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With all the buzz about Windows 10, its awesomeness and its problems you may be thinking to change to another OS. To help you with that task comes the Internet Archive! Today the non-profit organization has released almost a thousand Windows 3.1 programs that can run directly on your browser. The new collection includes games, utilities and business software – the jewel of the…
Juha-Pekka Jokela has created this game for the Global Game Jam that happened last weekend (Jan 29-31). It is a simple action game for Commodore 64 where you take a role of a priest, trying to survive in a haunted house by performing rituals to stop haunting. To play, move priest around with the joystick. Whenever there’s ghost around you, find…
Ok, this is another Kickstarted campaign, but we have to admit and understand that Retro-gaming in general is not very profitable and these awesome developers out there need some help! This time we are talking about a campaign that will interest mostly the Colecovision fans: Super Arcade Controllers and Adapters for Colecovision! The nice thing about the project is that the…
Back in 2013 a Kickstarter campaign was launched with the objective to create a new game for Sega Dreamcast and Amiga. The campaign failed but the developers behind the project didn’t give up and they finally launched their product, at least the version for the Sega Dreamcast. From the Kickstarter page, we get the game’s description: Leona’s Tricky Adventures is…
I really enjoy to watch It’s a Pixel Thing! with its light approach and full of interesting information while keeping a comfortable 10 minutes duration. This new episode the show will tell you the amazing story of British developer Imagine Software, its ascent to the stars and spectacular demise! [youtube 6KR0ZnylfLk nolink] Link: It’s a Pixel Thing Youtube Channel
Although it is the only Apple II podcast around, it deserves the “best” title. Open Apple brings every month a nice balance of technical, geek and normal retro computing discussions regarding the Apple II. This month’s episode, number 55, brings Henry Courbis, co-proprietor of Ultimate Micro, serial entrepreneur, and Open Source guy. Henry is boldly going where no hobbyist has gone before, by…
The 2015 Sideways SEUCK compo came to an end. Although counting only with three contestants, the competition was fierce due to the high quality of all three games. With 79 votes the winner is PAN!, followed by U-91306 Eidothea with 76 votes. The third place, grabbing 72 votes, was Edge of Time. I shot three short videos of the gameplay of all…
Sprite Castle Episode 21 is out, this week featuring “Gremlins”. Published by Atarisoft, Gremlins is an action game based on the Steven Spielberg movie. If you really want to know more about the game (if you haven’t played), listen to the podcast and access its website for more material about it. Link: Sprite Castle
The Spanish government uses a computer with some handlers connected to asses the future driver hand-eye coordination. In some of the locations that apply the test, there are still MSX computers in operation. Lavandeira.net has published some photos taken on Nov 6th of such equipment: a Mitsubishi ML-G1. That is the second time this type of news comes out. The first…
Speccy Jam is a regular world wide 1 week game jam, where indie game developers come together to create games with the flavour of the legendary 8-bit personal home computer, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The next edition will run from Aug 29th to Sep 5th, and this year it is bringing a stellar group of ZX Spectrum gamedev veterans which…
