Category: Retro News
The 4 Masters of Melody, the first game created by the Clube MSX magazine, is getting a well-deserved cartridge release. The launch will happen on December 7 and 8, at the MSX SP 2019, an event for MSX enthusiasts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The boxed version of the game brings small graphic enhancements, a printed manual (Portuguese and English) all…
I’ve been dedicating some of my time learning about Atari 8-bit programming mostly through old Atari books you can find all over the Internet and they are a very good source of information for sure! However, it is nice to see that there are some modern efforts to keep the subject fresh and up to date. One of the most…
R-Type was published in 1988 by Electric Dreams Software for the ZX Spectrum 48k, and they made an excellent job with it. However, due to the hardware and memory limitations, the game was released without music, which was a big part of its frantic gameplay. This weekend, a new mod for the classic game was released trying to close the…
Prince of Persia is probably one of my favourite games, and one of the most frustrating as well, mainly when you fall on those spikes after not getting the perfect timing for the jump. Although it was initially developed for the Apple ][, which shares the same CPU, the 6502, the game was never released for the Atari 8-bits. With…
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines is a Russian private institution that has the objective of keeping a collection of arcade game machines in working condition in a permanent exhibit in Moscow where the visitors can not only see them but also interact and play with the more than 200 machines. As part of the ticket, the visitor receives a…
This is the second part of the interview with Randy Linden, featured on the Retro Hour podcast episode 190. Read the first part here. Bleem! Retro Hour: Well, when did you get this kind of stroke of genius to run PlayStation games on the PC. How did that start? Randy Linden: I was just thinking one day about what to…
Retrocomputing and the maker movement has a close connection. The curiosity, innovation and tinkering spirit are present in the Raspberry PI (and others) community as much as it was present during the dawn of the personal computing era. To confirm that even more, the recently released issue 88 of The MagPI features many articles about retrocomputing and retrogaming. The magazine…
It was announced on November 25th, that Rebellion, creators of the Sniper Elite Series (which I played them all!), acquired The Bitmap Brothers brand and portfolio, and plans to bring the classics to the new platforms as well as release brand-new games based on the beloved licenses. Described as “Gaming’s first rockstars,” The Bitmap Brothers were responsible for what many…
Thomas Cherryhomes, the mind behind Irata.online, has announced that he and other contributors are working hard to bring to the Atari 8-bit computers a modern way to connect them online wirelessly. The following text is an excerpt from the post on Atariage, write by Thomas himself. The device, called #FujiNet (formerly known at #AtariWiFi) is a network adapter that attaches…
If you, like me, keep planning to learn assembler for the past 35-40 years, here is another chance. Amiga Game Dev is a website that aims to teach game development for the Amiga, using Assembler. You can probably think of the site as a supplement for the author’s YouTube videos published in the channel Graeme Cowie. So far, there are…
