Category: Retro News
It has been popping up news around a tweet posted by PDX Commodore Club claiming that they were contacted by Nintendo’s legal team (or their representative) demanding them to take down the download link for Super Mario for the Commodore 64. But wait! Remember we are talking about the Internet! Although I believe PDX Commodore Club is not making this…
A huge collection of Infocom’s Text Adventure games is now available in their source code form on Github. Thanks to Jason Scott efforts, 45 games are now at anyone’s reach to be dissected, including popular titles like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Zork, and Planetfall. The games were all written using ZIL (Zork Implementation Language) which will make hard…
With the end of NOMAN 2019 this April 14th, the Basic 10Liners contest is also over and the winners announced. If the BASIC 10Liner contest is new for you, check our previous article about it: 2019 BASIC 10-Liner Contest in On! This year there were nothing less than 83 contestants which made the task to give scores to all of…
UPDATE: April 9th – The price is now £1, which is still a good price for what it is. Just received my TPUG newsletter and was glad to see another great news. After the “The story of Commodore 64 in Pixels” giveaway we posted last month, Fusion Retro Books is back, now selling for £1 (USD 1.30) the Amiga counterpart:…
Arcade Game Designer or AGD is a well-known ZX Spectrum game engine developed by Jonathan Cauldwell that makes much easier the task to develop a game for the 8-bit computer. The proof of its vert smooth learning curve is the hundreds of games already developed using AGD. We here, on ViTNO, have posted news about many of them just to…
This month, the C64 demoscene had 17 new demos released, including one-file demos e full demos. After watching all of them, I came up with my eight favourite ones, following my taste as a guide. The best one is OMG got Balls! by OMG, followed by Monomania by Offence, with excellent effects, colourful graphics and superb chiptunes. Both were released…
Could this be the longest named arcade game ever created? All part of the B-Movie sci fi fun in this weeks AMIGArama!
Bitmap Soft, a newly established software house focusing on games for vintage computer systems, are excited to announce that their debut physical release will be Chronicles of Nanako – featuring remastered versions of Mojon Twins classic games, Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle and Nanako Descends to Hell. Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle has Nanako set off on a…
Following a month of tantalising tweets, teases and promos, the crowdfunding campaign for Amiga Power – The Album with Attitude is now live on Kickstarter. Regular readers will know that we have something of a soft spot for Commodore and its groundbreaking multimedia machine, so we were rather excited when we had to chance to talk to Matthew Smith about…
The Czech composer Adam J. Sporka has published For Ember, a new album with 18 chiptune songs composed using an Atari 800XL computer. Most of the tracks were composed by Sporka between 2009 and 2019, but the album also includes a chiptune version of Jan Valta’s People of the Land and chiptune version of The Wasteland Wailers’ Dare Master. The…
