Category: Retro Gaming
You will feel like you are wearing a hazmat suit while handling a dangerous virus in a lab. The Internet Archive just released The Malware Museum displaying a collection of viruses that were spread in de the 80s and 90s. If names like PYRAMID.COM, ITALIAN.COM and ZHU.COM make you tremble in terror, you will love to visit the Internet Archive collection and…
The Return of Heracles is an adventure game for the Commodore 64 (and other machines) written by Stuart Smith and published by Quality Software in 1983, where you can play as many heroes from Greek myth. Thirty-three years have passed and he Fairlight demoscene group has released a cracked version with a trainer and custom loader. You can download the game…
We have recently posted about the availability of the Vampire II accelerator board for the Amiga 600 and how it would make your old friend fly. Since then, a lot of buzz about the board happened on the Amiga Facebook groups Commodore Amiga and Amiga Friends. Two happy users have just received their boards and kindly wrote their Review/First Impressions. There…
KansasFest 2016, the 28th annual Apple II convention, is now open for registration. Users, programmers, hobbyists, and retrocomputing enthusiasts are invited to Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 19, through Sunday, July 24, for six days and five nights of sessions, demos, announcements, contests, and camaraderie. Mike Harvey, a business executive, salesperson, technologist, project manager, entrepreneur, programmer,…
A new version of WinApe, the Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows containing bug fixes and improvements. Here is the complete changelist for the new version: Correct Z80 Flags emulation for IN and OUT and all derivatives. Added support for CRTC Type 1 register 6 border blanking when set to zero. Changed breakpoint conditions to use 32 bit values rather than 16 bit values….
Sprite Castle, the podcast about the Commodore 64 has a new episode. This week, Rob O’hara covers the 1985 Data East game KARATE CHAMP. If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on Sprite Castle by accessing the podcast website, following the link below. Link: Sprite Castle
Juha-Pekka Jokela has created this game for the Global Game Jam that happened last weekend (Jan 29-31). It is a simple action game for Commodore 64 where you take a role of a priest, trying to survive in a haunted house by performing rituals to stop haunting. To play, move priest around with the joystick. Whenever there’s ghost around you, find…
John Calhoun has released the source code of the games he developed for the Macintosh (System 7) on Github. The games available are Glider, Glider PRO, Glypha III and Pararena. You can check Pararena 2 game play on the video below. The games were developed in C and the fact they are now available as source code, it is a great…
Ok, this is another Kickstarted campaign, but we have to admit and understand that Retro-gaming in general is not very profitable and these awesome developers out there need some help! This time we are talking about a campaign that will interest mostly the Colecovision fans: Super Arcade Controllers and Adapters for Colecovision! The nice thing about the project is that the…
I really enjoy to watch It’s a Pixel Thing! with its light approach and full of interesting information while keeping a comfortable 10 minutes duration. This new episode the show will tell you the amazing story of British developer Imagine Software, its ascent to the stars and spectacular demise! [youtube 6KR0ZnylfLk nolink] Link: It’s a Pixel Thing Youtube Channel
