The British developer H0ffman, well-known in the Amiga Demoscene, has announced that he is porting the classic Metal Gear for the Commodore Amiga. Konami’s stealth game that spawned many sequels was first released for the MSX in 1987 will work on an Amiga 500 with 512Kb or RAM. The developer is modifying it to run at the full frame rate…
Planeta Sinclar, the Portuguese website dedicated to the ZX Spectrum, and in my opinion, the best one around for the Speccy, has announced the winners of GOTY 2020, the Game of the Year 2020 event that was held online this last Saturday. Other than ranking the best overall games of 2020, the event exalted the best games for different genres…
We can probably agree that it is not really a new year in the retro computing community without the BASIC 10-Liner contest. Well, get the fireworks ready because the 2021 edition of the contest is ready to receive the smallest and smartest BASIC programs one can conceive. Again the rules haven’t changed much since the last edition. BASIC games can…
I have to start this post by confessing that I’ve never played a Castlevania game to the end, and to make it worst, I haven’t played one at all until recently. Since its debut in the Famicom Disk System in 1986, Castlevania has spawned more than 40 titles across many different platforms. The many games and confusing naming make it…
Petmate is an open-source cross-platform C64 PETSCII image editor created by Janne Hellsten (@nurpax) in 2018. Since it is developed using Electron, a framework that allows you to deploy a web application, Petmate is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The current version is 0.8.3 is very usable and full of nice features: Commodore 64 standard character mode graphics with…
Retro music is in right now, but few people have taken it to the lengths that Remute has, releasing his songs not just on vinyl and digital download, but also on cartridge and floppy disk (Amiga, C64, ect!) ! Joerg, Martin, and AJ talk to him about why he chose this medium, and the unique challenges associated with releasing music…
Retrocomputing and retro gaming continue to get noticed by major news outlets. First was the New York Times with the article The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing published on January 8th, and now Wired Magazine, with the article People Still Really Love the Apple II. Wired’s article is a bit more focused on a game that we are all…
Carleton Handley is almost ready to release his new game Runn ‘n’ Gunn for the Commodore 64, a beautiful action platform set to be released on January 29th. Based on the released footage, the game shows action-packed levels and a beautiful dark environment. You play a super soldier made after fusing Willie Runn and Wally Gunn, two average soldiers. They…
Sebastian ‘Candle`o`Sin’ Bartkowicz has, many years ago, developed the Ultimage1MB, one of the best modern upgrades you can buy for your Atari XL/XE. It offers, as you can guess, 1MB of RAM for the Atari 8-bits but it doesn’t stop there. You can have in it multiple operating systems and BASICs available, a real time clock and multiple modes of…
Virtual II, the must-have Apple II emulator for macOS, has been updated. The new version includes many additions and bug fixes. Changelog: Inspector watchpoints can now be defined for a specific memory bank, improving their use for debugging. Added keyboard shortcuts for the main Inspector functions break, resume and single step. It is now possible to see a mounted disk’s…
