Category: Retro News
If you hang out on the ZX Next Facebook group, it is relatively common to see people asking how to buy it if you are not a backer of the first campaign, which points to an increasing interest in the machine we learn to love to wait (!) It looks like there is still hope for those that missed the…
How much silliness you can fit in 4Kb? Ausretrogamer, the Australian retro gamer e-zine, has announced the 2020 Reset64 4Kb game coding competition. As the previous editions from 2016 and 2018, the theme is “craptastic”, and we have to quote Ausretrogamer post as it explains it properly: “Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and silly”. My…
World of Commodore is an annual gathering for …err… Commodore computers enthusiasts. The 16th edition happened last December 7th, 2019, in Toronto, Canada. I was suppose to go but at the last minute I had to cancel and was pretty annoyed to miss it. Thankfully, the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG), show organizer, just published the presentation videos on YouTube….
The amazing work by the Atariage user rensoup (and many others) continues and he has released the second playable level of the classic Prince of Persia. The update includes: one playable level (L2) PMG overlays with repositioning for the player (not for the enemy yet) preliminary music by Vinscool a lot more animation frames redone by TIX fix: random button…
In its update #56, the ZX Spectrum Next team comes with great news, saying that the Next is about to ship and the first 500 units were produced already and are currently being tested. Since the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter campaign was funded in 1987, or it was 2017? I can’t remember anymore ;), it is possible that many of…
Some interesting News popped up on Twitter recently regarding a website that is at least New to me. “Tiny Emus” has a lot to offer the on-the-go Retro Gamer. Perfect for someone who doesn’t have the time nor the patience to mess around fiddling with emulator settings. Visiting the website, you will be presented with a full page of games…
ZX Parachute is a new game for the ZX Spectrum developed by Carles Oriol that follows to the letter the Nintendo Game & Watch game device released in 1981 where you control a boat that has to prevent parachutists to fall into the water infested by sharks. The boat can be moved left or right but can only be in…
One of the games available in the New Year Disc 2020 released by Ralf “PPs” Patschke is Runner Bear, an infinite runner game for the Atari XL/XE with at least 48K of RAM. Developed by Paul “Playsoft” Lay, Darryl Guenther y Rob Schlort, Runner Bear presents colourful Mario-like graphics with a very well designed parallax scrolling effect, giving depth to…
Although it is not unseen to have games developed in a short period of time, it is easy to make a really good game in less than one week. One game that falls in that category is Yazzie, developed by Denis Grachev for the competition Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019, which happened at the beginning of last month. Yazzie is…
The already traditional New Year Disc compilation just released its 14th edition, containing a plethora of good for the Atari 8-bit enthusiast. In the 6-disk compilation made by Ralf “PPs” Patschke you will find two games and several graphics and intros. The compilation contains works by Filippo “Philsan” Santellocco, Michal “Miker” Szpilowski, Mario “eMKay” Krix, Pawel “Sikor” Sikorski, Steve ”…
