Category: Retro News
It’s been some time in the making, but the Adventure II XE for the Atari 8-bit is almost ready to be released. This is what Cafeman tells us in today’s update in a thread that started in 2013 while making available a demo version for all of us to try. Adventure II XE, a homage to Warren Robinett’s original Atari…
Intellivision was one of the absolute pioneers in the video game industry, starting all the way back in 1979 with the original Intellivision console. Now in 2020, they’re back with a new console called the Amico, which promises to rekindle some of the actual fun that video games used to be. AJ and Joerg talk to Intellivision CEO Tommy Tallarico…
Imagine an alternative 1987. IBM never bothered to enter the microcomputer market. Apple has yet to launch the Macintosh. A new generation of 16-bit computers aimed at people who grew up with 8-bit machines is on sale. The IIGS from Apple, the Amiga from Atari, the C65 from Commodore. But the MSX Turbo-R is still in development. There’s a small…
Who said simplicity is the same as “not fun”? If you’ve grown up playing some of the Nintendo Game&Watch, you know what I am talking about. The games are very simple, usually with one or two gameplays, but their core arcade design that demands a lot of the player in eye coordination and dexterity delivers hours of fun without much…
Kaz Compo is a traditional celebration for the Atari homebrew developers promoted by Atarionline.pl where the best games of the year are chosen by popular vote. The results for the 12th edition have come out. The best game of 2019 according to the voters is The Rescue Expedition. Created by Kamil “Gorgh” Trzaska, Michał “Caruso” Brzezicki, and Krzysztof “Kaz” Ziembik…
One of the most expected and respected contests in the retro computing community is turning 10 years old and ready to roll! The Tenth Edition of the BASIC 10-Liner has started and already waiting for your submission. This edition’s rules are pretty much the same as last year’s. BASIC games can be written for all 8-bit computers, as long they…
With a myriad of Kickstarter campaigns, ones successful, others not so much, the retro computer enthusiasts grew weary of them and are thinking twice to back new projects. This is unfortunate because KS is a legitimate way to fund a project that otherwise would never see the light of the day. Being one of these projects, the Museum of Electronic…
Jan Derogee one day discovered that resistive touch panels (meant to be used in combination with LCD screens of the same size) were relatively easy to buy and fairly cheap. He then started to imagine how it would be like to use such a touch panel for controlling his PC and (most importantly! ) C64, instead of a regular mouse. The idea to…
Early this week we talked about the 2nd Annual Atari Homebrew Awards, including Atari 2600 categories but now also Atari 7800 and Atari 8-Bit/5200. As of today and through Jan 28th, you can cast your votes for your favourite game of 2019 on Atariage, following the link below. In the same thread, you can find links to download the games….
Who Dares Wins for MSX2, a remake of the ’86 game Who Dares Wins 2 by Alligata, was launched in 2017 as a physical copy. If you haven’t had the chance to purchase or simply don’t have a real machine, you can now download the game for free. Retroforce has announced the great news at the 56th Barcelona MSX meeting, which…
