Bitmap Books has certainly found its niche and a lot of success there, not without deserving it. The publisher has been releasing many fantastic books about retro gaming like Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium. Now they just released a new book called Super Famicom: The Box Art Collection, which shows, as the name suggest, the box art of almost 250 classic Super…
You will feel like you are wearing a hazmat suit while handling a dangerous virus in a lab. The Internet Archive just released The Malware Museum displaying a collection of viruses that were spread in de the 80s and 90s. If names like PYRAMID.COM, ITALIAN.COM and ZHU.COM make you tremble in terror, you will love to visit the Internet Archive collection and…
Rainbow Walker was published by Synapse Software in 1983 for the Atari 8-bit. Developed by Steve Coleman, it is an arcade game where you control Cedrick, a small creature that has the power to add colours back to the rainbow after a villain had stolen all the colors leaving the rainbow gray and dull. The AtariAge forum user Wrathchild managed to make the conversion…
The Return of Heracles is an adventure game for the Commodore 64 (and other machines) written by Stuart Smith and published by Quality Software in 1983, where you can play as many heroes from Greek myth. Thirty-three years have passed and he Fairlight demoscene group has released a cracked version with a trainer and custom loader. You can download the game…
If you, Amiga friend, is out of good literature about your favourite computer, I have good news. Amigaville Magazine issue 4 is out! This month, the magazine brings interesting articles like “Should Hyperion port to x86?” and “Whatever happened to Amiga Anywhere?” which for sure will heat up the discussion about the future of the Amiga OS, copyrights and other subjects…
Tanks Furry was developed by Pawel Nowak, Krzysztof Matys and Marcin Swiech for the Polish “RetroKomp GameDev Compo” where it got the second place. It is a tank shooter game where you have to hit the opponent’s tanks before they destroy your base. Main features: Hand made, old school pixel graphics Dedicated chip tune soundtrack and SFX Over 40 missions to play alone…
We have recently posted about the availability of the Vampire II accelerator board for the Amiga 600 and how it would make your old friend fly. Since then, a lot of buzz about the board happened on the Amiga Facebook groups Commodore Amiga and Amiga Friends. Two happy users have just received their boards and kindly wrote their Review/First Impressions. There…
KansasFest 2016, the 28th annual Apple II convention, is now open for registration. Users, programmers, hobbyists, and retrocomputing enthusiasts are invited to Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 19, through Sunday, July 24, for six days and five nights of sessions, demos, announcements, contests, and camaraderie. Mike Harvey, a business executive, salesperson, technologist, project manager, entrepreneur, programmer,…
A new version of WinApe, the Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows containing bug fixes and improvements. Here is the complete changelist for the new version: Correct Z80 Flags emulation for IN and OUT and all derivatives. Added support for CRTC Type 1 register 6 border blanking when set to zero. Changed breakpoint conditions to use 32 bit values rather than 16 bit values….
Sprite Castle, the podcast about the Commodore 64 has a new episode. This week, Rob O’hara covers the 1985 Data East game KARATE CHAMP. If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on Sprite Castle by accessing the podcast website, following the link below. Link: Sprite Castle
