Category: Programming
Star Raiders is one of the most pleased games released for the Atari 8-bit machines. Created by Doug Neubauer, it was released in cartridge form by Atari in 1979. It was big news last week (yeah, I know, I am late) that Kevin Savetz had received the full source code listing of Star Raiders, and he was about to scan…
A2heaven is a webstore selling modern hardware for the Apple II line of computers, include the IIe and IIc, including the Apple IIC VGA NTSC, allowing to connect VGA monitor to your IIc, and the SDFloppy II, and Disk II emulator that uses SD Card as storage media. Check it out the new store following the link below. Link: a2Heaven
QUOD INIT EXIT is a new fast-paced game for the Commodore 64. There you control a little pig running and jumping the platforms to get the “good” food, and avoid the bad ones. As you eat, the gauge at the bottom fills up. As soon it gets completed you will have to jump onto the toilet seat to be sent to…
Eidothea – The Daughter of Protheus is the newest entry for the SEUCK Sideways Competition 2015, released today. Developed by Errazking and music by Richard Bayliss, the game follows the traditional Sideways shooter. The graphics are good, but the sound effects are the highlight of the game. Unfortunately, the collision handling is far from perfect and sometimes you can see you can fit in…
A2Central has let us know that UltimateMicro will begin shipping pre-orders of their new 8Meg IIGS RAM Card v2.0 starting next week. Priced at USD $249 in their store, there will also be a $279 Buy It Now option via eBay. The design of this card started out as a clone of the CVTech 8MB card, but it’s an entirely new…
If you are around 40 years old or younger you’ve probably never used a punch card to code. I, when started college in 1988 also didn’t have a chance to do it, by one semester (I know, 1988 and still using punch cards is kind of weird, but my College didn’t have a big budget!). Now you can experience it (and…
A new version of Sugarbox, a new Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows, was released. The main feature of the new version is the support of online libraries like CPC-Power and Amstrad.eu. Another interesting feature is the support for black frame insertion, which will provide a smooth scrolling on 100hz capable displays. Source: Octoate.de
#CPCRetroDev 2015 has ended with one of the greatest results in years for all the Amstrad community. A total of 35 games were presented, and most of them being really high quality. The winner is ‘Space Moves’, followed by Frogalot and Top Top. For the CPC retro gamers out there, this is a very long list of amazing games to…
Atariage’s “mariuszw” & team has released his new game – The Great Escape, ported from the C64 version which was published by Ocean 1986, along with the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions. As we all know, the game’s objective is to help the hero, a war prisoner, to escape from a German camp. The gaming environment is displayed in isometric 2.5D…
Your favorite Commodore Magazine has just released issue 89 with lots of articles, interviews and game reviews for the C64, VIC-20, Amiga and all the Commodore family of computers. The interviews are with Steve Reed from WWW.C64COPYPROTECTION.COM and CLOAN NEWSLETTERS, and Sean Peck, creator of Kipperterm 128. It reviews games like Meteor Defender for the Amiga and Abyssonaut for the for…
