Category: Retro Gaming
We announced a while ago that Bitnamic Software has recently (re)released a ZX-81 game called Treasure Quest (with the original title “Em busca dos tesouros” em Portuguese which would translate to “In the search of the treasures”). The game was developed by Tadeu Curinga da Silva when he was 16 years old. The new version is an update from the…
Joe Blob is a small game created by Ronan McEvoy in 1989 that was never officially released until now. Felipe Veiga, Pedro Pimenta, Mario Viegas, and Andre Leao, all members of the Espectroteam and also Planeta Sinclair website got together and with the help of Andy Green, have created a remastered version of Joe Blob to be included in Woot!…
It’s nearly Christmas, so we thought what better way to celebrate the end of 2019 than with a cool competition! Yes that right, we are holding a competition with Future was 8bit to win a C64 SD2IEC and a Fast cart! The competition is being held on our second Twitter account @CommodoreBlog. To grab a chance of winning, please read…
The Mega65 (a C64/C65 compatible computer) team has announced on its website a new version of the DevKit, which is a version of the Mega65 aimed for developers to create programs for the machine and make them ready for when the final product is released. The board was lowered to leave more room for cables and programmers which required for…
That’s not the first time Fusion Retro Books does a promotion like that, but it is always welcome to see good books for free or very cheap. Some of their “In Pixels” books are free, including C-64 In Pixels and The Story of the ZX Spectrum In Pixels Volume 1. The next two volumes of the Speccy series are only…
It was released a few weeks ago a new episode of the Apple Time Warp podcast, a show hosted by John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom… you know him) and Craig Johnston. The podcast has a sparse schedule, with only eight episodes published in the last 6 years. This year, however, they managed to release two episodes, and with very prominent…
Birgit “Bigi” Lechtermann is a German TV moderator, book writer and media trainer which talks in this interview about pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows “Computer Corner” & “Technik-2000″ which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more…
The 4 Masters of Melody, the first game created by the Clube MSX magazine, is getting a well-deserved cartridge release. The launch will happen on December 7 and 8, at the MSX SP 2019, an event for MSX enthusiasts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The boxed version of the game brings small graphic enhancements, a printed manual (Portuguese and English) all…
I’ve been dedicating some of my time learning about Atari 8-bit programming mostly through old Atari books you can find all over the Internet and they are a very good source of information for sure! However, it is nice to see that there are some modern efforts to keep the subject fresh and up to date. One of the most…
R-Type was published in 1988 by Electric Dreams Software for the ZX Spectrum 48k, and they made an excellent job with it. However, due to the hardware and memory limitations, the game was released without music, which was a big part of its frantic gameplay. This weekend, a new mod for the classic game was released trying to close the…
