Gruber has released a chiptune version of the “Stranger Things” soundtrack. For those of you that have never heard of it, Stranger Things is an American science fiction-horror web television series created, written, directed and co-executive produced by the Duffer Brothers, as well as co-executive-produced by Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. You can listen to the whole chiptune ost over…
The only upside of Radio Shack demise is the sales that happen to clear inventory. Following the store’s fire sales, the company has opened its vaults and is auctioning historical equipment and memorabilia through UBid Estate and Auctions. There are plenty of catalogs, paintings, posters, and of course retro computers. A quick glance at the list filtering by TRS-80 shows a…
Jim Bagley has released some new interesting News regarding info about game loading screens on the ZX Spectrum Next and a New Game! Jim wrote: A quick test to see what some new loading screens could look like :) these were just some ST loading screens quickly resized to 256×192 and put into Spectrum Next palette. Let me know what…
Hyperkin, the company behind many modern versions of classic consoles, has shown its new product, the RetroN 77, a modern take on the classic Atari 2600. As you can see from the picture above, they took the design seriously, even bringing back the wood finishing and the classic controllers (you can use original or USB joysticks). While the many Atari Flashback…
In Lumberjack Reloaded you are eh….. a lumberjack that has the task to cut the trees while avoiding to branches that are coming in your direction. The premise is simple but the video below shows a clever game with cute graphics and catchy soundtrack. The game is set to be released in July but you can pre-order it now for…
It was announced by its developer, Ghislain de Blois, that his new game for the VIC-20, Realms of Quest V is under development and he hopes to finish it soon. The game looks pretty ambitious for the VIC-20, but based on the developer’s blog posts, it seems to be coming along well. On his words: 32K RAM expansion required (lesser expansion modes…
I believe the ZX Spectrum Next made me more aware of all things Speccy as I am not myself what you could call a “Spectrum guy”. I first learned to program BASIC in a TK-82C (ZX-81 Clone) but I was never the owner of any Sinclair machine. I am, however, a big fan of these little marvels. I already own…
Gamasutra website has released from its Vault a presentation from this years’ Game Development Conference (GDC) with nothing less than Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley’s postmortem of Civilization. Very common in the game industry (and many others as well), the postmortem is an evaluation of a certain game development process, analyzing what went right and what went wrong, how it should’ve…
It is not always from the freshest news that you find something interesting. I’ve just stumbled today on this post on Kotaku’s website from 2014 talking about some radio shows from the 80’s that would provide downloadable content to the listeners. The principle was simple. If you can “play” a software from your cassette and the computer loads it, why not sending…
We’ve been publishing many posts about the MEGA65, the FPGA-based Commodore 65 that is in development for the past 2 years or so. Today, there is a big update on the development blog, showing the latest PCB being tested, loading the C65 firmware, and being tested with an authentic C65 keyboard! It is also nice to see Paul going down the…
