Category: Programming
If you ever thought about learning a bit of MSX Assembler, today is your lucky day. The Nestruo, Toni Galvez and Wonder entered MSXdev’14 with “World Rally”, a car racing game, but they weren’t able to finish it on time. After some time they realized that they wouldn’t finish it at all, since there are several routines that needed to…
The Computer History Museum has been releasing several historical software source code for the past years, like the Apple II DOS, Word for Windows v1.1 and so on. Right on time for the Amiga 30th anniversary, the museum has gotten authorization from Electronic Arts to release the source code of its drawing program for the Amiga – Deluxe Paint. Created…
‘Who Dares Wins’ is getting a 2015 remake by Retroforce team. According to MSX Resource Center, it is expected the implementation of Screen 5 graphic mode, new sound effects, multicolor sprites, improved controls, 3 optional new color palettes and the usage of the SCC for the musics. Who Dares Wins II is inspired by Capcom’s hit arcade game Commando, and…
Bomber is a new game for the Atari 8-bit computers, and it is based on a game of the same name released back in 1992, for the Commodore Format magazine cover tape. Based on Kaboom by Activision, the gameplay is fairly simple. The Mad bomber drops bombs from the top of different scenarios, and at the bottom, the player controls…
John Riggs just made what is probably one of the most touching tributes in memory of Satoru Iwata. He hacked Balloon Fight, replacing the protagonist with another image resembling Iwata. He also made the balloons shaped like Kirby. Riggs mentions on his video (below) that Iwata sprite was actually taken from Earthbound, another game that he was involved with. [youtube…
To celebrate 31th anniversary of the Amstrad CPC, Chris “NovaBug” Weatherley has made a 1-hour long video presenting 464 games running on Amstrad CPC. Some great, Some bad, some ugly, but all on the Amstrad. All games featured here are playable on the CPC464, but some may require the additional 64k memory pak and FD1 floppy disk drive. No GX4000…
If you think that it is taking too long to get your hands on the new Mac OSX “El Capitan”, you should consider what the Apple IIgs users have been through. After exactly 22 years, 2 months, 2 days and 2 hours since System 6.0.1 was released, a new version of the Apple IIgs operating system has been released. Of…
Fernando Pena, known as “ferix” on English Amiga Board has posted some updates in his project to create a SD Card interface for the Amiga. There are some videos showing the card working, and it looks pretty amazing. Although we already have the option to buy GOTEK drives for the Amiga, having an SD Card interface is very appealing, and…
We had reported here about the MS-DOS port of Retro City Rampage. The game made its way to all major platforms since 2012, and now the developer wants to release it for MS-DOS, preferable using floppy disks!. Gamasutra sat with Brian and talked about his project. Right, but this was something I wanted to do years and years ago (…)…
Are you on a hunt to learn or improve your Apple II programming skills? Here is a great opportunity for you! Rebecca Heineman releases source for IIGS version of Space Ace on GitHub. Back in 1990, Rebecca bought a copy of the game released by ReadySoft and didn’t like the fact the port was only for ProDOS, requiring you to…
