Category: Retro News
Thursday we shared News about Nixy The Glade Sprite, which is Andy Johns brand new ZX Spectrum platformer. Today we have some exciting exclusive News to share! Nixy The Glade Sprite is now officially released and you can download it right now, here at Vintage is the New Old! Andy has also announced his new website for current and future…
When I first saw, more than two years ago, news about SymbOS, it looked like magic. The multitask operating system for Z80 machines was at that time, 10 years old and the version 3.0 was just released. SymbOS project is still going strong and the version 3.0 is available for the complete Amstrad CPC 464/664/6128 range (old and new generation), for…
Trevor Storey has provided a number of updates to the various projects that he is collaborating on with the Georg Rottensteiner, Achim Volkers and Stuart Collier. Organism is fast approaching a release date with the last round of bug fixing taking place before the title is ready to be unleashed on the eager C64 gaming community. Storey has indicated that…
Antonio Savona, the programmer behind the POSnake and the critically acclaimed hit from 2017 PlanetGolf, has just announced that is resuming development on a platform shooter game for the Commodore 64 titled Guy in a Vest. Savona teased the C64 community with glimpses of some impressive looking early graphics for the game produced by Saul Cross back in November 2017…
Back in February, we shared some News about a new platformer coming to the ZX Spectrum Next called Monkey McGee: Where are my Bananas? Fast forward to May and we can see that John, Simon (Miami Vice, Platoon, Target Renegade) and Paul have been hard at work getting the game together, showing off a brand new promo video! The first…
You may remember we mentioned Bubblesoft’s new upcoming ZX Spectrum game back in early March. Nixy the Glade sprite is a brand new AGD platformer, which we have been vigorously putting through it’s paces since the very first alpha version, weeding out the bugs, sharing ideas, and suggesting to Andy what could be improved to make the game the very…
The MSX enthusiasts will now be able to enjoy, using their favourite machine, ‘Fort Apocalypse’, a game initially released in 1982 for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64. It was announced by SoCal Studio that they are working on a port of the game for the MSX! No, this is not the 4th entry for the contest! To be more…
Virus LQP-79 brings a horde of zombies for the MSXDev’18 competition. The third entry is an enjoyable shoot’em up game where you play Amy, an average girl who found herself in a daring situation after an accident at a local research facility releases a deadly (almost?) virus that turns people in zombies. Her task is to find her way out of the…
Retro gamers will be pleased to learn that Jaime Grilo, stalwart member of the Spectrum homebrew development scene, returns with yet another exciting AGD title. In a change of pace from the arcade platform antics seen in the likes of Tea-Leaf Ted and previous releases, Quahappy is an arcade adventure game that puts players in control of Dauntless Andy, a soul both brave…
Yet more Atari news, this time focusing on Minotaur 16k, another up and coming release for 8-bit 600XL computer. Although there isn’t a huge amount of information on this title at present, Stargunner, the game’s developer, shared some information about the game on the AtariAge forum, stating that not only is it a work-in-progress, but what has been revealed thus…
