Category: Programming
‘E-Type’ was first released for the BBC Micro in 1989. The game is a version of the Arcade driving game Out Run (Sega) where you basically have to drive as much as you can avoiding incoming traffic and obstacles. Fast-forward to 2015, Fandal and Irgendwer decided to make a port of the game for the Atari 130XE and the result is…
Mr Atari has given to all of us an amazing Xmas present, ‘Lost in Space’ a new game for the Atari 8-bit computers. The game guide starts with “You are a space-captain racing against rivaling lunar-landers. Your goal is to land and rendezvous 15 times. Can you beat the competition or set an unbeatable mission-time?” The game contains five challenging…
RevEng user on Atariage has organized a new wiki page about programming for the Atari 7800 at 7800.8bitdev.org. He explains that “those of us that have taken up 7800 development can attest that there’s a lot of information scattered about the net on programming the 7800, but much of it is outdated, and much of it is languishing. The wiki…
Hokuto Force has released a preview of its upcoming arcade port, Frogger. If you were living on the moon for the past three decades, on the game you control a frog trying to get across the road and the river. You have to time your jumps to avoid the cars and drowning on the river. The game presented here is…
Tales of Gorluth I – The Tear Stone Saga is an Amiga game released by AmiWorx in 2014, that is being for sale for some time as physical CD. Now the game is also available as free download. Features of the game: Linear action adventure game Over 5 hours of gameplay 64 colour graphics More than…
The year of 2015 was a great year for the vintage computing magazine with several new magazines being published and one of my favourites has just released a new issue. The 3rd issue of Komoda & Amiga Plus Magazine is now available in PDF, both in English and Polish covering most of Commodore’s computers, including modern Amiga OS. Besides the…
WinUAE needs no introduction, it is the best option to emulate Amiga computers in your Windows machine. The team behind its development has just released the final version 3.2.2, with the following changes: Bug fixes: JIT FPU 32-bit and 64-bit compatibility fixes. Interlace mode blank screen in some configurations. Slirp network mode high CPU usage. Some programs that use AGA…
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Michael Mulhern Host’s Topic: 2016, Here We Come What are your big retro plans for 2016? Writing something, building something, fixing something, selling something? Retro Computing News: MIST FPGA Pictures from World of Commodore 2015 Pictures from World of Commodore 2015 EDSAC Update – Two new videos BBC News article on the EDSAC…
This morning I learned about a new Amiga 500 emulator that runs on Google Chrome. It is a native port using Portable Native Client, a way to run existing C/C++ in the browser in a safe way across operating systems and across machine architectures. I was curious to see how it performs, so I spent some time playing with it. As…
Altirra, the Atari 8-bit emulator for Windows, gets a new update. The open source project aiming emulation quality, sometimes over speed and polish. It’s designed as a system emulator and debugger instead of a games machine, so there is some setup involved. Altirra features: Emulates the Atari 400/800, 1200XL, 600/800XL, 130XE, XEGS, and 5200 systems. Full, cycle-exact emulation of all…
