Category: Programming
BOMBER, a game for the Atari XL/XE, made the second place at the 2015 ABBUC-Software-Competition and now it is available for purchase as a limited boxed edition. All the games were recorded on never used floppies to ensure quality and reliability. The box also contains a download code for BOMBER in three formats: Bootdisk, DOS-Disk and .xex-File. The game can be ordered…
For most of us, if not all of us, getting books from the 80s in PDF form is nothing really new, as we are used getting them from several different sources, including Internet Archive, Bombjack.org and many others. Nonetheless, it is newsworthy when a publishing house decided to post his 1980s catalog for free. The books are mostly targetted to…
DrHonz was feeling extra generous today and has also published the source codes of Manic Miner. The zip file available contains the D64 image file with the game ready to be played, as well as all the assembler source code to be compiled using DASM. As far as I could see, the source code is super well organized and full…
DrHonz (Honz Liepa) has released on CSDb a batch of several Boulder Dash games, with the source code included. There are a new release plus several others that were released in the past. I am always excited when I see releases with the source included, which helps to share knowledge and bring more C64 enthusiasts up to speed which could,…
If you follow our (almost) daily posts, you probably saw one about the 2016 BASIC Tenliner contest, that is happening right now until March 28th. After reading the appeal made on MSX Resource Center, calling for MSX programmers to participate in the contest, I decided to listen and give my contribution. The only caveat is that I never had done…
The Obligement Amiga website published the results of its pool which let you chose the best Amiga games of 2015. The list below shows the 3 first places of each category and the link will take you to a gameplay video (or info page), in case you haven’t seen them before! AmigaOS (68k): Zerosphere – Code Red / Alexander Grupe SQRXZ 3 –…
When I saw this game today on CSDb I thought “Uh, shiny!”. With that profound thought in mind, I downloaded it to check it out. The very first thing I noticed is the use of the old school password for each level, so you don’t have to restart the game from the beginning every time is game over. So make sure…
You will feel like you are wearing a hazmat suit while handling a dangerous virus in a lab. The Internet Archive just released The Malware Museum displaying a collection of viruses that were spread in de the 80s and 90s. If names like PYRAMID.COM, ITALIAN.COM and ZHU.COM make you tremble in terror, you will love to visit the Internet Archive collection and…
The Return of Heracles is an adventure game for the Commodore 64 (and other machines) written by Stuart Smith and published by Quality Software in 1983, where you can play as many heroes from Greek myth. Thirty-three years have passed and he Fairlight demoscene group has released a cracked version with a trainer and custom loader. You can download the game…
KansasFest 2016, the 28th annual Apple II convention, is now open for registration. Users, programmers, hobbyists, and retrocomputing enthusiasts are invited to Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 19, through Sunday, July 24, for six days and five nights of sessions, demos, announcements, contests, and camaraderie. Mike Harvey, a business executive, salesperson, technologist, project manager, entrepreneur, programmer,…
