Category: Retro News
Ingo Hinterding, known as “Awsm” on CSDb has released his browser-based sprite editor for the Commodore 64 – Spritemate. Since it runs on any modern browser, Spritemate can be used on Mac, Windows, and Linux (or virtually any device that has a browser that supports Javascript). It also supports the most common file formats for the Commodore 64. This is…
Retroworks has released the excellent ‘The sword of Ianna’ earlier this year for both the ZX Spectrum and MSX2 line of computers and if you have played the game, or watched a video about it you might have thought “How they manage to create a game like that! It is so good!”. Well, like Retroworks listened to your thoughts, they just…
Telnet65 is a program that allows an Atari 8-bit computer (XL/XE) to access another machine connected to the Internet. This is shown by the video published by Viktor “w1k” Čech (Slovakia) where the client emulates a VT100 terminal using telnet protocol. On the video “w1k” is using Telnet65 v1.2 to connect to an IRC server. [vsw id=”zhJ8AypQ7zY” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] The…
Athanor – The awakening is a vector-based graphic adventure game created by Erik Safar for the Oric and Amstrad. Eric “Majikeyric” had ported it for the Commodore 64 and now he just announced that the game can also be played on the C16 and Plus/4, thanks to a port made by Megastyle. Athanor takes place in the south of Italy in…
If you happen to be in Europe or more precisely in Italy by the end of November, you should try to add Florence to your travel plans. There is a retro reason for that! This year the “Firenze Vintage Bit Onlus Club” decided to celebrate the 30 years of the Amiga 500 with a special event that will happen on…
Henrique Olifiers has sent, on behalf of the ZX Spectrum Next team, a new update on the backers Kickstarter page stating that the “board-only” backers will start to have their boards shipped on November 27th. The current plan is to build 20 boards on November 16th and have them thoroughly tested and validated on the next day by Henrique himself….
Following the trend of having a browser-based tool that let you program, test, and share code (aka Codepen), Rafael Jannone from the Facebook group MSX Brasil has developed the MSXPen where you can add BASIC or machine language code for the MSX and test it right on your browser Window. The editor is not fully-featured (yet) but it already supports syntax highlighting…
It is happening on CSDb (Commodore Scene Database), from 9 to 23 of October, a competition to find the best PETSCII graphics. As the name suggests, the participants can only rely on PETSCII characters to draw any kind of illustrations. Although it is low resolution, the results are incredible. As people say, a good artist can work with any tool and…
The Atari 2600 will have three brand new homebrew games being released at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo that will happen next October 20-22. The games are Super Cobra Arcade, Space Cactus Canyon, and Draconian. Follow the description from the press release: Super Cobra Arcade is a sequel to the classic arcade game Scramble in which the player must navigate their…
The site Nostalgiamatica is offering a calendar for the next year that will please the Antic podcast hosts and the rest of the Atari enthusiasts around the world. The 2018 Atari 800XL calendar is ready to show off many Atari games in a 21×28 cm 200mg glossy paper. Each month will feature a screenshot of one of the favorite games,…
