Category: Programming
The 2015 Sideways SEUCK compo came to an end. Although counting only with three contestants, the competition was fierce due to the high quality of all three games. With 79 votes the winner is PAN!, followed by U-91306 Eidothea with 76 votes. The third place, grabbing 72 votes, was Edge of Time. I shot three short videos of the gameplay of all…
To celebrate 2016, it was released a new edition of the ‘New Years Disc’ by the Atariage user ‘pps’. It is a 5-disc compilation of great graphics, demos, games and music put together for your entertainment. The contents of the pack: Disc 1 – multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density) ——————————————– Getting into 2016 (3 screener) by miker & PPs Chi Bao (sound)…
Officially starting on January 1st, Retrochallenge ‘Winter Warmup edition’ is again running full speed. The competition will run from January 1st to the end of the month. Blog entries should be complete by midnight on Sunday 31st January GMT. If you are still thinking on participating, email mark at wickensonline dot co dot uk with your name (or handle) a brief synopsis of…
Lavadeira.net has a long-run series of articles teaching C Programming for the MSX machines. These are the latest articles: #40: Functions in MSX-C (Part 1) Functions. Declarations, definitions and externs. How to define functions that don’t take parameters. Functions declared locally inside other functions. #39: Graphic characters and additional quoted symbols The MSX graphic characters and the 2-byte sequences to…
Petscii-Poker, developed by the group Software of Sweden, was released a while back and now has been updated delivering faster gameplay and also miscellaneous bug fixes. As the name suggest, it is a poker game that uses PETSCII characters to represent the graphics, with very impressive results. The background music is another welcome touch that creates a nice mood to…
It is January already but it is never late to know about Apple II presents you can buy for yourself. This issue features a review of the Uthernet II networking card; an interview with anonymous cracker 4am; Lucia Grossberger Morales’ recounting of her collaboration with Bob Bishop and the creation of SpaceLace; an examination of how ProDOS deletes and undeletes…
The Atariage user mariuszw has posted his work developing Pentagram, the final game in Sabreman saga, and it is a sequel to well known Knight Lore. He mentions that the game is being ported from the ZX Spectrum (as the images make that clear), and the most impressive thing about that is that he has developed a recompiler that takes the…
Who doesn’t love Duke Nukem? (except Duke Nukem Forever of course!). I remember spending countless hours playing it and laughing at Duke’s toughness. But that was Duke Nukem 3D! Not sure if it is common knowledge but Duke Nukem started as a 2D platform, released back in 1991 by Apogee Software for MS-DOS. The homebrew developer Revo decided to make a…
This compo is really interesting. While most compos would not allow anything other than standard machines, ZX Enhanced takes the opposite approach. Only ZX Spectrum compatible machines that have some enhancement can participate. The compo rules state that “target platforms must be equipped with various extensions like graphic modes other than ‘6912’, RAM above 128kB, CPU clock frequency above 3.5MHz…
Onslaught has been around for 20 years already. With almost one thousand releases, the demo scene group is one of the most relevant around. To celebrate its 20 years, the group has released a new demo showing some amazing effects as well as paying homage to its members and friends. Vintage is the New Old has published the demo on our…
