AMIGArama joins the fight against the evil Drax to save the helpless Princess Mariana but who can win in this epic bout of fighting fantasy? https://amigarama.com/episodes/amigarama-podcast-episode-69-barbarian-the-ultimate-warrior/
Bruce Lee for the Commodore 64 has long been considered as a classic must have game for the system, receiving critical acclaim upon its initial release in 1984 for its addictive and thoroughly enjoyable platform fighting action while many enthusiasts since have often cited the game as being one of their personal favourite games for the C64. Vidar Bang, who…
We look back at Sega’s revolutionary sprite scaling technology, and some of the games that used it!
NESmaker is a recently launched tool allowing you to create NES games without programming experience. The games created with NESmaker can be flashed in cartridges and played in an original NES console. To celebrate the new home brewers using the tool, the The New 8-bit Heroes have launched Byte-off!, a game designed competition. To enter the compo, the contestant has…
Can Lorfarius resist those midnight shenanigans in this weeks look at Oceans Midnight Resistance? http:// https://amigarama.com/episodes/amigarama-podcast-episode-68-midnight-resistance/
The sad news has reached us that games industry veteran Steve Bak has passed away at the age of 66 following complications from diabetes. The news was broken by Steve’s son Philip in a tweet that revealed that his father’s condition had worsened in recent years, before finally passing away on February 6th, 2019. A programmer and game designer who…
2018 was a banner year for commercial C64 releases, none more surprising — or more well-received — than GIANTS Software’s hit game Farming Simulator. AJ and Joerg talk to GIANTS’ Martin Rabl about how the C64 port came to be and why retrogaming is such a big part of gaming culture. The interview starts 12 minutes into the podcast. Listen…
Psytronik Software is pleased to announce that they have secured the publishing rights to Megastyle’s next Commodore 64 release, Mancave. Mancave tells the tale of Richard, who comes home one evening to find that his two bratty kids have snuck into his mancave and turned the whole room inside out. During the course of their invasion the kids have uncovered…
John Linville posted on RetroChallenge website an early call for potential participants of the upcoming Retro Challenge that will officially start next March. The basic rule of the contest is “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for a month”. It is the ultimate remedy for all of us, procrastinators! John asks for the participants to…
Apple II emulators for Windows and MacOS received small updates that might interest you. Virtual ][, our favorite Apple II emulator for MacOS, new version 9.1.1 brings small fixes found in version 9.1. In macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) the Apple II screen was shown all black or sometimes semi-transparent. This has been fixed. Fixed a crash that occurred if the…
