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…
Amicast is a podcast about the Amiga, covering everything about the platform, past and present! In this episode the team interviews “Boing Attitude”, a software house for the Amiga, MS Windows and Android. Boing Attitude are responsible for education games software such as “Ask Me Up” and the file manager “Dir Me Up”. Website: Amicast
RetroManCave recently made a video about Retrobriting in the UK. England is well known for rainy days and not much sun, except maybe in the months, June, July and August. If you’re a Retro computer collector, this can be frustrating for Retrobriting your old computers outside. Neil shows us other ways to achieve this, without using the sun, testing different…
Club Info is a German language d64 Magazine for the Commodore C116, C16 and Commodore Plus/4. The following articles are included; Forum, Scene, Tips & Tricks, Assembloids Basic, Castle Matcher, Micromind, Craps, Computer Spass, Digitalstar, Hardware, Rug Rider, Slipstream, Deadline, Rap4 and other systems. Download: club_info_148.zip Source: plus4world.powweb.com
The Retro Hour is a popular English Retro Gaming Podcast run by Dan Wood, Ravi Abbot, Joe Fox and Paul Kitching. The guys have interviewed various famous people in the Retro Gaming Scene, including big names such as Rob Hewson, Jonathan Cauldwell, The Oliver Twins and Jim Bagley. Episode #106 features the highs and lows of DMA Design with Steve Hammond….
Over on Flashtro.com you can watch awesome cracker intros within your browser! Intros include Amiga, Atari ST, Dreamcast and Playstation. Latest Additions to the site are as follows. (Click to View) Flashtro – Professional Lottery System Alpha Flight – Yogi Bear Dytec – Ishar Rebels – Popeye 2 Agile – M.U.D.S The Firm – Scenery Animator 2.0 Nova Acies –…
