Category: Programming
After a long time without new issues, Pro(c) Atari magazine is back. To make up for the time lost, the magazine now has a new format and more pages. The issue #13 brings 104 pages full of Atari goodness, including: Perplexity Sikor’s Atari-Party Achilles DungeonLord Spelunker Rain Of Terror Spare Change Boulderdash – Turn your sceens into a game Diamondz 2…
For all of us that have overlapping interest in game design and retro gaming, the GDC 2018 will hold an interesting presentation: Classic Game Postmortem: ‘The Bard’s Tale I and II’. Michael Cranford, the designer of the iconic RPG series first launched in 1985 will be the speaker. This session will explore the conception and development of Interplay’s ‘The Bard’s Tale…
Xentax Foundation had let us know that a new production batch of the FM-YAM, a sound expander compatible cartridge, will be available soon and you can reserve yours now. FM-YAM will add 9 FM sound channels to the C64, enabling mixing with the 3 SID channels. Here are the main features: Supports YM3812 or YM3526 (via sockets) YM3812 included single unit…
Dracula’s Castle is a new platform game for the Commodore 64. Released by MP Software, the game is based/ported on an old BASIC game, released in 1985. Although the graphics are mostly the same, the MP Software’s version is coded in assembler. The premise is simple: the hero has to collect the crucifixes and the key in order to open…
The December 2017 edition of TRS8BIT is now available from the downloads page, with well over 60 pages of news, reviews and general chit-chat for you to enjoy. There is news about the ‘Super Card Pro’ from cbmstuff.com, Ian Mavric has 4 articles, ranging from Tandy’s work with agriculture, down under, a review of his visit to the TA in Ohio, further…
As the ZX Spectrum Next boards leave the assembly line and head to the hands of the backers that opted for the board-only, Carlos Henrique Olifiers thought it would be very important to have a guide ready before the users receive their units. The ZX Spectrum Next board 2A is the first public version of the platform. It’s a bare…
MSXDev’17 has come to an end and the organization posted the results by category: MSX Classic WINNER: XSpelunker! XSpelunker: 8.3/10 Draconic Throne: 8.2/10 Tales of Popolon: 7.6/10 Mazogs: 5.86/10 Slime Center: 5.7/10 Magical Tower Adventure: 4.4/10 Andrea Petkovic Torneo de Tenis: 3.8/10 SKULLrs: 2.6/10 [vsw id=”-7O2Bz_6Oc8″ source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] MSX Freestyle WINNER: ΧΙ∧∃Χ! ΧΙ∧∃Χ (Zevimodoki): 7.04/10 Sweet Punch: 5/10 Other…
Glen Hewlett has published throughout the month of November five articles explaining how to setup and use interrupts on the TRS-80 Color Computer. He starts his blog talking about his motivation and objectives: Recently I was working on my MIDI to CoCo converter program and I wanted to output the data with an option that would include the player that…
VCF East XII happened earlier this year and if you weren’t able to attend in person, you can now watch the presentations on YouTube. Presentations like the Vintage Computing with Raspberry Pi with Dave Test, Commodore PET Repair with Todd George, Apple II Repair with Corey Cohen and many others are now part of the VCF YouTube channel. We are thrilled to see that…
In Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio would get into people’s dreams to steal their secrets and, at some point during the movie, they would go into the dream’s dream in order to unlock more secrets. Although not as fantastic as the movie, the Internet Archive has made available (via Computer Applications, Inc) an Apple II emulator that is running in a browser-based Mac emulator….
