Stefan Vogt (@8bit_era on Twitter) has two text-adventure games (with nice graphics!) available for a while for the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. The games are Hibernated 1 and Eight Feet Under (an add-on for the former). If all that wasn’t enough, Stefan has announced yesterday that he ported the game for yet another…
The development team behind the Mega65 are looking to raise €66,000 for steel moulds that will allow for the production of the machine at more reasonable prices. The Mega65 is slated to be an open sourced FPGA based 8-bit computer with Commodore 64 and Commodore 65 compatibility. It is claimed that the machine will run at 50 times the speed…
Bruce Lee is a video game designed by Ron J. Fortier, with graphics by Kelly Day and music by John A. Fitzpatrick. Originally developed for the Atari 8-bit, the game was published in 1984 by Datasoft, along with ports for the Apple II, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Bruce Lee RX by Allan Turvey is a graphical update…
The Atariage user “Philsan” has announced a new game for the Atari 8-bit: Monty on the Run! The game consists of a conversion from the 16Kb version released for the Commodore Plus/4 by Gremlin Graphics in 1986. Based on the screenshots, the people behind the conversion did an incredible job with the graphics. Hopefully, the gameplay is as fun as…
The Internet Archive keeps updating its game collection very often with small additions on many of the “retro” platforms but this time they exceeded our expectations releasing 2,500 MS-DOS games at once “ranging from tiny recent independent productions to long-forgotten big-name releases from decades ago“, as stated in the announcement post. They also warn that not all games are performing…
Sarah Jane Avory is one of the most respected developers within the current C64 gaming scene. With a long history of game development that has seen her work on unreleased C64 titles in the 1980s before moving on to be involved with many successful titles (and some not so) across the Amiga, Atari ST, Sega Mega CD, Atari Jaguar and…
By reading this, most likely you have a thing for vintage computing and gaming, as well as being the owner of either a small or big collection of vintage technology. But have you ever thought of why do you still keep that Gameboy in your drawer since your childhood? Why do you miss your little Speccy and can’t forgive yourself…
Psytronik Software is proud to present Icebox Plus, a C64 game by Karl Hörnell, who produced C64 classics like Clean Up Service, Fungus and Velocipede. Iceblox Plus is a Pengo style game that sees you control Pixel Pete with the aim to collect gold coins trapped in ice. You can push ice blocks around to snuff out the fire monsters…
Bitmap Soft is looking to be the next ‘big player’ in the software publishing space for vintage home computers with the launch of two cassette format debut titles – All Hallows (ZX Specrum) and Chronicles of Nanako (Amstrad CPC). Established earlier this year by Darren Doyle and Jamie Battison, Bitmap Soft will be specialising as a software house publishing new…
Andy Green recently announced a top-down maze shooter called Mage Rage, which will be coming to the ZX Spectrum. Developed by John Davies and Andy using AGDx Mini, you take control of Mercure the Mage, exploring a ravenous beasts evil lair, full of spiders, bats, rats, goblins and trolls. You must recover “Magical Swirls” which were stolen from the stone…
