C64.com has published an interview with Karl Hörnell, a C64 game developer back in the 80s responsible for games like Velocipede, Fruity and others. The interview gives us a nice glimpse of what was be a C64 developer at the time, telling about the development process, the tools, etc. Link: C64.com
After 20 years, the CD copy / homebrew protection on the Sega Saturn has been cracked. A very clever reverse engineer known as Professor Abrasive has managed to dump the 64kB ROM of the CD subsystem processor and figured out the byzantine copy protection code and how it interacts with the Video CD slot. A proper announcement of this is…
Quartz website has reported that the Apollo Guidance Computer code was published on Github. If you are interested in both the Apollo program and programming, you will be delight to be able to go over the thousands of pages of the code that helped the man to go to the Moon. The code, according to Quartz, has been available for the public…
Over on hackaday.io, user kodera2t is documenting his build of a minimalist 8-bit computer. The design is based on Grant’s 6-chip 6809 computer, but kodera2t has gone the next step and released the source files for his PC board. Not into etching your own boards? That’s okay – this computer can even be built on a breadboard! All you need…
A new classic gaming contest has been announced over at highscore.com. This time, the goal is to crack previous high score trophies on Atari (2600, 5200, 7800, 400/800/XL/XE, Lynx, Jaguar, ST) Colecovision PC Engine / TG-16 Nintendo (NES/Famicom, Super NES, N64, Gameboy, GBC, Virtual Boy) Arcade / MAME This contest has some truly awesome prizes, including an X-Arcade Dual Stick,…
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment has released the sources for Habitat. Possibly the world’s first MMO game / virtual world, LucasFilm Games and Quantum Link launched Habitat in 1986 on the Commodore 64. Amazingly, a strong following actually emerged, willing to pay by the hour to dial in via modem to participate in this first virtual online community….
The Den of Geek website has published one of those (in)famous lists that you see all over the internet. This one talks about the 15 greatest games even made for the ZX Spectrum. The site is not oriented directly to retro gamers so maybe you won’t agree with every choice, but with Elita, Manic Miner and R-Type, the author was…
The second edition of Apple II Festival France has been announced. It will be held August 12 to 15 at Le Maska, Castéra-Verduzanin in Gers. A preliminary program for the event is online. There are still lots of unfilled workshop slots, but there are already some great sessions scheduled, including: Preserving floppy disks Lego interface card Apple II joysticks and…
Paulo Peccin has announced the immediate availability of his WebMSX, a MSX emulator that runs directly on your browser. If you frown when you hear “browser-based”, you will change your mind. WebMSX is amazingly fast and fully-featured and with the new features of the version 2.0, it gets even better. Check the changelog below: 9 Generic machines (MSX1, MSX2, MSX2+)….
F-Clash is the new contestant try to get votes from the tough CSDb crowd and win the 2016 SEUCK Game competition that ends next November. In F-Clash you are the pilot of the RGB Squadron and have to defend the world against the evil forces while dodging the city landscape. The graphics are just ok but the game plays very well. The…
