Category: Retro Gaming
Although it is the only Apple II podcast around, it deserves the “best” title. Open Apple brings every month a nice balance of technical, geek and normal retro computing discussions regarding the Apple II. This month’s episode, number 55, brings Henry Courbis, co-proprietor of Ultimate Micro, serial entrepreneur, and Open Source guy. Henry is boldly going where no hobbyist has gone before, by…
If you CRT is dying fast, and the options to connect your Amiga to a modern monitor are not easy to come around, you should take a look at the A520HD, the HDTV equivalent of the classic Commodore A520 TV modulator. Instead of encoding the Amiga video signal to a low-quality composite output it converts the RGB output to a high-quality…
Hosted by the Glenside Color Computer Club, CoCoFEST! is an annual festival centered around the Radio Shack Color Computer and other 6809-based hardware and operating systems, bringing together retro computing enthusiasts from around the globe. The organizers want to make clear that other 8-bit computers and operating systems are also welcome! The event will happen on April 23 and 24,…
The AtariAge forum user ‘mgr_inz_rafal’ has released a new game for the Atari 8-bit computers called ‘Priest John McPuke’, an adventure game which according to the developer, delivers a vast world, a multitude of different locations, a throng of items to use and an interesting story. The game was released last Christmas in Polish, and now the English version made its…
The Digital Antiquarian, Jimmy Maher, has been converting old blog posts to eBook format, making it easier to everyone to have a pleasant off-line reading session about the history of video game and computer entertainment as a whole. Jimmy Maher is well-known for many projects, including The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga. He has The Digital Antiquarian blog where he keeps…
Even with all emulation available, including the awesome in-browser one provided by the Internet Archive, there are people that would love to have some classic games in their Steam game list. For those who believe are in that category, know that Atari will release 100 classic games on Steam, part of its Atari Vault. With that package, you will be able…
(This article is written by Jim Gerrie on his blog entitled “January 2016 Retrochallenge 8: New 10-Liner Puzzle Game ‘Dash’” and reproduced here with permission) Dave Maunder (Bushy555), a member of the Yahoo MC-10 group and an avid user of the VZ200/300 posted that there is an up-coming 10-Liner Basic game programming contest being hosted by the Retrocomputing site Homputerium and posted…
It seems PCMag has gotten the retro bug! Today, the website has published another article/slideshow related to retro computers. The pearl of the day is Atari and its line of home computers, from the gorgeous Atari 400 to the “Fisher-Pricy” looking XE Game System. The short article and the seven slides show a brief overview of the line of computers…
In 2014, Bitmap Books launched a campaign for the first book, Commodore 64: a visual Compendium. After its astonishing success, a new edition was planned and a Kickstarter campaign launched four days ago. Today, the campaign is already 100% funded. Actually it has passed the first target by 50% already. This can only be explained by the excellent quality of…
Skool Daze is finally complete and freely available. Skool Daze is a computer game released by Microsphere in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 computers. It was written by David and Helen Reidy, with graphics designed by Keith Warrington. The game was commercially and critically successful, and praised for its original concept. It has since been regarded as…
