A lot of people out there that celebrates Christmas like to have their own traditions that are repeated religiously every year. Blake Patterson from Byte Cellar has also jumped on the tradition rituals bandwagon and once more published a post showing off retro Christmas demos. The 2017 demo collection consists of 16 demos across 13 platforms, including the CoCo, ZX…
Pluto63 has made a 2 part video about Commodore 64 Repair. The videos are in Greek language, however you can easily add English subtitles in YouTube. Check out the videos below. Source: Pluto63
Terrible news for the ZX Spectrum community. The creator of the ZX-Modules has announced that he will leave the retro scene and with him the ZX-Modules webpage and Facebook page. ZX-Modules is a comprehensive set of tools and utilities for ZX Spectrum cross-development. The set includes ZX-Paintbrush, ZX-Blockeditor, ZX-Preview, and ZX-Assembler among other indispensable tools that made a lot of people’s…
MSXPad is an IDE that let you program for the MSX using the Pascal language, which can be a nice way to get started on the MSX world for those who are not versed in assembler or C. The biggest problem to start using the tool is that the current official version doesn’t work on Windows 8 or 10. Thankfully,…
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga Chiptunes music disk, titled “Snowchips”. Aaron’s new Christmas disk contains 9 Awesome tunes to listen to, including music from the new C64 game, Galencia! The file is adf format and has been tested on WinUAE A1200, A4000 specs and real hardware (Amiga 1200/030). Download from the link below and crank up the…
Our old friend Carsten ‘tomse’ Jensen has produced two amazing calendars for the year of 2018. One containing all months on one single page, and the other, the traditional one page per month. Both are full of our all-time favorite C64 game images! The calendars are in PDF and ready to be printed. If you were looking for a calendar, consider…
Tec-toy is a Brazilian toy/electronics manufacturer that had launched, in partnership with Sega, the Mega Drive initially in 1990, around one year after it brought the Master System to the Brazilian gamers. Although it passed through tough times in the late 90’s, the company kept investing in Sega consoles and even launched original Mega Drive games at the beginning of the…
Amitopia has published a nice article revealing that the Amiga sound chip was already capable of play high-quality 14bit sound back in 1985. At the time, the limit was the 68000 that couldn’t get the machine to play raw 14bit wave files. Not sure if that is common knowledge but it is a surprise to me, just proving how advanced…
I hope the title of this post won’t be seen as a bait&click one, as in this new game for the ZX Spectrum you play as a chess piece, but you don’t play the chess game! Knight Hero is an arcade/action platform game where you play as the knight, the only chess piece that didn’t get enprisoned by their enemies….
Slime, a game created by Mr. NOP and released last year for the Commodore 64 (reported here), got a new version just in time for the World of Commodore, which happened last weekend in Toronto, Canada. There are the additional features added to the game: A loading picture Bug fixed the level display Bonus life at 10,000 points Starts in single…
