One of the games available in the New Year Disc 2020 released by Ralf “PPs” Patschke is Runner Bear, an infinite runner game for the Atari XL/XE with at least 48K of RAM. Developed by Paul “Playsoft” Lay, Darryl Guenther y Rob Schlort, Runner Bear presents colourful Mario-like graphics with a very well designed parallax scrolling effect, giving depth to…
Given away on the cover of 64’er magazine, Fred’s Back is a professionally created platformer for the C64!
Although it is not unseen to have games developed in a short period of time, it is easy to make a really good game in less than one week. One game that falls in that category is Yazzie, developed by Denis Grachev for the competition Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019, which happened at the beginning of last month. Yazzie is…
The already traditional New Year Disc compilation just released its 14th edition, containing a plethora of good for the Atari 8-bit enthusiast. In the 6-disk compilation made by Ralf “PPs” Patschke you will find two games and several graphics and intros. The compilation contains works by Filippo “Philsan” Santellocco, Michal “Miker” Szpilowski, Mario “eMKay” Krix, Pawel “Sikor” Sikorski, Steve ”…
Retro gamers looking to add something to their collection of gaming memorabilia should definitely take notice of Royal Mail’s latest collection of special issue stamps. The new collection – available from January 21st – features some of the most iconic video games from UK history, including Lemmings, Sensible Soccer and Populous. The stamps are available in a presentation pack (£14.25),…
Released in 1996 as a sequel to the equally impressive Tower of Doom, Shadows Over Mystara is a surprisngly in-depth fusion of side-scrolling beat ’em up and action RPG set within the D&D universe. I still can’t imagine people standing/sitting at an arcade cabinet for 90 minutes, but it’s a thoroughly compelling experience, particularly when played with friends! Players must…
It’s been roughly four months since our last update on Bomb Jack DX, a Bomb Jack Arcade fan remake for the Commodore 64. We are all still waiting patiently for a final release. Retrofan has shared News on Beta 7, which shows us various new improvements and some other lovely additions, including: Complete new (more aggressive) AI for flying saucer…
One of the most common requested features missing from THEC64 and THEC64 Mini is the ability to add your own games to the carousel without having to mod the unit. Well, thanks to the Megastyle team (Mancave, Exploding Fish, Bruce Lee: Return of Fury) this will soon be possible. Rotteroy from Megastyle has announced via his Twitter feed: We have…
Gabriele Gorla from GGLabs has released a new terminal application for the Commodore 64. GGLabs Terminal v0.18 emulates a VT100 terminal displaying 80 columns on a Commodore 64. It requires a UART cartridge with the 6551 chip, like GGLab’s own GLINK232T and the GLINK232 UART cartridges. Besides their own cartridges, there are many variants, most of them are clones of…
If you have in your New Year’s resolution list to finally learn assembler for the Atari but you have no idea from where to start, you are lucky! Atari Projects website has published a new quick tutorial where it teaches how to compile and run a small program written in 6502 Assembly for the Atari 8-bit computers. Written by Jason…
