Retro Asylum Podcast, Episode 177 Lucky Dip

Retro Asylum, Episode 177 has been released. The guys catch up with Dean Swain, Paul Davies & Chris O’Regan as they answer another round of #askRA questions, plus Dean & Paul play four Commodore 64 games picked at random in the debut of their new “Lucky Dip” feature. Listen: Retro Asylum Podcast, Episode 177 Website: retroasylum.com

Dave Clarke’s Impossabubble, Digital Download Now Available!

Just a quick post to let you know, Dave Clarkes new Speccy game is now available as a digital download! You can purchase Impossabubble right now for the pocket money price of only $1.49! I paid more than that for a Vanilla Latte today! Head over to retrobeachman.itch.io and grab your copy now! [vsw id=”hJMugcHBVeQ” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]There have…

New Speccy Game in Development, Rubicon by John Blythe

John Blythe has teased a new work in progress AGD game for.. yes.. you guessed it.. ZX Spectrum! I think we are going to have to change our website name to “Speccy is the New Old” soon! The game is called Rubicon (like the drink) and is looking very colourful and cute, but don’t be fooled, not everything cute is…

Impossabubble Announced! A New ZX Spectrum 48K/128K Tape Game (With Music by David Saphier!)

Dave Clarke has just announced on Facebook that his new game “Impossabubble” will be released on tape for the ZX Spectrum under Monument Microgames. In the game you play as a bubble and you have to rescue your friends who have been trapped and turned into a bubble mix. The aim of the game is to find them all.. if…

ZX-Dev Game Conversions Comp, Time for the people to vote for the Best Game!

A few days ago we posted the complete list of the ZX-Dev Conversions games and we hope you have tried at least some of them. Although the best games will be chosen by an official panel, the Planeta Sinclair website has the post a widget (on the top right side of the site) allowing you to pick one and vote. It…

DOSBox-X 0.82.2 Released

DOSBox-X 0.82.2 has been released. DOSBox-x is a branch of DOSBox v0.74. DOSBox emulates an Intel x86 PC, complete with sound, graphics, mouse, joystick, modem, etc., necessary for running many old MS-DOS games that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and FreeBSD. DOSBox-X Changelog DOS filename handling fixed…

Inviyya, A New Work in Progress Amiga Shmup for Amiga 500

Way back in October 2016, Steril707 created a thread on the English Amiga Board about a new Amiga 500 Shmup called Inviyya. If your an avid Amiga fan, you may be following Steril707’s YouTube Channel, where he uploads videos of his progress. A new video has appeared on the channel and we must say it’s looking very nice indeed. The game…

PLASMA 1.0 – A new open source programming language for the Apple II, Apple ///

If you haven’t noticed yet, the retro computing scene is alive and more active than ever! What better proof of that than a brand new language that can only be used on 30+-year-old computers! After a few beta releases in the past couple months, PLASMA (Proto Language AsSeMbler for Apple) 1.0 is finally officially out. PLASMA is a medium level…

Scene World Podcast Episode #44 – Rob Hubbard!

Rob Hubbard is one of the best known composers of video game music, and has been producing music on the C64 as well as many other machines for decades. AJ and Joerg talk to him about the recently completed PROJECT HUBBARD, his career, and the future of game music. sceneworld.org

Jack The Unicorn Hunter, A Work in Progress Game? by Foxman (Twin Games Software).

On Sunday we shared some News about Foxman’s upcoming “Elfie the Unicorn“, a children’s game for the Amiga. Today we have some more interesting info, on maybe another work in progress game from Foxman titled “Jack the Unicorn Hunter”. The game is a reverse role of Elfie, where instead of the Unicorn as the player, you are a unicorn hunter!…