Usborne Books releases old computer books catalog for free

For most of us, if not all of us, getting books from the 80s in PDF form is nothing really new, as we are used getting them from several different sources, including Internet Archive, Bombjack.org and many others. Nonetheless, it is newsworthy when a publishing house decided to post his 1980s catalog for free. The books are mostly targetted to…

Source Code of 'Manic Miner ReM' for the C64 has been released

DrHonz was feeling extra generous today and has also published the source codes of Manic Miner. The zip file available contains the D64 image file with the game ready to be played, as well as all the assembler source code to be compiled using DASM. As far as I could see, the source code is super well organized and full…

'Boulder Dashes' for C64 with Source Code Included

DrHonz (Honz Liepa) has released on CSDb a batch of several Boulder Dash games, with the source code included. There are a new release plus several others that were released in the past. I am always excited when I see releases with the source included, which helps to share knowledge and bring more C64 enthusiasts up to speed which could,…

2016 BASIC 'Tenliners' contest – My very first 10-liner is for the MSX

If you follow our (almost) daily posts, you probably saw one about the 2016 BASIC Tenliner contest, that is happening right now until March 28th. After reading the appeal made on MSX Resource Center, calling for MSX programmers to participate in the contest, I decided to listen and give my contribution. The only caveat is that I never had done…

Amiga Games Award 2015 – And the winner is…

The Obligement Amiga website published the results of its pool which let you chose the best Amiga games of 2015. The list below shows the 3 first places of each category and the link will take you to a gameplay video (or info page), in case you haven’t seen them before! AmigaOS (68k): Zerosphere – Code Red / Alexander Grupe SQRXZ 3 –…

'Rock Maze' – New game for C64 by Reset Magazine Staff

When I saw this game today on CSDb I thought “Uh, shiny!”. With that profound thought in mind, I downloaded it to check it out. The very first thing I noticed is the use of the old school password for each level, so you don’t have to restart the game from the beginning every time is game over. So make sure…

Reset Issue #8 – The Magazine for the casual Commodore 64 user

Reset Magazine issue #8 has just been released. The issue brings lots of articles, news and game reviews like of Daffy Duck, Heroes & Cowards, Knight ‘N’ Grail  and much more. On the magazine website, you can also download the companion floppy containing Jump Ninja and Blap ‘n Bash, Nuclear Strike Force (they couldn’t stick a real disk on the PDF cover, sorry!)…

"Super Famicom: The Box Art Collection" by Bitmap Books waiting for you!

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…

The Malware Museum – See the viruses from the 80's and 90' in action

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…

Atari 8-bit 'Rainbow Walker' ported to Atari 5200

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…