NesDev Compo is a game development competition that has been a staple of the NES Homebrew community for over 10 years. The 2022 edition just ended, and the winners have been announced – which means you have a lot of new games to play! Michael Sharpe, member of the Team Disposable, who participated in the compo with the game “They…
In our new podcast episode we are talking with Giulia Valentini and Fabrizio Rizzi from Smallthing Studios who are developing a brand new Simon The Sorcerer game! Enjoy and watch out for Simon The Sorcerer Origins! It’s an official prequel to the original Simon the Sorcerer game and transports players back to a few weeks before the events of the…
The APDA Software Library, with dozens of Apple II programs from the Apple Programmers and Developers Association, is now available from Juiced.GS.
OpenAI is the entity behind the trendy DALL-E art generator that creates images using artificial intelligence. That’s the thing that’s been creating nightmare fuel images like this one of “a robot using a 1980s home computer inside a Radio Shack.” Recently, they opened up their ChatGPT chat bot and the world may never be the same. When I first tested…
PETSCII Compositor is a Windows tool that helps create PETSCII art based on existing graphics. A few days ago, the creator, MultiStyle Labs, released a new version, 1.10. The program aims to allow any user to can grab any image, load it to the program and, with a couple of clicks, see thatimage turned into PETSCII graphics. What caught my…
This Week In FujiNet – 46 and Holiday Week 47 Posted on November 27, 2022 by Atari Orbit This Week In FujiNet is being released the weekend after Thanksgiving. It’s covering Week 46 and Week 47. With Thanksgiving taking up a big chunk of 47 you would think things would have slowed down, ha, apparently the holidays have motivated quite a few people…
The NES game scene is one of the most active around the retro community. I think here on ViTNO we don’t talk enough about it, and we should try to do better since it is not only interesting from a retro gamer perspective but also the development aspect of it. Every year, the NES community has a game development competition…
This is a catch-up edition covering a whopping 4 weeks of FujiNet progress across most of October and the start of November 2022.
Hokuto Force has released an enhanced version of Dig Dug, one of my favourite games for the C64 (I’ve played a lot on the arcades back in the day, to be honest!). In addition to the NTSC speed option, the team took the time to fix some bugs in the original game and focus on features that would be appreciated…
It’s never too late to do cool stuff in the retro computing world. This time around, the Atari 8-bit computers get a new port of the GEOS, a graphic interface environment created for the Commodore (64, 128, and Plus/4) and Apple II by Berkeley Softworks. GEOS was interesting at the time because it delivered a powerful environment while having extremely…
