Category: Programming
Another beta version of Space Chase, a fast 2-player shooter for the CBM II series of computers, has been released. The fast-paced shooter makes a good use of the (lack of) graphic capabilities of the, once business oriented, Commodore machine. Space Chase can be played by one or two players. In one player mode, the computer takes over player 2. For…
The Spectrum Next is, in my opinion, causing more buzz around the retro-computing community than the VEGA and as consequence, people want to know more details about the project. The website Flickering Myth has published an interview with Henrique Olifiers, who is part of the team bringing the ZX Spectrum Next to us. Probably the most interesting piece of information the…
Almost one year ago, we posted about the Xenon 2: Megablast port for the Atari Jaguar. Time enough to almost forget about it, but we didn’t! You will be pleased to know that the game is now available for you to order, directly from the developer Cyrano Jones. We are talking about a boxed cartridge The Bitmap Brothers classic game port…
Eric Schlaepfer has created and built a huge 6502 microprocessor, The Monster 6502 using discrete components. The oversized “chip” measures 12×15 inches and show through LEDs how the iconic 6502 works to process all the data you see in your Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari and many other microcomputers and game consoles we love. It took a little more than…
The season of game development competition is open, with many compos for many platforms. This one is being organized by Reset Magazine with the theme “Craptastic”, which features the traditional crap game competition that is found on other platforms as well. The games can only use 4Kb of memory which limits a lot the use of graphics, but it is…
The University of Alicante has launched the 4th edition of CPCRetroDev, the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. Offering 1050 Euros in prizes, divided in 3 categories, the game competition calls for participants. Anyone interested to participate can send his/her entry until October 26th, 2016 (23h59m CEST timezone). The categories and prizes are as follows: Special awards 125 €…
ABBUC Software Development Competition 2016 for Atari is a go and although there are not much information yet, we know that it will have two categories this year: Games and Applications. Also, the organizers let us know that the first place on each category will get 500€! If you didn’t get started yet it is better to hurry, since the…
From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years has now been released digitally exclusively on Vimeo on Demand. From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years tells the story of how the Commodore Amiga was created and then how once released in 1985 it went onto to help change not only the way games were played and experienced but also how they were designed for…
Finally after 30 years, Pentagram for the ZX Spectrum came to live on the C64, thanks to Rod and Emu game development group. Pentagram, an isometric adventure game was released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum and MSX by Ultimate Play The Game. The C64 release got a staggering 9.7 score on CSDb, which by itself is an amazing achievement. The current version is…
Hoxs64 Commodore 64 emulator for Windows was updated to version 1.0.8.9. Although not as “famous” as VICE, Hoxs64 aims to be compatible with the real machine in all details. The update has a small fix for a problem found in “Vandalism News #64″, where a write to the raster compare register was causing a raster IRQ to occur one clock too soon….
