Francois Lionet has established a Patreon to help fund development of AMOS 2, a successor to the popular AMOS Basic programming language and development studio he helped create for the Commodore Amiga. The original AMOS Basic became popular with coders looking to get started in games development, and various projects were released in the years following it’s release. AMOS 2…
PAX is a series of gaming conventions dedicated to supporting and celebrating video and tabletop gaming. Over the last weekend, the Australian edition of PAX was held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. While the convention features booths from major game publishers and independent developers, panels from video game industry insiders, LAN parties, tabletop gaming and competitions, it was the Classic…
We revisit and review the classic 1996 robot-crushing RTS game by The Bitmap Brothers!
How do you keep track of all the different machines released over the years? How do you catalogue different versions of games, down to the different packaging? And how can you ensure that the game you’re looking for is real and authentic? Databases, that’s how! The Martin Ahman, AJ Heller and Joerg Droege talk to Fred Fischer from Consolevariations and…
So this time we have 2 videos from our editor Andrew (Merman) again: 1) Exploding Fish: A special behind the scenes video looking at EXPLODING FISH from Chris Stanley and Megastyle. This video includes an unboxing of the limited edition tape version (with its Melbourne House-inspired artwork), a look at how the music was developed (composed by Merman of Scene…
Numskull Designs have partnered with BANDAI Namco Entertainment with the plan to release a series of one quarter scale full working arcade cabinets with the Pac-Man edition now available on pre-order for £149.99. The Pac-Man Quarter Size Arcade Cabinet is an official, fully playable, accurate 1/4 scale replica of the original Pac-Man cabinet that runs the original arcade rom via…
As the precursor to the both the VIC-20 and C64, the Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) was launched in 1977, and was one of the first truly personal computers aimed at the home market, as well as making inroads into business and education sectors. And now, thanks to it’s on-going mission to archive and preserve the history of humankind in…
A few months back it was revealed that Intellivision, a major influence in the video games boom of the early 1980s, was planning to release a new video game console, and the company has now unveiled it’s concept for the “Amico”, a system set to focus on family-friendly entertainment. Much like the original Intellivision unit, the Amico design features a…
CollectorVision are looking to provide an easy way to play your favourite Collecovision game on modern TV with the Kickstarter launch of their FPGA based Phoenix system. However, the campaign appears to have failed to spark the community’s interest as with 15 days left the project has only been able to secure 30% of its $230,000 USD funding target. The…
As cool as the Amiga CD32 console might have been, one of the more questionable design decisions around the ill-fated unit was undoubtedly it’s U-shaped game controller. Those of you in possession of Commodore’s swansong machine might be interested by the endeavours of English Amiga Board user, MickGyver, who has been hard at work updating his already-impressive KTRL CD32 pad…
