The Only Sprites Compo hosted by CSDb came to an end and announced the winners. Because the compo had received demos and games competing, it was decided to separate them into two categories. In the Demos category, the winner is Oldschool Sprite Demo by Bonzai, which had tough competition against the other 26 demos. The best game category had only…
Once again, ZeroPage Homebrew, AtariAge, Mark/Space | Argon and The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion are organizing the Annual Atari Homebrew Awards. The 3rd edition is waiting for your vote for your favourite homebrew games of 2020. As listed in this previous post, the homebrew production for the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, and Atari 8bit/5200 is huge, showing that the game…
Just a couple of weeks after the release of version 5.5.0, Atari800MacX 6.0.0 is out with not many functional changes, but with an important update that will ensure the emulator will stay work on macOS for many years to come. The emulator app bundle now includes both binaries for Intel and Apple ARM CPU. The OS will choose the right…
Rainbow Edge Run DX is an extended full version of the Rainbow Edge Run 4k game that was submitted to the 2020 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition. At the time, the game didn’t win, getting only 11th place, but that is only a testament that the competition is really tough. Rainbow Edge Run is a fun infinite runner where your character follows the…
I like to think Vintage is the New Old foments the retro computing community integration, and more than once, we have been promoting different websites and projects around the internet. It is with pleasure that I see one of the most traditional ones getting even better! Lemon Amiga website has been around for many years, and it is one of…
After almost two years from its launch, Quadron for the ZX Spectrum by Andy “Cosmium” Beale finally got its deserved physical release. Published by Cronosoft, Quadron DeLuxe features a double jewel case containing both a special edition sparkly cassette and mini CD-ROM featuring the same, most recent version of the game and the following extras: TAP emulator file of the latest version…
Retro Gamer Nation is pleased to announced that Zeta Wing by Sarah Jane Avory has been declared the most popular C64 new release game for 2020. Over 370 gamers participated in the public voting event whereby C64 gamers where able to select up to 5 of their favourite nominated games for 2020. Zeta Wing took out the award with 144…
ZeroPage Homebrew is seriously dedicated to following the Atari 2600 homebrew scene. Thanks to his hard work, we have a complete list of all the Atari 2600 homebrew games that have either been completed in 2020 or have released an updated WIP in 2020 (good to track down games in development that are not staled/abandoned). The list below was originally…
Atari800MacX gets another important update, this time adding support to another host system, but the main feature, in my opinion, is the enhanced copy and paste feature. In this new version, you can copy/paste regular text and ATASCII graphics characters as well as any key combination you can perform on a real Atari. In addition to that, you can add…
Another traditional game development competition has started, and it is ready to receive submissions. Hosted by Richard Bayliss’ The New Dimension (TND), the compo has bought many cool games for the C64 over the years, and with some clever tricks, the results go beyond the basic Shoot’em Up nature of the tool! The competition is already going, and the deadline…
