Precinct 20: Dead Strange, a surreal shooter for C64 coming soon

Alf Yngve has had an illustrious career as a game and graphical designer of Commodore 64 games utilising the Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) platform. Keen to let C64 enthusiasts about his upcoming title, Precinct 20: Dead Strange, Alf reached out to VITNO and provided a copy of the game to try out before its release in sometime around Q2…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 70: Strider

Lorfarius and Hiryu swing through the air in this latest Amiga teamup, but can they defeat the evil Grandmaster in this weeks AMIGArama?

ZX Spectrum Next Keyboard mass production is a go and we have photos to prove!

It is another freezing Canadian morning and there is nothing better to warm us up than good news (and a hot cup of coffee, of course!) As I was drinking that coffee and reading my emails, there was another update from Henrique Olifiers regarding the most-wanted (and waited) retro-computer project in the past few years! The ZX Spectrum Next keyboard…

New Atari LiteDOS 2.02 for the 400/800 XL/XE Machines

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…

Amiga Power: The Album with Attitude coming to Kickstarter!

We chat with Matthew Smith about his exciting Amiga Power magazine-inspired remix album!

Jesse – A modern homage to Eliza (and beyond!)

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…

‘Dungeon Crawl’ – New game for the TRS-80 Color Computer

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 Podcast Episode 69: Barbarian The Ultimate Warrior

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: Return of Fury on its way to the C64

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…

Retro Revisited: Sega Super Scaler Games

We look back at Sega’s revolutionary sprite scaling technology, and some of the games that used it!