The December 2022 issue of PC Magazine will be its last one. Carol Mangis, manager of the magazine’s digital edition, announced the news in her “First Word” column. The magazine started its life in 1982, founded by David Bunnell, Jim Edlin, and Cheryl Woodard. By the end of 1983, the monthly issue had nothing less than 800 pages! At the…
Hyperdrive is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up game for the Amstrad CPC with 64K of RAM or more and the GX4000. The game offers classic shoot’em up action with a smooth one-pixel scroll at 25 frames per second, not often experienced on the Amstrad CPC. Hyperdrive implements the power-up system seen in Uchūsen Gamma (MSX, 2019; by the same author)….
Once again, Logiker comes up with something simple and fun for the retro computing community. This time around, you’ve been challenged to create a program in any language or platform to display the image above – the Christmas Star! Rules are simple regarding your “reproduction”: It should have exactly the same shape The final picture must not include characters other…
The article below, written by Andrea Contato exclusively for Vintage is The New Old is an exciting view of the people that, even without realizing it, built the video game industry as we know it today. Andrea is an Italian writer that has already published “Through the Moongate. The Story of Richard Garriott, Origin Systems Inc. and Ultima” and the…
Previously, I shared my discovery that the new ChatGPT artificial intelligence program had some understanding of programming languages such as C, BASIC and even COBOL. In the days since that discovery, I have continued to experiment with this technology and have found it to be quite useful. It has already helped me with my day job. It was able to…
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…
