Category: Programming

Forum 64 has released the rules for its new game competition 2016. The theme is “strategy games”. The competition will run from January 1st to Oct 31st 2016, but the registration has to be done until Dec 31st of this year.  The forum thread explains the definition of Strategy games, and what will be accept. You can read all the…

The Golden Apple is a luxurious one-off-a-kind replica and a tribute to the 128k. It’s handmade from American walnut instead of molded from plastics, but the dimensions are kept unaltered. And just as the original, the replica has the built in handle for lifting. The Golden Apple does look like a classic Macintosh, but in reality has an up-to-date Mac…

Wiebo de Wit has released a new post of his serie “Tetris in 6502 Assembler” for the Commodore 64. On this article he tackles the generation of random numbers and the keyboard input. Although the article is focused on the C64, the techniques are applicable for all 6502-based machines. It is worth checking this and all the previous articles. Link:…

Lachlan Keown released a new version of his Retro Game Asset Studio (RGAS). With RGAS you can design various asset types (sprites, sound / music, levels) for different retro computers (Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum). It is a cross-development tool, which runs on the .NET runtime under Windows and with Mono it can be used under Linux, too. It is…

Spanish homebrew developers The Mojon Twins are back with yet another free release – this time a port of a ZX Spectrum game from 2005 known as Moggy. Your goal in each screen is getting each one of your pink friends, avoiding touching the green bushes. You can download the game following the link below. Download: Mojo Twins Source: RetroCollect

ABBUC 2015 software development contest is over, and now you can download Toy’Swap, a match-gems type of game developed for the Atari 8-bit. The developer explains to Atariteca that even relying on modern cross-compilers and emulators for the development, the game took him about 99 sessions with some of them ranging from 2 to 5 hours of development to be…

For programmers and curious alike, I’ve found an interesting article written by Eugene Zaikonnikov about LISP for the ZX Spectrum. Home users had usually to rely on the built-in BASIC or buy 3rd party packages to program in PASCAL, C and other languages. Serious Software SpecLisp is the LISP implementation for the Speccy, and now with plenty of information available at the…

EmaC=s is an alternate screen editor for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 with the Emacs bindings. Another nice thing about this editor is that it is made in Assembler and the source code is available on Github. Even if you are not an Emacs user, it might be very educative check the source code. Link: Github

There are people studying Latin, Archeology, Ancient History and other “Vintage Subjects” all around the World. How about using MSX BASIC to teach your Computer Science studies some coding. The teacher at Dublin Institute of Technology did that. He gave to his students an assignment that made them use an MSX (emulator) to read some code to be then translated…

DurexForth is a modern implementation of the language Forth for the Commodore 64, and the team behind its development has just released the version 1.4.3. This new version brings bug fixes and some new additions. If you never tried, Forth is a language very different than the traditional ones, so to speak. Compared to C64 Basic, Forth is more attractive in…