This is actually pretty cool, like finding Moses’ Commandments drafts. Jason Scott kindly announced on Apple II Enthusiasts that he put up on Flickr several images of in-progress artwork during the development of Karateka. The images were found in Mechner’s floppies while Jason was digitalizing them. Most of the images shows almost the final artwork we see in the game, but…
David Schroeder himself has announced on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group that his third article has been published on Gamasutra blogs. Although we failed to announce the first two articles…”better late than never”, right? In 1981, David Schroeder taught himself 6502 assembly language and wrote several best-selling home computer games, including CRISIS MOUNTAINand DINO EGGS. On his third article, entitled “What…
Scene World will attend at the press conference in the Film Museum of Frankfurt: Joe Lewandowski, leader of famous of ET Atari archaeologica that took place in the dessert of New Mexicos , USA in 2014. This way an old rumor was proven to be correct that said, that the videogame developer ATARI digged thousand of game carts due to…
The seventh issue of the printed Atari 8bit-Magazine PRO(C) ATARI is now available in English. If you want to know what PRO(C) ATARI means, you must buy this issue! This issue is also a debut a better print quality and more colours. Some of the content: Time For A Quickie (three Games played shortly) Tank Commander Remember Stichting Pokey Star…
At the beginning of this year (2015 just in case!), the Mojon Twins released a game for the NES called ‘Jet Paco’, which was greatly praised by the community for its visuals and gameplay, as you can check yourself on the video below. [youtube KFk0ltRYA-k nolink] Now, The Mojon Twins have started a crowdfunding campaign to be able to release…
Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.2.0 beta 15. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes link, have…
Stuart Johns over at myAcornElectron is running a competition to win signed artwork, drawn by Ben Hughes in September ’86 and also the mapping grids designed by Geoff Livesey in ’87. The wonderful ‘Adventures‘ column in Electron User ran from 1986 to 1990, taking over from ‘Merlin’s Cave‘. Pendragon, aka Nic Outterside, has kindly donated this fantastic artwork from 1986…
Two new Special Editions cases, and more are on their way! First SE is named after Allister Brimble, the famous Amiga games music author with dozens of titles we all know by heart. Allister banded with Bjorn Lynne so that with his Special Edition case come two fantastic albums: – The AMIGA Works – 2CD Remastered Amiga games music, by…
The new edition of MSXdev, the most important MSX1 development contest in recent years, has been announced. As games are announced, their entries will be created in MSXBlog where you will find all available information as their authors add comments and notes. Also, of course, as they become available for download, you can do it. If you are considering to participate, these…
Norbert Kehrer has released today a new game for the Commodore 64 – Sprint 1. Sprint 1 is a top-view racing game released for the Arcades in 1978 by Atari, and Keher’s C64 version really brings back the arcade’s game play to the letter, as you can see below on t his video of the original Atari version. [youtube MrF57Z5hAUk nolink]…
