Category: Retro News
Veteran developers Swivel Creations have partnered with London based Lu Studios to bring the classic 80’s game BOUNDER to mobile which is set for release in the first quarter 2018. The owner of Swivel Matt Risley has a big background in games stretching back to 1991 and this year contacted Ian Stewart, ex-Gremlin Graphics owner (UrbanScan) and negotiated a deal…
MojonTwins are well-known for their many great games for the ZX Spectrum and other “retro” platforms. It is excellent news for all homebrew developers out there that they decided to release the source code of their game engine MK2, a framework consisting of a modular engine programmed in C and a set of tools to make games for ZX Spectrum….
Hi retro gaming people, we are “The Retro Shed!” and we’re also very excited to be contributors to Vintage Is The New Old, so thanks to the team for inviting us to take part! We are a family based in Worcestershire who adore all things gaming and computing, the older the better, and we have a shed dedicated to the…
If you think that paying US$ 15,000 for a brand new, fully loaded iMac is crazy, imagining paying 4 times that for an Apple LISA? Call A.P.P.L.E website just reported that an Apple LISA 1 was sold on eBay for a whopping USD 56,100. The unit is fully functional and came with lots of manuals and software, says the buyer…
CBM prg Studio, by Arthur Jordison, is a complete IDE for Commodore development in both BASIC and Assembler. He just announced a new version containing very interesting new features! Assembler: SaveBlock directive. Repeat…EndRepeat directive. Improved IfDef directive. Start address can be a label. Screen Editor: New export options for assembly and BASIC programs. General: “Go to” dialog can now use BASIC…
Mini vMac for iOS is a classic Macintosh (Mac Plus, Mac II or Mac 128K) emulator that runs on any iOS device (version 9 and up). The project is being around since 2016, but now anyone can enjoy it. Since Apple never allow emulators to be available on the official App Store, Jesús A. Álvarez has released the complete project with…
The long-running TRS8Bit newsletter has a special treat for its readers: a special edition containing a compilation of all BASIC one-liners published throughout the years. The free “package” contains a PDF with the articles that brought the one-liners and a DSK image with all of them ready to run! (although I personally think you should try to type at least…
Back in the early 90s, when I was still living in Brazil and starting my career in IT, I remember to work on a minicomputer called DigiRede that would take several serial terminals and used MUMPS operating system/language. As the time passed, I changed jobs and only worked on PCs. Not long ago I started to remember them and wondered what…
Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. Episode 11 ‘Tasty Podcast’ is now available to listen and download. Download: Amiga-Ireland-podcast-S01E11-Tasty-Podcast.mp3 Website: amigausers.ie
There is a new update on the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page showing everything that was accomplished so far, including all the help the community gave to the ZX Spectrum Next team to ensure the early problems with the boards were fixed. Now the question that we keep asking! How about the full computers? The final design of the case…
