First of all, if you are wondering about what is a game jam, “it is a gathering of people for the purpose of planning, designing, and creating one or more games within a short span of time…”. With that out of the way, today a ZX Spectrum game jam has started as we announced before. During the next 13 days,…
Blake Patterson has published a blog post and a demo video about a new device that a lot of people in our retro community have been talking about: the Wifi232, an inexpensive device that lets you BBS the way it was meant to be done, on hardware from the golden age of the Bulletin Board System. Since the device connects…
AmiKit X, the 10th long-awaited major update to a well-known emulation package, was recently released. Originally developed as the main operating system for A.L.I.C.E. (A Laptop Incorporating Classic Experience), it is now available for the broader audience of Windows and Mac users. Besides an interesting “Rabbit Hole” feature enabling you to launch Windows or Mac applications on emulated Amiga desktop,…
The Commodore Plus/4 was my very first computer, many awesome games have been released for this system despite it generally being a flop for Commodore. As well as specific Plus/4 only games, this computer was also capable of playing Commodore 16 games. One of these I fondly remember was “Video Meanies” released by Mastertronic in 1986. PJG Developments are very…
One of the promises made during the ZX Spectrum Next campaign and reinforced in the Facebook group was a revamped website for the Next. The idea is to have a central hub where the backers and the public in general, can get information about the Next, not only during the development phase but also after the project is complete. We…
AmigaRemix has been updated with the following remixes of iconic soundtracks: Shadow Of The Beast II – Title (Chillout Edit) Blue Berry (Cover) Darkman007 Turrican II – The Desert Rocks (Trance/Dance Remix) SLL1 Remix v2 Lizardking’s Theme (Epic Transition) A Final Hyperbase Leander – World One Once in a life (Turrican3 End Theme) (Psyria Reconstruction Edit) You can listen or…
The 8-Bit Guy has published a video where he walks us through the restoration of a CoCo 1 he acquired. The computer was in really bad shape, with a lot of dirty and the paint was worn off in different spots – a really ugly machine. I watched the video and he did a really good job, although I would think…
Martin Piper has released a new version 2.2.0.3 of his Windows-based SID composer tool. This release contains bug fixes and adding a new reference documentation for Dynamic track/table/block. To celebrate this new release, there is a new video showing the tune MeanStreak, composed by Matt Gray in 1987 and remake by NecroPolo in 2010. If you know nothing about chiptunes compositions, it is…
Motkonge is an action game that is inspired and pays excellent homage to the PC classic Populous. The objective of the game is to lead the Blue “team” and beat the red ones. As you team progresses, you conquer more land until you defeat the enemy. You can take a pick at the game play watching the video below. [vsw…
Yves Bolognini is the founder of the Bolo Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. They’re working to preserve and display the history of computers, and they need your help! AJ and Joerg talk to Yves about this unique collection, and about the largely unknown Swiss influence on computing history. http://scene.world/bolomuseum help them staying alive: The Bolo Museum Needs You!: http://go.bolo.ch/en
