Category: Programming
After the amazing game ‘Majesty of Sprites’, the group Bauknecht has released a new game, ‘The Lands of Zador’, another jump’n’run platform game for the Plus/4. The game got the 3rd place of the game competition on Revision 2016, featuring 8 super colorful and beautifully design levels where the character, Kate, must complete some tasks in any single level to go further in…
This issue features a behind-the-scenes look by Ian Johnson at his work bringing Japanese language support to the Apple IIGS; an interview with Jimmy Maher of The Digital Antiquarian; David Schmenk’s introductory tutorial for programming in PLASMA; a review of Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs film; a reflection on lessons learned using the Apple II in a modern high-school classroom; and…
The 8-bit guy YouTube channel turned on the reference of easy to understand explanations about old tech. Few months back his video entitle “How oldschool graphics worked Part 1″ was watched by more than 2 million times after it reached most of the major tech news outlets. This new release talks about the CGA graphics standard seen on many PC compatibles computer…
‘Project SIDFX’ is a new hardware expansion for any C64, SX-64, and C128 allowing them to use 1 or 2 SIDs chips, even of different models! Currently accepting pre-orders, the new board looks very powerful allowing the user to switch between SID chips while playing the tune.For now, this can be achieved via a hardware switch, but the board is prepared…
Bubbo World is the third entry participating on MSXDev’15 compo. It is a platform/action game where the main objective is to collect the gold while avoiding the rocks falling from the top. The hero, besides running around, can drop ladders to reach other areas or teleport to a random position on the screen. There are dead ends where the falling…
MSXDev’15 Competition reached its deadline and gets four entries. You might think that four is a small number, but that will change after you see them in action. All entries present a professional look that will make the task to decide which is the best a nightmare. These are the four entries: Wing Warriors, from EGS/Kitmaker, a vertical-scrolling shoot’em up with…
We have talked about Sam’s Journey, a brand-new original scrolling platform game developed for the Commodore 64 home computer. It’s about a cute little hero called Sam who finds himself on an unexpected journey in a strange world. Knights of Bytes has release a new teaser video, showing the hero discover another costume that gives him a white cap and…
Retro Commodore website brings high-quality scans for you Commodore machines. Today, they made available three new (old) books for the Commodore 64. Commodore 64 Assembler Workshop by Bruce Smith A pocket handbook for the Commodore 64 by Peter Gerrard & Danny Doyle A childs guide to the Commodore 64 by John Dewhirst. Retro Commodore PDF are usually larger than the average…
Relauch64 is a cross-platform IDE for Commodore 64 available for Mac, Windows and Linux, and the developers behind the project just released a new version 3.3.6. This editor works together with common cross assemblers. The supported assemblers are 64tass, ACME, ca65, DASM, DreamAss, Kick Assembler and TMPx. Other assemblers might work as well, but syntax highlighting may not be 100%…
ZX-UNO is an FPGA-based ZX Spectrum clone project that just finished its crowdfunding campaign on Verkami. Due to its success the campaign ended earlier, surpassing the 16,000 euros goal. The interesting aspect of the project is that it is open not only clone a ZX Spectrum. The board is a complete development platform that due to the nature of the FPGA,…
