Category: Retro Gaming

This is what I call retro gaming archeology commitment! Ed Fries, who worked at Microsoft and was one of the people responsible for the development of the original XBOX Ed Fries, who worked at Microsoft and was one of the people responsible for the development of the original XBOX, is an avid Arcade collector that goes beyond playing with them. At…

Cult of Mac has published this article talking about Jason Scott’s quest to find and archive all software ever published for the Apple II. Jason works for the retro computer enthusiast’s best friend, the Internet Archive. Although it is something that many people have been doing over this years, it is reassuring that the Internet Archive has someone dedicated to such task. “I tell…

Well it’s been a nightmare few weeks for me, As some of you know I was hit hard with the flu a couple of weeks ago, my father is in hospital again (won’t go into details but he’s doing ok), a few weeks ago I was made redundant from my so called ‘Secure’ job, and last the few days, I lost…

The Digital Antiquarian is back with a new article where he discusses one of the best adventure games ever made (the best in my opinion!), The Secret of Monkey Island by Lucas Film, and created by Ron Gilbert. Entitled “Monkey Island (or, How Ron Gilbert Made an Adventure Game That Didn’t Suck)” the article goes back and forth with historical data…

I love retro computing history and every time I see a new book coming out I get excited and hope it is really good! Yesterday a new book came out – Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation. The history of Atari is already told by the excellent Atari Inc. Business is Fun. However, a more straightforward approach to Atari 8-bit computers…

It all started back in 2015 when a new Amstrad CPC game was revealed here on VITNO. Although the game development was never abandoned, there was very few information throughout the last two years. This month, we finally have more updates about the game created by  4Mhz  for AMSTRAD CPC, coded by JGNAVARRO, music and sound fx by MCKLAIN and graphics by SAD1942. The…

ZERO and the Castle of Infinite Sadness was released earlier as a freeware 32k ROM in the MSXDev ’14. Dioniso has been working on an improved 48k ROM version, with the following enhancements: expanding the stages from 35 to 80 added an intro demo updated graphics fixed sprite detection routines modifying the easy mode so that the screen won’t be…

VIChaos is a port of the Spectrum game for VIC-20. The game requires 16k memory expansion. VIChaos is a turn based wizard battle strategy game for 0-8 players. The original version by Julian Gollop was released on the Spectrum in 1985. This port is based on the GBA port sources (chaos-0.82). Source code is included in the download. Download: vichaos.zip Source:…

Issue 96 of ‘Commodore Free’, the magazine dedicated to Commodore computers is now available for download. The magazine is available in the following formats; PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML, TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image. Website: http://www.commodorefree.com Previous Issue: Commodore Free issue95.pdf

Issue #125 of Amiga Future, The English and German Amiga magazine has been released. In this edition: Editorial, News, Spielfeld, Easter Egg, Lords of Doom, Boxx3, Tunnels and Trolls, Bubble Ghost, CD32 X-Men: Mind Games, AmigaOS 4 Update 1, SDK Browser 2.1, Amiga 1200 case, MuiBase, Insider – Sonny Bonds ein Cop packt aus, Trevors Soapbox, Commodore UK (2), Demoscene, Amiga…