l’Abbaye des Morts 64, our verdict and insights from Antonio Savona

Double Sided Games are pleased to announce that they have successfully released their debut title, l’Abbaye des Morts 64. Previously released for a multitude of platforms, l’Abbaye des Morts is a Commodore 64 port of a flick screen platform game, with some puzzle elements, set out in the medieval period.  You play the role of Jean Raymond, a Cathar monk…

Developer Spotlight – Antonio Savona (P0 Snake, Planet Golf 64, l’Abbaye des Morts 64)

As a teenager, Antonio Savona long had aspirations of creating the next smash hit for his favourite home computer system, the Commodore 64. Teaching himself the ins and outs of assembling language, Antonio became somewhat proficient at coding for the Commodore before realising that he just didn’t have focus required to finish off his projects and postponed his dreams…for 25…

Retro Revisited: Gods

We look back at the mythology-themed platform game by The Bitmap Brothers!

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 64: Robocop

Can AMIGArama and Robocop outsmart a bullet in the seedy underbelly of Detroit in this futuristic action adventure?

Virtual ][ – Apple II emulator for MacOS version 9.0 has been released

Virtual ][ is a fully-featured Apple II emulator for MacOS. In my opinion the best one available as you can read here. Today, Gerard Putter announced the immediate availability of the version 9.0, bringing the following changes: Introduction of the “peripherals” side bar, combining the contents of the device and performance drawers. Due to Apple deprecating the drawers feature in…

Review: Wolfling, C64 Edition

We take a look at Lazycow’s official Wolfling conversion for the C64

Frogs Makes Its Way To Atari ST With Boxed Edition, Interview with Thomas Ilg

Anarcho Ride Laboratories is very proud to announce that their Atari ST port of the Commodore 64 multi-player game, Frogs, is now available in physical boxed editions. Frogs was initially released for the Commodore 64 in 2017 by Dr Wuro Industries and was lauded for being a fun multiplayer game that took advantage of 4 player adapter technology to produce…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 63: Golden Axe

AMIGArama sets off on an epic high fantasy adventure to defeat the evil Death Adder but can Lorfarius find the legendary Golden Axe to help along the way?

The WUDSN IDE version 1.7.0 has been released. New power for 6502-based development.

WUDSN IDE is a free integrated Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, C64 and NES development plugin for Eclipse and a new version has just been made available for the public. The version 1.7.0 brings the following changes: Daily build – Advanced users have now the option to install the daily build with the greatest and latest in…

Rejoice, Mac Users, the Atari800MacX sound is back!

This last holiday season was great on the MacOS Atari emulation side of things, in many fronts. If you are not aware, since MacOS Sierra release, some core functions used by the Atari800MacX emulator were deprecated and the consequence of that was that the emulator had no sound anymore, and also the full screen was broken. The only workaround for…