Eurogamer.net has published yesterday an article talking about the NES homebrew market, which is very active, even after 22 years after the NES was officially dead. The text is a treat for any aspiring developer that always thought about making a cartridge-based game for a console. And you can even make some money! “I think, in the coming years, you’ll…
John Blythe (Foggy’s Quest) has started on a brand new AGD platformer project called ‘Circuitry’. The game is a Manic Miner style single screen platformer, and it is looking gorgeous! Help Nan O’Bot find the fragments of usable code from an infested mainframe. Watch out for corrupted machine code and power surge imps! Ride the I/O Ports through the system…
Argus is a new stunning role playing adventure for the Commodore 64. Explore the lands of Argus that span 1500 locations on your quest to find and free the captured Starchild. Argus was programmed by Achim Volkers, with graphics design by Trevor Storey and atmospheric soundtracks by Saul Cross. For decades Zoran has sat in the temple of lies waiting…
Miky’s Land is a new Amiga run and shoot platformer much in the same vein as Mario Bros 3 and Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair (Autoscroll). These endless runner type games can be quite frustrating but fun at the same time. Basic game idea is to survive as long as can, while avoiding the nasties in your path. Beautiful little…
So, I have taken it upon myself to do the unthinkable, I am writing a 1000 room text adventure in qbasic64, it’s a modern version of qbasic that runs on modern computers. So within it, you play a reporter who’s plane goes down during a storm and you crash land on a small island off the east coast of the…
Glen Hewlett has been publishing an extensive 25-part article about his quest to convert the Z80 arcade version of PacMan to the Motorola 6809, allowing it to run in the TRS-80 CoCo. Well, he finally was able to finish the task, and you can download and play it. You need a 512K CoCo3 to play it though (or any CoCo3…
As you may remember we have been covering the latest News about Sam’s Journey, an epic new platformer for the Commodore 64, since it was first announced way back in 2015. It’s been a long ride but Sam’s Journey is almost here, and Protovision have just announced availability for pre-order! The game comes in various flavours. Sam’s Journey Boxed Disk…
After getting an Amiga 1200 summer 2016, almost a year later I’ve finally got it set up close to how I want it. What I primarily did on the Amiga back in the days was create music on it and the only thing I didn’t sell when making the big mistake of selling my towered A1200 in 2005 was my…
Retro-gaming hitting the major outlets again. This time BBC News has published an article, written by Jennifer Scott, about the revival of retro-gaming. Blaming pure nostalgia or even to show off (?) the games to the children, more and more people are going back and playing old games. Old games availability is not necessarily new, but it is undeniable that…
In 1979, Atari released their 400 home computer. Despite its miserable keyboard, compared to its larger sibling (the Atari 800), it’s only real limitation was it’s 16k RAM limit. Luckily, Atari made available part CO61553 – a 48k RAM upgrade card – which could be installed with limited modifications to the board. This board continued to be available at BEST…
