The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…
If you are not following the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook group you will love to know that the ZX Spectrum Next development is reaching important milestones. The developers have received another prototype of the machine which shows a PCB that will be probably very close to the one offered as the final product. It features several interfaces that will make any…
Hey all, so some people may know I’ve been working on a sequel to Monty’s Honey Run, and I’ve been full tilt on it for the last month. Unfortunately I had a problem with corruption in the AGD file and I lost a lot of work, I thought I had lost it all. However the good news, I managed to find…
Once again, John, Neil, and Mike Rowan are back to invade your podcatcher and green your screen with news, discussion, and Q&A about the Tandy Color Computer. This month, the Crew feature an interview with CoCo programmer Rick Adams and a tech segment on the SN76489AN audio card. Link: cococrew.org Subscribe: iTunes
The demo group DESiRE scored a major victory for the TI 99/4A over the weekend at the crazy mobile demoparty Synchrony. TI’s little 16-bit machine has seen almost zero representation in the demoscene, possibly owing to its lack of popularity outside the US. Its weird 16/8-bit CPU, and 256 bytes of main memory don’t win it any points, either. But…
The FloppyDays podcast is already well-known to dig deep into the history of many computers from the late 70s and early 80s. Episodes from the past already covered the TRS-80, the TI-88, HP-85 and many others. FloppyDays always bring the experts in the subject to participate as co-hosts or to give interviews, which enriches the content making the podcast a must…
The dream fairies have been kidnapped by the evil Mouse King and his acolytes. Use you magic to rescue them. Made with AGD for your beloved color-clashy Zx Spectrum! Castle Capers is probably my most joyful, colourful game. I spent long hours to get the graphics just right and it is my true act of love for my beloved Speccy. Thanks Jonathan Cauldwell…
The previously uncontrollable demo is now controllable!, thanks to Adrian Singh who hacked the code on the demo to enable the keyboard. Amazingly this is the first piece of hacking he has done for at least 27 years. Hats off to him! Thanks to him for taking the time to do this. Keys are: ‘A’ – up / pressed with…
Civilization is a global strategy game released in 1991 by MicroProse under the direction of Sid Meier, who weighs as legendary within the industry. It is one of the most popular and most successful games of all times. The player has the task to guide a tribe from the New Stone Age through the history of mankind up to the…
We had a chat with our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64 recently and he has sent over some fantastic “Exclusive News!”, regarding the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Retrofan has uploaded a new Beta 4 video to his YouTube channel and as you can see, the game is looking Fantastic! First thing you will notice, OneBitman has completely remade the Music…
