Category: Programming
It is a cloudy Sunday morning here in Ottawa, and that alone sets one’s mood pretty low. Luckily, I’ve opened my emails and saw the Spectrum Next Kickstarter Update #36 in my mailbox. Suddenly, the pale skies don’t look that dull anymore! As usual, Henrique’s update is long, full or pictures and information so I will try to summarize here….
The “amiga-place-to-be” English Amiga Board (EAB) has announced a new game development competition, and it is offering more than €500 in prizes! The competition will run from September 1st, 2018 and the deadline is on February 28th, 2019 at 23:59 UTC, so the contestants will have six months to come up with the next great Amiga game. The entries have to be brand…
March/2019: Check also https://www.vitno.org/retroshop-rolling-out-mister-fpga-special-bundle/ RetroShop, a well known retro-hardware provider, has announced on its page on Facebook the immediate availability of MiSTer, a re-implementation of the original classic computer hardware in FPGA. MiSTer is a port of the MiST project to a larger FPGA and faster ARM. MiSTer provides modern video output through HDMI (VGA and analog audio are still available…
Henrique Olifiers has announced on the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page that all the 2B boards will be in production starting next week! The 2B is the final version of the board, which receive some changes and adjustments from users feedback that are using the 2A. In the short update, Henrique also gave updates about the keyboard and the case….
Here at ViTNO, not only are we always excited to learn about the latest developments in the retro computing scene, but we think it’s important to highlight the contributions that so many people out there make to keeping so many of our favourite machines alive. Gregory Nacu, author and maintainer of C64OS.com, is certainly no stranger when it comes to…
Dreams Puzzle is the first entry for the MSX Freestyle category (The contestant can use whatever one want including graphic expansions, sound extensions, add-ons, later machines than MSX1, etc.). The game offers 8 sliding tile puzzles for the player to solve. You can only go to the next puzzle if you solve the previous one. Although the game doesn’t offer a way…
It looks like Nintendo is increasing its actions against the emulator sites, with new lawsuits against LoveROMs and LoveRETRO, two websites that host ROM files. Although this is not the first time that this is happening, seeing Nintendo stepping up its game makes us believe that the ROM sites are making a dent in Nintendo’s revenues. It is understandable that since…
It is always exciting to hear about the beginning of a new edition of CPCRetroDev. The 6th edition of the retro game creation contest of the University of Alicante has been announced and set to start receiving submissions. The Amstrad CPC 464 game developers will have until October 31st to send their entries. Although promoted by the University of Alicante and…
After the good reception that Volume 1 of Brian Matherne’s The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion, he surprised us with the second volume, already available at Amazon. The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion: Volume 2, covers another 34 game titles from 24 homebrew cartridges and ROM downloads that have been developed for the 2600. Printed in black and white on cream colored…
Randy Kindig and Earl Evans started covering the Sinclair ZX-80/81 in the last episode of FloppyDays podcast, mostly talking about its history and tech specifications. To continue the historical coverage of the early Sinclair machines, Randy was able to locate and interview John Grant, owner of Nine Tiles which was responsible for the operating system and the BASIC language shipped with the ZX-80….
