Category: Retro Computing History
Rich Stanton wrote a blog about the making of Lemmings. The story is about David Jones who lost his job at the Timex company in 1988. David bought an Amiga 1000, and started making games. Later he created DMA Design and the legendary game Lemmings. Let’s Go! http://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-lemmings/
Commodore News!, Hot off the press!!BozRetro resident DJ on Wednesday’s SLAYRadio Show BBB, had an interview only an hour ago, on his Live Show with none other than the great Chris Huelsbeck! Chris Huelsbeck was born 1968 in Kassel, Germany. He found himself dedicated to music at a very young age and started some piano lessons. At 14 he got…
Dwayne Johnson will be the hero of Rampage, based on the arcade created by Midway in the 80’s. The production will start only in summer 2016, and the plot is still under wraps, but if you remember the game or watch the video below, it you will know that there is a giant gorilla, giant lizard and a giant wolf…
Nick Lee (@nickplee on Twitter) has squeezed the Mini vMac Emulator on the Apple Watch. The video below shows the feat, where you can see OS 7 booting and running on the tiny Apple Watch screen. [youtube R1xJxS_kr-M nolink] It is noticeable that it runs slow, and probably there is no real use for that, however it is a incredible…
Chris Huelsbeck attends live tomorrow at the Frankfurt Film Museum at 6 PM GMT! Free Entrance! It’s also streamed live via Twitch! He is being interviewed by Nafcom of Scene World Magazine. More Info about this on the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1594807314140760/ And the Olymptronica Twitch page here: http://www.twitch.tv/olymptronica
The documentary ‘Viva Amiga’ was crowdfunded back in 2011 and it’s been in production since then. If you are, like us, looking forward to watch it, here is a great opportunity to be one of the first to enjoy it. The Viva Amiga Team and the organizers of the US Amiga 30th anniversary event are pleased to announce the world’s…
News Updates from Vintage is the New Old.Robert Joy from Ram Retro Arcade Memories has sent over his latest batch of Arcade reviews for Vitno. Some classics there for you all to enjoy! You can read the reviews below on our Reviews Page, as well as many other ones by Rob, Stuart Johns and C64Glen. Pac-Land (Arcade) Paperboy (Arcade) North…
The guys over at C64.com have interviewed Mevlut Dinc. Mevlut is a game designer and has coded games on various systems such as the Commodore 64, Spectrum and Amstrad computers. The games he worked on are: Gerry the Germ, Prodigy, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Ninja 2, Time Machine, First Samurai and the development system for the C64GS….
[youtube rushX-wtDig nolink] The Centre for Computer History in Cambridge – UK has announced that the next Retro Gaming Night is happening on June 26th, from 7pm to Midnight. Besides the obvious retro-gaming-jam, the event also allow you to bring that extra retro game or hardware to swap or sell during the event. The space is limited and you can…
It is now open and accepting new order the online store UltimateApple2.com. The store offers hardware and software products for your Apple II, IIc and IIGS. Henry S Courbis also added on the Facebook group Apple II Enthusiasts, that the forum is also open “for project support, discussions, documents, and software. It’s still a work in progress, and new things…
