Category: Programming
MSX Cartridge Shop has announced three games that you will be able to have in physical cartridges and awesome packaging. Manbow 2 and Caos Begins are re-editions and the third one is Alien 8 for the MSX2, which will have a physical edition for the first time. Based on the photos provided, they are well worth The shop also informs that if…
As we draw closer to the New Year, I thought it would be nice to post some of the best Genesis Project crack releases we have been blessed with over this December month.First up is The Bear Essentials +2DP&Map, which is a cracked version of the awesome new platformer by Pond Software. The Genesis Project release includes the following extras; Unlimited Lives, invincibility,…
We are in a golden age of retro printed magazines, with excellent examples dedicated to different retro computers and one great multi-platform. Just before Christmas, I had in my mailbox Freeze 64 and 8-Bit Magazine. We mentioned these publications before, but I decided to talk a bit more about both to, hopefully, help those who are on the fence about buying them. Freeze…
WebMSX is a fully-featured browser-based MSX emulator. With the new version 4.0, it brings support for mobile browsers. With this release, you can play your favorite MSX game on the go using your iPhone or Android phone. It not only runs the emulator but also allows the user to play games in full screen using virtual buttons that work on your…
Fairlight is an isometric projection arcade adventure video game developed by Bo Jangeborg and Jack Wilkes at EDGE Games and released in 1985 (Wikipedia), for the ZX Spectrum and later on ported to the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. The game was a best seller at the time as well as pleased by the magazines of the time. On Christmas day, Atariage…
Hackaday has a piece from their 2016 Hackaday SuperConference where IC expert Ken Shirriff talks about his “bizarre hobby of reverse-engineering old chips”. He starts off with the venerable Z80 CPU, mapping the signal flows from the address lines, through the decoder and into the ALU. Did you know that the Z80 only had a 4-bit ALU?!? Man, those were…
After three years of development, with several interruptions and side projects, the game Pop*Star Pilot for the CoCo3 has been released! Developed by Nick Marentes, the game consists of a colourful side-scroller in which the player controls an airplane that flies through different levels whilst popping up balloons. As well as taking care of the balloons, it is important you avoid buildings and keep…
Glen Hewlett has managed to convert Space Invaders from the original Intel 8080 Arcade source code to the Motorola 6809 that runs on the CoCo 3. He starts the article explaining that since he never understood Interrupts back in the 80’s, he decided to try to write something for the CoCo to practice some of the information he learned from John Linville…
Did you miss the magazine’s type-in era? Very few would actually miss it, but it brings good feelings remembering the days and nights typing programs from magazine’s listings, mainly when the program didn’t work, or a power outage would end it for you! Well, now is time to get revenge – people will type in your program and you might get prizes for…
The MagPI is the official Raspberry PI magazine that you can buy at your local newsstand or download for free in PDF and in this month’s edition, the magazine brings an article teaching the readers to install and configure UAE4ARM in a Raspberry PI. Slot the microSD card into your Pi and power up. It’ll boot directly into the UAE4ARM emulator… The…
