Category: Retro News
We often feature Saberman’s gameplay videos in our News posts. He’s very quick at finding new upcoming games and sharing the News with the community. Whilst doing my daily browse of his video collection, I came across a video of OpenFire, which is a work in progress game for the Amiga. OpenFire is by KaiN (Code), Selur and Softiron (GFX),…
Amstrad CPC fans will soon have cause to celebrate since we learned that Juan J. Martinez (Reidrac) is hard at work on his latest project, The Dawn of Kernel, along with artistic contributions from Dylan Barry (loading and title screens). Set in the reaches of outer space on planet K3E-NL, disaster strikes when the outbreak of a computer virus manages…
Retro Games Limited has announced that they will be releasing firmware version 1.0.6 for TheC64 Mini on the 5th April 2018. Version 1.0.6 is set to feature the following changes: – Maps additional functions to joystick buttons for some games – Makes minor changes to descriptions for some games – Fixes an occasional scenario where an additional USB joystick is…
The results are in for Revision 2018 Amiga & Oldskool Demos. In first place for Amiga; The Fall by The Deadliners, Second place is Hexel by Ephidrena, and third place is Pt 2 Horizons by Unique. For Oldskool, first place goes to Fairlight & Censor Design with We come in Peace, (C64) second place PhX by Condense (Amstrad) and third…
Beta 4a of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been just been released today. For more information about the game, check through our older posts and the EAB thread link below. Here’s another update – Beta 4A. In this build I’ve made a huge change and added memory management to the game. The game still…
Cogitare Computing is pleased to announce the release of Counterweight Kate for the Commodore 64. Counterweight Kate sees you take on the role of Kate who wakes up one night to find that her toys have come alive and found themselves in a bit of trouble. So its up to you to put on your bike helmet and set off…
A1200.net, the team behind the Amiga 1200 casing Kickstarter are back again with another crowd funder for a new compatible case for the Amiga 500 & Amiga 500 Plus. Currently the IndieGoGo campaign is on $32,055 USD of a $155,000 fixed goal. This sounds like a lot to achieve, but the guys did it before and there is no reason to…
Romhacking.net have updated their awesome website with some brand new Rom Hacks and Translations! Rom Hacks Zelda II – The Triforce Of Courage (Zelda II: The Adventure of Link)(NES) Uncle Mario Bros. (Super Mario Bros.)(NES) Super Mario Kart Devanny Dark Edition (Super Mario Kart)(SNES) Super Mario Bros 3.87 Heartless (The Burst Shoes Edition) (Super Mario Bros. 3)(NES) Metroid: Spooky Mission…
Henrique Olifiers has provided backers of the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter with an update on the project, unfortunately disclosing some frustrating news. The company that was going to produce the plastic keyboard casing for the Next has inexplicably dropped the project leaving the Next project team to source an alternate supplier. Despite the setback, Olifiers confirmed that the team are…
MSXdev’18 deadline is February 14th, 2019, but the competition has already received its first entry: Burn Us. Burn Us by Carambalan Studios is a strategy/platform game targeting the MSX with 32kb of RAM. The game proposition is quite “weird”. You are a masochist part of a cult called “The Sect Givemehard” and your goal in the game is to burn yourself…
