Category: Retro Gaming

New MSX2 game remake 'Head Over Heels' almost ready for debut

MSX Resource Centre has reported that a remake of the game ‘Head Over Heels’, an isometric arcade adventure game released in 1987, is almost ready for release. After one year in development, the FX Project team has announced that the game is practically ready and only few fixes and final tweaks are remaining.  It’s expected to sell the game during the next…

'Deep Core Raider' – New game for the ZX Spectrum

Deep Core Raider is a new game developed by Paul Jenkinson, created using the AGD game engine. The game premise let you control your pod and navigate deeper into the planets to collect any minerals you can find while avoiding the corporate defence cannons. There is also the fuel that you have to keep under control.   The game works very like…

Amiga CD32 Covers – Team 17 : The Complete Amiga Works

Amiga CD32 Alternate Covers has released its largest release to date: Team 17 – The Complete Amiga Works. Team17 is a British video game developer, best known for creating the Worms and Alien Breed series. “Most of their early releases were on the Amiga home computer system and featured trademark smooth scrolling, and detailed cartoonish art. Team17 now develops for Microsoft…

'CPCTelera' – The Amstrad CPC game engine for C developers has new major release

CPCTelera is a modern, cross-platform game engine for the Amstrad CPC using the C language. Francisco Gallego, the main developer responsible for the library has announced that, after a long development cycle, the version 1.4 has been released. This is a major release with several new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Also, the license was changed from GPL to LGPL,…

The TRS-80's Lost Game Designs – GDC Presentation

It was published today a video presentation from the Game Developer Conference 2012 featuring our beloved TRS-80 and its iconic games. The presentation is about game design where Jim McGinley shows many classic TRS-80 games like Dancing Demon and Outhouse, and how some of them had a fantastic design considering how limited is the machine’s resolution. He has some interesting views…

The dawn of the CoCo clones in Brazil

(Article by Daniel Campos, translated by Paulo Garcia) I believe this article doesn’t bring a lot of new information for those who follow my articles because I’d been promising an article talking about the computer that originates the history of the CoCo clones in Brazil for almost a year. The history The CD-6809 was the first CoCo clone produced in Brazil…

New hardware brings more RAM for your VIC-20 than you can imagine

Retro Innovations has made available the UltiMem VIC-20 Memory Expansion Cartridge that adds more than 8MB of FLASH ROM storage and 1MB of RAM! Here are the specs: 8 (eight) megabytes of VIC-20 programmable FLASH ROM storage. 1 (one) megabyte of yummy RAM storage. A myriad of configuration options, to suit your tastes You want ROM at $2000 and RAM at…

More about Atari's Star Raiders Source Code

Atariage forum lwiest has published an updated version of his reverse-engineered version of Atari Star Raiders on Github. This new update brings small corrections and updates, mostly based on the official game source code also released on Internet Archive. Iwiest’s version also brings an extensive documentation, which is perfect for whoever wants to learn how the game came about. Link: GithubLink:…

Encrypted Juiced.GS Magazine (April's Fool Joke)

  Since we have very angry visitors (I am looking at you Commodore community), we don’t do any prank or fake article for April 1st in respect to them. That don’t prevent us from posting something about someone else’s jokes containing a note stating that it is an April fool’s joke, of course. This one came from Apple II Juiced.GS…

ZX Spectrum game dev compo closed for new submissions. Time to play and vote!

ZX Dev’15 has finished its first phase where then game entries are submitted. The compo has received 15 games that you can now download, play and vote! With that many games, we can say the compo response was more than excellent and now to be completely successful, it needs your help to choose the best games.  The entries are: Complica DX…