Category: Retro Gaming
Our frenemy website, Indie Retro News, has a short post today telling us that Retro Games, the maker of TheC64, has a not-so-encrypted tease on their Facebook page showing a computer silhouette as a new release for 2021. It doesn’t take two seconds to realize the mysterious computer is an Amiga 500! So yes, it looks like 2021 will bring a “THE”…
Jamie Lendino has published his new book, Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games. The book tells the history of the Arcade game industry since the inception of electromechanical machines from the early 20th century until its crash and rebirth.
Strand Games has announced that the illustrated text adventure games The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter from Magnetic Scrolls are now available in a remastered version for the ZX Spectrum Next. To make the news even more interesting, all their source code is on GitLab which means you can download these games for free. Strand Games website explains…
Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program Yes, no sugarcoating! In this third part we will be talking about pointers! Hello?….. Hello? Usually, when people start to learn…
Pedro Planas is a computer game retro composer and a YouTuber from Caracas, Venezuela. Not only he shares his passion for video and computer game music, but also gives us an inside about what is going on regarding the retro scene in his country and why it became harder in the last 11 years for the video game companies to…
Juan J. Martinez is again releasing a great game for free. This time he presents us with Brick Rick, a single platform game inspired by classics like Bubble Bobble. The game has 50 stages where Rick has to clear in less than 60 seconds. You can stun the enemies, so they can’t hurt you and then kick them back to…
Sarah Jane Avory has announced the immediate availability of her new game, Zeta Wing for the Commodore 64. Zeta Wing is a shoot’em up inspired by the arcade game Gemini Wing. Sarah managed to squeeze in a C64 astounding graphics and incredible parallax effects. The game also features: 7 challenging stages, each with their own graphic style. 3 difficulty settings:…
I was pleased when I learned that another printed magazine has been launched. “Atari Fan” is a brand new, printed magazine dedicated to all ATARI computers and consoles. Previously it was only available in the Polish language but now you will be able to buy it in English. The publishers aim to release one issue every 6 months of the…
The Plus/4 was long gone from Commodore’s catalogue when Lemmings was released in 1991 for the Amiga and because they were from different timelines, the C= machine never got an official port of the game. Many of us see today brave developers porting games for platforms that the game was never meant to be in, like Super Mario Bros. for…
We’ve been posting many articles and tutorials about Punyinform, a C64 library that let you create Text Adventure games for the C64 using Infocom’s Z-Machine. In order to play those games on a computer, you need an interpreter and that is where Ozmoo comes about, a Z-machine interpreter for the Commodore 64 written by Johan Berntsson and Fredrik Ramsberg in…
