An old Adventure game called “Murdlok” for the Commodore 64 has been recovered by Michael Steil (mist). Apparently the game from 1986 never saw an official release. Originally written in German by Peter Hempel, Murdlok has received a full English translation by Lisa Brodner and Michael Steil. Not much else is known about the game. We are keeping a close…
One day I was browsing the Atariage forum and saw some incredible screenshots of a game being developed for the Atari 2600. After reading through the thread, I learned that the game is Mappy, an arcade game released by Namco in 1983. To be completely honest, although I might have seen the characters around, I didn’t know the game, but…
In the first of a series of articles, we’ll take a trip down memory lane as I take you through some of the computing and gaming experiences of childhood, taking in the 8-bit scene, the Commodore Amiga and much more! In this issue, I’ll be taking look at my earliest computing experiences with the Commodore Plus/4! Many people get asked…
Wizard of Wor is an Arcade game released in 1980 by Midway. Up to two players fight together in a series of monster infested mazes. Clear each maze by shooting the alien creatures. The game was also ported to the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, Atari 2600, and Atari 5200. Tschak909 on NesDev forums is currently working on porting Wizard…
Ziriax is a horizontal scroller for the Amiga that was developed by The Whiz Kidz (a group of Belgium-based coders) and released by Software Business way back in 1990. Influenced by Arcade Shoot’em ups such as Nemesis, Vulcan Venture, Sky Shark and Thundercross, Ziriax is a four stage shoot’ em up, in which you fight against waves of bullet-spewing aliens…
Rick Dangerous II is a platform game released in 1990 for many computers including the ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and others. It was announced late last year on the Gamopat forum that the game was being ported to the Sega Genesis/Megadrive and now we are happy to tell you that it is already available for download. The user…
Amiga Bill interviews AmiParty attendees about their DIY Amiga projects including an Amiga 500 FPGA board, a scan doubler for the Amiga 1200, a floppy drive emulator with LCD that allows you to load .adf files off a microSD card, a headphone amplifier specifically designed for the Amiga, and an Amiga 1000 motherboard replacement called a “GBA 1000”. Check out…
I’ve repeatedly referred to I-code in previous articles. Let’s go into some more detail, and in passing correct a mistaken impression I may have given. What distinguishes I-code from other virtual machine code As you enter, edit, or load source code with basic09, it is converted to I-code. I-code is commonly likened to code for virtual machines, like the JVM…
Back in the day, there was no “pixel” art as such, since pixelated graphics was the only way computers were able to to display images. Today we see new amazing art released for our beloved retro hardware, such as amazing C64 graphics published daily on CSDb or the beautiful ZX Spectrum art over on ZX-Art. Since today’s computers are capable…
Developed by Steve Chapman and published by The Edge in 1984, Quo Vadis is a scrolling platformer infamous for several reasons. It was considered to be one of the biggest games available at the time, approaching 1024 screens in size, although far more interesting is the fact that the the publisher ran a competition to win a jewel-encrusted sceptre (reportedly…
