that they made the very difficult decision to suspend all operations of Living Computers: Museum +…
Yazzie MSX Remastered is the fourth entry running for the best MSX game of 2020, contest organized by MSXDev since 2003. Developed by RetroSouls, Yazzie is a colourful puzzle-platform game where you have to find the best way to grab the gold while avoiding the enemies that get on your way as well as mines placed strategically to prevent you…
Holger tells us about his time publishing and writing books and software for the Amiga under Data Becker and later on other publishing houses. He talks a lot about the atmospheres and little stories and background about the times of computer book / software publishing in the 90s and throughout his book publishing today including the books for the C64…
