One of the most expected and respected contests in the retro computing community is turning 10 years old and ready to roll! The Tenth Edition of the BASIC 10-Liner has started and already waiting for your submission. This edition’s rules are pretty much the same as last year’s. BASIC games can be written for all 8-bit computers, as long they…
Crackpots, a game originally released for the Atari 2600 in 1983, has been ported for the Commodore 64 by Antonio Savona, with graphics by STE’86 and music by Saul Cross. Very similar to Kaboom!, in the game, you control Potsy, a gardener. Your task is to throw potted petunias at the bugs that are crawling up the building to devour…
The Antic magazine started offering the disk/magazine option only from issue #10. The disks featured all the current issue listings, saving the readers many hours in front of the computer typing and debugging the programs. With the newsstands price of $9.95, it was an expensive option but worthwhile for those lucky people that could afford to buy them. Luckily for…
With a myriad of Kickstarter campaigns, ones successful, others not so much, the retro computer enthusiasts grew weary of them and are thinking twice to back new projects. This is unfortunate because KS is a legitimate way to fund a project that otherwise would never see the light of the day. Being one of these projects, the Museum of Electronic…
Synergistic Software’s 1990 SHMUP, NY Warriors, is set in 2005, or 2014 dependent on whether you read the US or European instruction manual. Terrorists known as the Church of the Third Coming, or the catchy C3C for short, have planted a nuclear device in the now ill-fated World Trade Centre. As per most action genre titles, only one man, well…
Jan Derogee one day discovered that resistive touch panels (meant to be used in combination with LCD screens of the same size) were relatively easy to buy and fairly cheap. He then started to imagine how it would be like to use such a touch panel for controlling his PC and (most importantly! ) C64, instead of a regular mouse. The idea to…
Early this week we talked about the 2nd Annual Atari Homebrew Awards, including Atari 2600 categories but now also Atari 7800 and Atari 8-Bit/5200. As of today and through Jan 28th, you can cast your votes for your favourite game of 2019 on Atariage, following the link below. In the same thread, you can find links to download the games….
Who Dares Wins for MSX2, a remake of the ’86 game Who Dares Wins 2 by Alligata, was launched in 2017 as a physical copy. If you haven’t had the chance to purchase or simply don’t have a real machine, you can now download the game for free. Retroforce has announced the great news at the 56th Barcelona MSX meeting, which…
If you hang out on the ZX Next Facebook group, it is relatively common to see people asking how to buy it if you are not a backer of the first campaign, which points to an increasing interest in the machine we learn to love to wait (!) It looks like there is still hope for those that missed the…
Welle:Erdball has been making music for almost 30 years, and the Commodore 64 has been an integral part of their unique sound since the beginning. Joerg and AJ talk to W:E members Honey and MissMoonlight about their musical process, what it means to them to be able to create art at this level, and the importance that the C64 plays…
