Category: Retro Gaming
Revenge! is a magazine in PDF devoted to games and vintage hardware as well as emulation of various systems. Some of the featured articles and reviews this month: Megaman Hysteria Reviews Wings of Fury Trivial Pursuit Console Forever Download: Rev’n’GE
Imagine Google Streets inside a museum. This is exactly what this virtual tour is at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, WA. Made by Tosolini Productions, the virtual tour really takes you to any place inside the museum. You can walk, look around, check the computers, etc. The only thing better than this would be to visit the museum in…
Developed for the Polish “RetroKomp GameDev Compo”, “Tanks Furry” is a tank shooter game where you have to hit the opponent’s tanks before they destroy your base. The game is still incomplete (version 0.3a) so there is still a lot to be improved and fixed, but the preview is playable. The developer mentions that for now, the game has to be…
The YouTube channel “Nostalgia Nerd” has published a video review about the MSX System & Platform. If you know very little about the MSX platform, it is a good opportunity to learn more about it. It tackles the platform history, going from its origins, different models, hardware overview and games. Probably die-hard MSX fans will find it a little superficial, but…
Game development competitions are always fun to participate if you are a developer, and always fun to follow if you are a gamer looking for modern games for your beloved platform. Earlier this year we saw great games coming out of ABBUC’s Compo for Atari 8-bits and the CPCRetroDev compo that brought to us many more amazing games for the Amstrad…
Few days ago we reported that Saboteur! for Commodore 64 was getting a port for the Atari 8-bit computers. At that time, the released version for Atari had no colors yet. Terence “Tezz” Derby joined the project this week with Mariusz “mariuszw” Wojcieszek to help with the port of the game. He has reported on Atariage about his progress: “Much…
Why didn’t we think of that? Yeah, but Nightfall Crew did. They have posted a list of new games and tools released in 2015 for the Commodore 64, including a download file containing them all. The package doesn’t contain every single release of 2015 but certainly has most of the best ones. The year is not over and more is…
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Jack Nutting (not hosting) Host’s Topic: Internet of Dumb Things Are our 8-bit programming skills going to be relevant again? In this upcoming Internet of Things world, underpowered is back. The IoT and the return of 8-bit computing Retro Computing News: Ken Olsen, DEC documentary (20 minutes) 10 computers time forgot Jupiter Ace emulator (iOS) Gene…
CosmosC64 has published in his YouTube channel nothing less than 10 hours of SID tunes for your delight! “Here are 640 minutes of our most favorite SID tunes from our youth. Painstakingly selected and lovingly arranged into hour-long sectors, these are the legendary melodies that have burned themselves deep into our brains. The Epic Commodore C64 SID Collection aims to…
The web site Plus4world is releasing a great collection of games and demos from the Moldi collection. Among the software Kristalyoszcillatorok, Bard’s Tale III Songs, Bridgehead, Alex’s Catalog 1.0, Space Taxy, Eprom Packer V9.1, Fast-load 1551, Kerek Bar, Évezredek, Microscopy, Miner 410er, Stick Or Twist, Wizard Of Wor, TIT-anic, Chubby Checker, and many more. Link: Plus/4 World
