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[youtube odzHl0llccI nolink] ‘It’s a Pixel Thing’ Youtube channel has published a video showing the author’s 26 favourite games for the Amiga. He goes over several Amiga classics like Stunt Car Racer, Pang, Fuzzball, Fury of the Furies, Lemmings and much more. It is a pretty good selection that brings good memories. I recommend watching the video, and even better,…
The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, has named the first six games to its new World Video Game Hall of Fame. Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Doom, and World of Warcraft were chosen based on “popularity over a sustained period”, and other criteria. According to the Arstechnica article, the games were chosen by curators, educators and…
The strangely titled ‘Lindwendture Project’ is a new Commodore 64 adventure work in progress by master coder Enthusi and graphics genius Oliver Lindau. I have been watching this game for some time now on the German Forum 64, and also on Oliver Lindau’s Facebook page where it was announced way back in February. To be honest I didn’t take much…
I’ve just found this link posted on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group, where Christopher Phin writes about his passion to buy vintage computers (mostly Apple in his case). It is a very entertaining and light reading, and at least for me, it reflects very precisely what I feel about vintage computers. The author said his in his 30’s which explains…
As mentioned earlier here, 64bites.com is a website run by Michal Taszycki that will run weekly screencasts, teaching you budding programmers out there how to write intros, demos and games in 6502 machine language on your favourite breadbin, the Commodore 64. The website at the moment has some teaser lessons using BASIC, but it is now officially announced that the full…
The guys over at C64.com have added an interview with Mevlüt Dinç / MD Software, Vivid Image. Mevlüt started dabbling with the Spectrum computer purely for fun. Learning to program, he created a few basic demos from just books and magazines. Within two years he had learnt how to program in machine code. In time he moved onto programming games…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Establishing Eye Contact with a Squirrel, Giganoid, JSIDDevice 3.6, JSIDPlay2 3.6, Disco, Paralax Demo, Flags, Ultima IV Remastered V2.2.1, Birds, Hidden Intro, Bikes in Action, Fixy, Crimson Blessing, Dungeon Crawl +2JF [pal/ntsc], A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, magination, Trojan Warrior +25D [crazy hack], Dungeon Crawl +2D, Super Mario…
You can now vote for your favourite game in the SEUCK competition 2015. The entries for this year are: GigaBlast, S.F.S (Special Forces Soldier), Snatch McBlagger, Shoot or Die, Abyssonaut, Naait Raaider, T-UFO, Shamai – Return of Myths, META14, Payback Time, The Ocean Ninja and Scoff. Website: http://tnd64.unikat.sk/Seuck_Compo_2015.htmlVoting: http://www.jotformeu.com/form/51251887976369
AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Pascal Papara about AEROS and AROS – Another look at the future of the Amiga. Music: Murdilokustra and Nobody’s Home. Website: http://amicast.ppa.pl
JETSETWILLY+10D crazy trainer hack is the standard game of Jet Set Willy by Software Projects but with additional 10 in-game features that have been added by Hackersoft. The GameMiner Willy, fresh from striking it rich in Manic Miner, has held a massive party in his new mansion. His housekeeper, Maria, has taken a dim view of the revelry and finally…
