Category: Programming
(This article is written by Jim Gerrie on his blog entitled “January 2016 Retrochallenge 8: New 10-Liner Puzzle Game ‘Dash’” and reproduced here with permission) Dave Maunder (Bushy555), a member of the Yahoo MC-10 group and an avid user of the VZ200/300 posted that there is an up-coming 10-Liner Basic game programming contest being hosted by the Retrocomputing site Homputerium and posted…
The official ASSASSIN CREW youtube channel has published a music collection with 45 songs that were converted from the Commodore 64 to the Plus/4. Assassin Crew is a group responsible for many releases for the Plus/4 including Xplode Man and Memento, and once more, they surprised us with this excellent chiptunes selection! [youtube wcwCmYcmTno nolink]
880 Gamer is a English pdf magazine for the Amiga user focused on games. This issue brings several interesting articles and reviews including Game On!: Cartoon Classics Pack, Tearaway Thomas, Belial, Fears, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge and Star Wars. If having great articles wasn’t enough, the magazine download file also includes an ADF file containing Lotus III and tearaway Thomas. Link:…
Rxsherm has published a 3-minute video on YouTube showing how would be if ‘Siri’ was available for the Apple II, circa 1984. The author’s ‘Siri’ has a complete full-text parser that can understand multiple phrases and punctuation, software-based voice synthesis, access to external (some) external data and more. This ‘Siri’ voice is not as pleasing as the modern version, but…
A new and improved version of Dingo for the Spectrum is available for download The changes in the 2015 version (version 1.3) are; A much improved control method. This was the bug-bear for many people with the original release, but it’s now MUCH better. Enemy pre-spawn warning – so you can see where the Dingos are about to appear and…
Skool Daze is finally complete and freely available. Skool Daze is a computer game released by Microsphere in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 computers. It was written by David and Helen Reidy, with graphics designed by Keith Warrington. The game was commercially and critically successful, and praised for its original concept. It has since been regarded as…
DurexForth team has been very active lately. They just released the version 1.5.2 of the language for the Commodore 64 with the following changes: bugfix: find now handles the empty string correctly bugfix: editor didn’t work correctly with big files (over $1000 bytes) forth: the interpreter now prints “ok” after interpreting forth: abort” now inverts the text editor: open files…
What can you make using only 10 lines in a BASIC program? That is what this contest wants to see. The contest is open for all 8-bit computers using any line-based BASIC interpreter. There are few categories you can try to snag the first spot: Category “PUR-80”: Write a game in 10 lines (max. 80 characters per logical line, abbreviations are…
It is almost one year since we posted about an upcoming R-Type game for the Atari STE. We are a bit late to tell you that the game was released last Christmas, but since it is never too late to have good news, here it is! The game can now be downloaded for free from Atari-Forum .com, and it was…
KansasFest 2016, the 28th annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 19 – 24 in Kansas City, Missouri. This edition will have a very important presence, Mike Harvey, founder and publisher of Nibble magazine, the “Magazine for Apple II Enthusiasts”. Nibble was published between 1980 and 1992. KansasFest is an annual convention offering Apple II users and retrocomputing enthusiasts…
