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…
AMIGArama goes on a arcade hunt for a Bubble Bobble beater but can Qwak finally be the game to put that quest to an end? Lorfarius sets out on his weekly Amiga gaming trip to find out! https://amigarama.com/episodes/amigarama-podcast-episode-67-qwak/
Ricardo Saraiva has announced today a 1-week special sale of the very desirable MISTer FPGA board IO5.5 Blue Board Edition (the latest version). He has made available 50 units of the board, fully assembled with the fan included for only 34,90€, down from the regular price of 45,00€. Some details taken from the MISTer Facebook Group: – This sale ends…
Looks like January is emulator update season as we see so many releases, and probably still more to come. This time around WebMSX 5.1 has been released. WebMSX is a *really* good MSX emulator written in Javascript that runs directly in your browser and works as good as any desktop-based option around. This are the changes: OPL4 Wave Sound (no…
