Category: Programming
The traditional Retro Challenge is happening again throughout the month of April. The contest asks you to “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for a month”. It is a great way to take that old project from the drawer and finish it. It could be a hardware project, a computer restoration, a new application or game,…
Way back in 2015 we shared News about a new game called Aviator Arcade II, announcing an early preview release. Aviator Arcade II is a shoot’em up packed with action and amazing graphics. After almost three years, the game is now complete, and Mark Hindsbo is working to finish the changes for release on cartridge and floppy disk, as announced by…
Among the many CSDb releases that show up every day, sometimes we see something that stands out for many reason. It can be technical excellence, skilled coding, or beautiful art. Sometimes there are some that excel on all of above! That’s the case of Game Art Beyond by Bliss. The program itself is a slide show that presents incredible graphics…
In a post published on January 17th, Kevin Watkins announced his decision to create a new programming language targeting the ZX Spectrum Next: The idea to do so originally came from the Facebook group for the ZX Spectrum Next, a new FPGA computer based that is an enhanced version of the ZX Spectrum, the computer I first started to program on…
I love magazines that talk about retro computing and/or retro gaming, from Retro Gamer to Juiced.GS, from Reset 64 to CommodoreFree to mention only a few. Now, there is a new kid on the block – Paleotronic Magazine! The first issue takes a look at the history of the Consumer Electronics Show including interviews with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and…
The Wing Commander series is my favourite action game on PC as I remember spending many hours playing them, sometimes attempt to complete a mission and failing countless times. While browsing my news feed this morning I saw that The Digital Antiquarian has published another extensive article about Wing Commander II which got me very excited! If you haven’t read…
We are living the golden era of retro computing, with all the activities happening around the World, including shows, new hardware and software, etc. There are, however, some examples of retro “something” that is in full activity nowadays but started when retro computers were brand new and survived all these years. Call A.P.P.L.E is one of the best examples of this…
Announced by the Reset Magazine folks and Ausretrogamer website, the new 2018 Reset64 game code competition is on and the theme is “craptastic”. To make sure you are not thinking that it means, only crappy games allowed, Ausretrogamer has the perfect explanation: It certainly doesn’t mean crap, although it can! Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and…
One day I was browsing the Atariage forum and saw some incredible screenshots of a game being developed for the Atari 2600. After reading through the thread, I learned that the game is Mappy, an arcade game released by Namco in 1983. To be completely honest, although I might have seen the characters around, I didn’t know the game, but…
Rick Dangerous II is a platform game released in 1990 for many computers including the ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and others. It was announced late last year on the Gamopat forum that the game was being ported to the Sega Genesis/Megadrive and now we are happy to tell you that it is already available for download. The user…
