Category: Programming
The 2020 Reset64 4kb ‘Craptastic’ Game Compo came to an end and published the contestants’ entries as a single package on itch.io. The competition hosted by Reset64 Magazine received 37 entries and based on the screenshots alone, the quality is very high. If you are not aware of the competition, don’t be fooled by the name! As the organizers explain:…
BlitzWays is a new free game for the Commodore Amiga, created by Sebastian Hartmann aka Wertstahl of Genesis Project. It consists in a matching game where the pieces you have to match need to be connected with a line that can only have two angles (or two turns if you will). This way you have to plan what pieces will…
With an emotional post on Kickstarter, Henrique Olifiers has announced that the first campaign has finally come to an end, with all ZX Spectrum Next units delivered to the backers. Everything started four years ago, when Four Henrique Olifiers, Victor Trucco, Fabio Belavenuto and Rick Dickinson embarked on this journey to bring the ZX Spectrum back to like, creating the…
A month ago I saw an announcement on Facebook that ViTNO articles were available on Temporal Vortex BBS ][. I was immediately curious to see how would that work and how well (or bad) would be the experience. Bulletin Board Systems I believe that most of our readers have come from the time when the Internet didn’t exist and BBS…
Clube MSX, the Portuguese-speaking magazine about the MSX line of computers, has announced the pre-sale of its 9th issue. The magazine can be pre-ordered from today, June 10th through June 17th for the special price of R$ 21,90 (~ USD 4.50). After that, the price will be R$ 24,90 (~USD 5.10). This issue brings an interview with Renato Degiovani, author…
Starting from the //e enhanced, the Apple II featured a double LORES mode with 80 x 48 pixels in 16 colours. Although still blocky, the smaller pixels and full access to 16 colours brought new graphics capabilities for the Apple II. The only problem was that BASIC programmers didn’t have available easy-to-use commands to access this mode and with sparse documentation and complex implementation…
Yandex Retro Games Battle 2020 is an annual game development competition for retro computing fans targeting the ZX Spectrum that started last year. The success was so astounding that the organizers have decided to make the 2020 edition. Open to individual or teams from anywhere in the World, the contest rules (link at the end) are very simple. The contestant…
Planeta Sinclair is the most important source of news and technical articles exclusively dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Portuguese-speaking community. Behind its success is André Leão, a very passionate Speccy enthusiast living in Portugal. For the past week, we’ve been chatting about our websites and other projects and decided to make a cross-interview where I talked about…
Defined by the developer, VergeWorld: Icarus Rising is a sci-fi shoot’em up, racer game with exploration elements. However the game is still in development, Retro Bones has released a playable demo. In this demo version, you have to pilot Icarus trying to beat the Death Run challenge, which is a race against the time through one of the planet’s canyons….
Games That Weren’t has just announced that the collector Ken “Dutchman2000” Van Mersbergen has found and preserved the long lost AtariSoft conversion of Joust, a successful arcade game released in 1982 where you control a knight riding a flying ostrich. The game was ported to many platforms, like the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Lynx,…
