Flimbo’s Quest is a 2D platform game published by British publishing house System 3 (later renamed to Studio 3 Interactive) for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST and Amstrad CPC. A ZX Spectrum version was produced but never released. The game itself was developed by Laurens van der Donk in the Netherlands who was involved in the DemoScene being in…
Montezuma’s Revenge is a 1984 platform game for the Atari 8-bit family, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC and ZX Spectrum (as Panama Joe). Back in the day Zdenda ZZubr always dreamt of programming his own version of Montezuma. Many years later, now in his 50’s, Zdenda has finally made his own dreams come true….
Virgil’s Purgatory ZX is a metroidvania exploration action platformer. The game is available for ZX Spectrum or MSX, .tap and .rom formats. You can run these files on any good emulator or better still, real hardware. Virgíl’s Purgatory has been updated to version 2.0 on the ZX Spectrum. Lot’s of new changes in place, much more than just bug fixes,…
Mark your calendars for September 29 – October 1, 2023, and get ready to relive the glory days of Tandy computers at Tandy Assembly 2023. Springfield, Ohio – Retro Tandy computing enthusiasts, mark your calendars and start dusting off your gear because Tandy Assembly 2023 is just around the corner! From September 29 to October 1, 2023, Springfield, Ohio will…
The evil Doctor Jose Antonio Malvado is trying to turn all the citizens of WeepingTown into mutants! Help Batmanolo stop him! Your suit is ruined but you can recover it for a little while and be more resistant, jump higher and throw your weapon to discover hidden rooms or paralyze enemies. Gather all the mutagen that’s spread all around WeepingTown,…
To celebrate the return of Vintage is the New Old, our friend of the program and creator of the VITNO is Back logo, Daniel Henderson, has created a free Apple II game for the readers of the site. Oubliette 4 – Sir Edward Goes Forth is a puzzle game involving keys and gates and you must help Sir Edward get…
Hello have we met before? I seem to be back on Vintage is the New Old! This all feels a little surreal. I can’t believe it’s been nearly six years? Oh how time flies by… Most of you will know me as CommodoreBlog from Twitter. I also run commodoreblog.uk, another website that has recently returned from the dead! Anyway enough…
For those of you who were as shocked as this author about the shuttering of the Vintage is the New OId website, you will be happy to know that there are a number of people who came together to keep the site alive into at least the immediate future. We must thank those who had a hand in bringing this…
The first edition of ViTNO Writer’s contest ended on June 30. We got to a verdict after some discussions with our judges, Randy Kindig (Floppy Days Podcast) and Kitty (@CommodoreBlog). All four entries were for the non-technical category and were about something that left a good memory for the writers, which was very nice since, depending on your past experience…
Clube MSX is starting this Monday (07/03) the pre-sale of My Sacred Place and The 4 Masters of Melody Ex in cartridge for MSX. Each game comes with a box, manual and gifts and can now be purchased in the Clube MSX virtual store for R$ 179.00 (promotional price for each game) plus shipping costs (international orders must be made…
