Category: Programming
John Linville posted on RetroChallenge website an early call for potential participants of the upcoming Retro Challenge that will officially start next March. The basic rule of the contest is “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for a month”. It is the ultimate remedy for all of us, procrastinators! John asks for the participants to…
Already a tradition in the Retro Computer Enthusiast’s community, the 2019 edition of the 10-Liner Contest has started and will run through March 30th (6PM CET). Sponsored by Homeputerium, the contest challenge all BASIC programmers to come up with something amazing using only 10 lines of code. Since its establishiment eight years ago, the contest has received 312 10-Liners! The…
WUDSN IDE is a free integrated Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, C64 and NES development plugin for Eclipse and a new version has just been made available for the public. The version 1.7.0 brings the following changes: Daily build – Advanced users have now the option to install the daily build with the greatest and latest in…
Author of the well-received The Secret History of Mac Gaming, Richard Moss is now working on a new book called Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet (working title) where he is writing about shareware games released from the late-1980s through the 90s. To fund the production costs, the author is running a crowdfunding campaign at https://unbound.com/books/shareware-heroes/. Looks to me an…
The group Haujobb has already enriched the Amiga Demoscene with dozens and dozens of amazing demos released throughout its existence. If that wasn’t enough the group has decided to make their tools available for everybody, including examples, and extensive documentation. Back in last August, Hellfire and Noname from Haujobb held a seminar at the 2018 Evoke Demoparty in Cologne where they share…
Francois Lionet has established a Patreon to help fund development of AMOS 2, a successor to the popular AMOS Basic programming language and development studio he helped create for the Commodore Amiga. The original AMOS Basic became popular with coders looking to get started in games development, and various projects were released in the years following it’s release. AMOS 2…
When the Project Update #37 has arrived in my mailbox yesterday, I quickly opened it with my hopes up, looking for a delivery date or something on those lines. Unfortunately, the project had another setback, now with the keyboard. Henrique was waiting for new updates from the partner handling the keyboard project on Sep 22nd, but so far, the partner hasn’t…
Sort of by accident I’ve create a BASIC game for the ZX Spectrum, very simple concept and not very long. But this article is not about the game, but about the experience. To review the excellent board Dandanator from Retroshop (article will come up soon), I’ve set up a ZX Spectrum with the board, but also a cassette tape on…
Following a hiatus of over 20 years, Guillermo “Willysoft” Fuenzalida has resumed his work on Culmins, a puzzle game for classic Atari 8-bit computers. Originally a collaboration with Rodrigo Cabrera (music) and Nestor Mercado (graphics), Fuenzalida has picked up the reigns, hoping to finally complete the project. Talking with Atariteca, he recalls that he first began work on the game…
Although the game is still for sale as physical cartridge over MSX Cartridge Shop, Imanok has made the game available as a free download. The side-scroller platform featuring Tina as the hero was released last year and received a great reception. “Tina wakes up thinking it’s going to be another peaceful day in the island, but suddenly she starts feeling worried….
