Mr. Atari has released the version 2.02 of Atari LiteDOS targeting the Atari 8-bit family of computers. Formerly known as TinyDOS, the new version offers a fully-feature DOS for Atari machines using only 2k of RAM, feeing at least 4k for the user. LiteDOS can read Atari DOS 2.0 2.5 MyDOS and other compatible disks. Also, the file-format of a…
We chat with Matthew Smith about his exciting Amiga Power magazine-inspired remix album!
David Taylor has been busy working on Jesse, an interesting project that reminds in Eliza, an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum (Wikipedia). David had contact me send me the following letter about his project, which I reproduce here to help him spread the awareness about…
Paul Shoemaker has released a new game for the TRS-80 Color Computer. ‘Dungeon Crawl’ is an homage to the classic Telengard, a role-playing dungeon crawler created by Daniel Lawrence and published in 1982 by Havalon Hill. The game run in all Color Computer models with equipped with 64Kb or RAM and Extended Color BASIC. It can be purchased as DSK…
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…
