Category: Retro Gaming
It is almost one year since we posted about an upcoming R-Type game for the Atari STE. We are a bit late to tell you that the game was released last Christmas, but since it is never too late to have good news, here it is! The game can now be downloaded for free from Atari-Forum .com, and it was…
KansasFest 2016, the 28th annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 19 – 24 in Kansas City, Missouri. This edition will have a very important presence, Mike Harvey, founder and publisher of Nibble magazine, the “Magazine for Apple II Enthusiasts”. Nibble was published between 1980 and 1992. KansasFest is an annual convention offering Apple II users and retrocomputing enthusiasts…
Before browser-based games, before the Internet, there was darkness….oops, I mean BBS Door games. PCMag has published today a featured article talking about this way people used to play games online at the time online meant BBS (Bulletin Board Systems). “Once connected to these mostly hobby-run services, users could bring up a list of games to play. These early online games…
Usually retro computer enthusiasts have a “thing” for pixelated graphics. This is so true that you can see the myriad of modern games mimicking 8 or 16 bits graphics being released all the time. I have to confess that I am one of those, but I sometimes go further and graphics like the TRS-80 and ZX81 just makes me happy….
When 2015 was coming to an end, somewhere in the MSX Resource Center headquarters the whole website saw its whole life flashes before its eyes when the server two hard disks decided to crash at the same time. We all, retro computing enthusiasts were breathless with the possibility of losing invaluable content related to MSX. The most important MSX site stayed…
ADTWin is a free tool for writing Amiga disks from a PC. It requires a Windows PC with a parallel port and a floppy disk drive that is connected to the PC’s parallel port by a self-made cable. The disk content has to be provided in form of an Amiga Disk File. Only the original double-density Amiga disk format (for 880kB disks) is…
Atari is well served by different languages allowing people to create amazing games for the platform, with Action being one of the most notorious for game development. However, for a lot of gamers that have ambition to create their own retro games, learning programming language is something hard to grasp. To fill this void, Vladimir “Popmilo” Jankovic has been developing…
On Time Warp podcast, John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake) and Craig Johnston talk about the early days of games on the Apple ][, interview Apple ][ game programmers, and generally cover topics relating to Apple ][ games and history. On this episode they talk to Chuck Sommerville, creator of Apple ][ games including Snake Byte, California Games, and…
Following the news about the Amiga source code leak, Hyperion, the company that has exclusive and worldwide rights to distribute and use Amiga OS published an official statement as follows: Press release: Brussels, January 5, 2016 – Hyperion Entertainment wishes a happy New Year 2016 everybody! The days between last Christmas and New Year were actually clouded by the sad…
It’s a Pixel Thing had many good shows throughout the year. The host, Pedro Loureiro has prepared a special show with the best of 2015. It is 15 minutes with the best of the best he put together during 2015. Enjoy! [youtube 51kfRj0bkyY nolink] Link: YouTube
