Marvin Hardy recently unveiled an early preview of Hellbound, a new title he is working on for the Commodore 64. Posted in the Commodore 64/128 Facebook group, the preview demonstrates a number of rooms present within the game, including preliminary artwork, game design, as well as some of the mechanics implemented so far. We should point out, however, that the footage revealed…
You may remember a while back we closely covered the ZX-Dev Conversions competition 2017. Coders were set the task of creating their own ZX game conversion. The competition created a huge buzz within the Spectrum community, and as a result, some fantastic new games were created, specifically, Mighty Final Fight, Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors and one of my personal favourites, Gimmick!…
The official Commodore 64 release of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is well-known for being one of the most lacklustre conversions of the Capcom’s seminal tournament fighting game in existence, so we were excited to learn that a new, fan-based remake is in the works! Behind the planned reincarnation is Paco Herrera of PacoBlog64, which was originally conceived a…
Latest downloads over at The New Dimension are as follows: Electric Warrior A$$emble It Seuck Compo 2018 Moon Over Afghanistan Scene World #28 Website: tnd64.unikat.sk
Safar Games recently announced that their text-adventure game, Athanor 2 – The Legend of Birdmen, has been given a full UK English release. According to a post made by the game’s author, Eric Safar, on the official website, 50 copies have been made available for purchase. This isn’t an especially large quantity, so we suggest that adventure game fans who…
Toni Wilen continues his endeavours to improve the quintessential Amiga emulator for Windows-based computers with the release of WinUAE 4.0 public beta 12. As always, bear in mind that beta release isn’t guaranteed to be completely stable, so you may come across unexpected issues under normal use. According to Toni’s latest updates on the English Amiga Board (EAB) forum, the…
FM-YAM is a cartridge for your C64 that will add FM sound capability to your system. See it as adding Adlib to your C64, since it has the OPL2 YM3812 on board. Remember that a lot of 8-bit (and 16-bit) systems used to have Adlib options as well. There’s the original Adlib sound cards for PC, but other systems, such as…
Hot for you and just released Scene World #28 this time with interviews with Dennis Pauler, John Chowning, David John Pleasance, Christian Spanik, great articles by former Hugi staffer Lars Sobiraj, and also reports by Andrew Burch, Boris Kretzinger, Martin Ahman, Andrew Fisher and of course as always part 4 of Richard Bayliss’ game coding tutorial with a bonus game…
Anthony Perez (greenwebsevilla), veteran of the Spectrum development scene, is in the process of developing Gremlins 2: The NES Batch for the classic 8-bit micro. When horror comedy Gremlins 2: The New Batch hit movie theatres in 1990, a slew of video game adaptations were soon to follow. Sunsoft were responsible for developing a version of the game for the NES,…
The team at Megastyle are very pleased to announce that their new title, Exploding Fish for the Commodore 64, is now available for digital purchase from their Itch.Io site for just $2USD. Exploding Fish sees you take control of Diver Dougal in an effort to dive deep and defuse bombs dropped onto the protected reefs by the evil Doctor Drax….
