Category: Programming
Mega Cat Studios has released three new games for the NES: Creepy Brawlers, Creeping it Reel, and Justice Duel. In Creepy Brawlers is, in Mega Cat own words, a horror-boxing game where you have to fight several “movie monsters” who have different abilities. If you manage to perfectly timed counter-attacks will be able to stun the monsters and get closer to the…
CPCRetroDev 2017 submissions deadline was October 31st and a total of 29 entries made on time for the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. The jury is now working hard to analyze and judge all the awesome games and getting ready for the award ceremony that will be held on next Friday, November 10th, around ~19:00h (CEST time). The…
RETRO magazine (not the British Retro Gamer one!) issue #13 is out, conveniently on October 31st! While normally one issue costs US$2.99, this issue is free if you use the code R137BX2NYFTT during checkout, which is a nice gift and good way to let the word out about the magazine. If you are interested in a Physical format for this issue,…
Freeze64 has established itself as a mandatory reading for all Commodore 64 enthusiasts out there with rich content that will satisfy the retro gamer, the collector, and even the retro programmer. Issue 14 is now available with the following content: Cosmic Cruiser Cover Feature Interview With Gary Penn Making Of Cosmic Cruiser With Paul Clansey Desert Island Disks With Chris…
Ingo Hinterding, known as “Awsm” on CSDb has released his browser-based sprite editor for the Commodore 64 – Spritemate. Since it runs on any modern browser, Spritemate can be used on Mac, Windows, and Linux (or virtually any device that has a browser that supports Javascript). It also supports the most common file formats for the Commodore 64. This is…
Retroworks has released the excellent ‘The sword of Ianna’ earlier this year for both the ZX Spectrum and MSX2 line of computers and if you have played the game, or watched a video about it you might have thought “How they manage to create a game like that! It is so good!”. Well, like Retroworks listened to your thoughts, they just…
Telnet65 is a program that allows an Atari 8-bit computer (XL/XE) to access another machine connected to the Internet. This is shown by the video published by Viktor “w1k” Čech (Slovakia) where the client emulates a VT100 terminal using telnet protocol. On the video “w1k” is using Telnet65 v1.2 to connect to an IRC server. [vsw id=”zhJ8AypQ7zY” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] The…
Henrique Olifiers has sent, on behalf of the ZX Spectrum Next team, a new update on the backers Kickstarter page stating that the “board-only” backers will start to have their boards shipped on November 27th. The current plan is to build 20 boards on November 16th and have them thoroughly tested and validated on the next day by Henrique himself….
Following the trend of having a browser-based tool that let you program, test, and share code (aka Codepen), Rafael Jannone from the Facebook group MSX Brasil has developed the MSXPen where you can add BASIC or machine language code for the MSX and test it right on your browser Window. The editor is not fully-featured (yet) but it already supports syntax highlighting…
“Let Us Make Your Dreams Come True Together” or LUMYDCTT for short (!!!!) is the weird name of a new IDE for cross-development targeting the Commodore Plus/4, created by Károly “Charlemagne”. LUMYDCTT runs on Windows and enables you to create either BASIC or Assembly programs for the Plus/4. These are the main features: – Using PETSCII (=CBM ASCII) characters –…
