Do you have that retro project stuck and untouched for years!? Now it is time to step up and finish it! And the best way to do that is competing with fellow retro collectors for bragging rights, right? Retro Challenge 07/2015 is exactly that, a competition where you enter promising to accomplish something and commit to blog about it. It…
“NeoBrian” has published a new video following the well-known “Let’s Play” format, where he plays through the game ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’, release in 1983 by Quality Software for the Apple II (and other platforms). [youtube 7vECZ_6PF9U nolink] Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is an overhead dungeon crawler with strong RPG elements that sends you on a…
This episode features Letter Wizard, originally released in 1984 by DataSoft, and developed by Special Systems Software. As usual, the podcast website (link below) offers a wide variety of scans and screenshots for you to get a better picture of this software. Link: Inverse ATASCII
The guys over at C64.com have interviewed Matt Householder. Matt has been creating, programming, designing and producing video computer games for over 33 years. The games he worked on are: Krull, California Games, Barbie, GI Joe, Winter Games, Temple of Apshai Trilogy, World Games, Championship Wrestling, Vorpal Utility Kit, Sub Battle Simulator and California Games. Read the Interview: http://www.c64.com
Rich Stanton wrote a blog about the making of Lemmings. The story is about David Jones who lost his job at the Timex company in 1988. David bought an Amiga 1000, and started making games. Later he created DMA Design and the legendary game Lemmings. Let’s Go! http://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-lemmings/
In this English D64 magazine the following items: The Charts, News, World of Demos, History of SID, SIDTracker64, Interviews: Rock, Sphinx and Hedning, Ramblings of an Madman, RGCD, Gubdata 2015, Bruce Lee II, Revision 2015 and the list. Download: vandalismnews64.zipWebsite: CSDb
L., Erich (Erich) released a new Botticelli Bilderdisk for the Commodore C16/Plus/4. This double-sided diskette is filled with pictures in the Botticelli format. The Magica viewer is used to display the pictures. The pictures are a mix of handmade and digitized pictures. Download: botticelli_bilderdisk_40.zipWebsite: http://plus4world.powweb.com
You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Cream of the Earth (vs. Romeo Knight), Super Twintris “Those 3” Tunes Up-Mix, Risky Woods – “El Pueblo” Cover Version, Kid Gloves [ Castle ] The Toe-tapper’s Up-Mix, Hyperbased 2015, Lethal Xcess – Ruins of Methallycha, Einstein 2d6 –…
What is YAPE? YAPE is a Commodore 264 family emulator. It’s an 8-bit microcomputerfamily from the once-great-now-defunc Commodore Business Machines Ltd.They were released as a successor to the immensely popular Commodore 64supposedly to either compete with the ZX Spectrum and other micros buteventually failed to gain market success and the whole line was dumpedwithin a couple of years. However they…
Commodore News!, Hot off the press!!BozRetro resident DJ on Wednesday’s SLAYRadio Show BBB, had an interview only an hour ago, on his Live Show with none other than the great Chris Huelsbeck! Chris Huelsbeck was born 1968 in Kassel, Germany. He found himself dedicated to music at a very young age and started some piano lessons. At 14 he got…
