Category: Programming
At a glance, Pac-Mad looks like a Pac-Man clone but after looking a little bit further you will realize that it is more than that. First released as a WIP (work in progress) at the demo party Irony 2017 by Wojciech Bociański, the game gathered a lot of attention, even being in the early stages of development. Wojciech then took…
Limbo is a side-scroller game released by Playdead Studio in 2010. The game took the game industry by surprise showing fabulous black & white graphics, clever puzzles, and terrific animation. It was awarded many times by several different game developer associations and now is available for almost all modern game platforms you can think of. But the big news for…
A lot of people out there that celebrates Christmas like to have their own traditions that are repeated religiously every year. Blake Patterson from Byte Cellar has also jumped on the tradition rituals bandwagon and once more published a post showing off retro Christmas demos. The 2017 demo collection consists of 16 demos across 13 platforms, including the CoCo, ZX…
Terrible news for the ZX Spectrum community. The creator of the ZX-Modules has announced that he will leave the retro scene and with him the ZX-Modules webpage and Facebook page. ZX-Modules is a comprehensive set of tools and utilities for ZX Spectrum cross-development. The set includes ZX-Paintbrush, ZX-Blockeditor, ZX-Preview, and ZX-Assembler among other indispensable tools that made a lot of people’s…
MSXPad is an IDE that let you program for the MSX using the Pascal language, which can be a nice way to get started on the MSX world for those who are not versed in assembler or C. The biggest problem to start using the tool is that the current official version doesn’t work on Windows 8 or 10. Thankfully,…
Amitopia has published a nice article revealing that the Amiga sound chip was already capable of play high-quality 14bit sound back in 1985. At the time, the limit was the 68000 that couldn’t get the machine to play raw 14bit wave files. Not sure if that is common knowledge but it is a surprise to me, just proving how advanced…
I hope the title of this post won’t be seen as a bait&click one, as in this new game for the ZX Spectrum you play as a chess piece, but you don’t play the chess game! Knight Hero is an arcade/action platform game where you play as the knight, the only chess piece that didn’t get enprisoned by their enemies….
Slime, a game created by Mr. NOP and released last year for the Commodore 64 (reported here), got a new version just in time for the World of Commodore, which happened last weekend in Toronto, Canada. There are the additional features added to the game: A loading picture Bug fixed the level display Bonus life at 10,000 points Starts in single…
Today, I came across this blog post on Ken Shirriff’s blog where he describes how to print a Christmas card on an IBM 1401 mainframe, a pretty popular low-end computer sold throughout the 60’s. Driven by the Reddit’s Retrobattlestation challenge for this month, the blog post is super interesting not only for the Xmas card itself but because it gives us a…
The backers that opted in to get the ZX Spectrum Next board were happy to see their packages waiting for them at their doorstep but as soon some of them hooked it up, they were surprised by some unforeseen problems. The main issues are related to the keyboard, HDMI, and problems with the screen. Early this morning, Henrique Olifiers wrote a…
