Category: Retro Gaming
With 640 colors on screen with AGA (128 with OCS/ECS), this Frontend can autoscan your hard-drive to find all your whdload games or your .exe and organize them in launching listings. X-bEnCh can also manage manuals listings and have an internal script system, the X-bEnCh Scripts (For non whdload games for example). It requires very few resources and is compatible…
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver known for their work as video game developers. They began to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school, contributing their first type-in game to a magazine in 1983. They worked with publishers Codemasters for a number of years following their first collaboration Super Robin Hood, most…
Atariteca, the best Atari-only website in Spanish is conducting a non-scientific poll, trying to elect the best Atari game released in 2016. The list only includes new games released in 2016 so all ports of games from other platforms or hacks/improvements were kept out. Although the poll lets you click multiple times for as many games you want, I hope the poll…
As you may of noticed we now try to cover the best game cracks from CSDb, however with all the many releases on CSDb, you may miss some. Below are all the releases from 3rd December to date, click on the name of each one to view more information. The last christmas ever, Tronscii Preview, Sleighed, Mrs Blinky #Pacdrama, VICE…
“Bear?” asked Hedgehog. “What’s that you’ve got there?”“It’s a new C64 game from Pond”. Bear said with abig smile on his face, “and it’s got ME in it, look!”“Oh”, squeaked Hedgehog. “Can I have a go?” Help Bear collect fruit for the winter in this new platform game featuring simultaneous music and sfx. Face 60 enemy types while exploring 60…
For those of you that just don’t have enough room in your house to store so much classic hardware, there is always emulation. I have used emulation for a long time now, in fact it was the main reason I bought a pc computer way back in 1998, after seeing Magic Engine emulator running on a friends Pentium 3 450mhz….
Legion Of Doom (LOD) (P,Csaba (Csabo) have released a new homebrew puzzle game for the Commodore Plus/4 Computer. Fit pieces onto a 10×10 board. Complete rows and columns to clear blocks. The game can be played on real hardware, or through emulation such as YAPE. You can also play it right now online here. Download: Plus/4 World, Pouet Website: plus4world.powweb.com
C64.com website has interviewed Richard Leinfellner. Richard is a game developer who worked on the classic Cauldron as well as other games such as, Barbarian, The Sacred Armour of Antiriad, Dan Malone’s brainchild and The Evil Dead. You can read the lengthy review over at c64.com
Did you miss the magazine’s type-in era? Very few would actually miss it, but it brings good feelings remembering the days and nights typing programs from magazine’s listings, mainly when the program didn’t work, or a power outage would end it for you! Well, now is time to get revenge – people will type in your program and you might get prizes for…
Bill Lange has published on his blog a nice 2017 calendar that you can print yourself. Each month features an iconic game published for the Atari 8-bit computers. The year starts with Jumpman for January, followed by other classics like Cavern of Mars, Hardball, Pole Position, ending with Dandy! The calendar has two pages for each month, one with a screen…
