Back in 1990, IFD (soon to be Id Software) wanted to pitch a PC version of Super Mario 3 to Nintendo and to do so made a demo of the game running on the platform. As we all known Nintendo is adamant (or was) to keep its exclusive games only to its own consoles and the history tells us Id…
The new issue of Pro(c) Atari is ready and wait for your orders. The team behind it will try to ship is as soon as possible so it can be a nice addition to your Christmas stockings. This issue contents: Time For A Quickie Report: Videogame MeetingRasta Converter Pictures Rasta Converter Pictures Interview: Christopher Murray Reviews by Jeff Parker of…
Cloanto has released an update for its Amiga Forever (2016.0.22.0). This new update has an improved the AmigaOS 4.1 FE installation experience by detecting the presence of bootable CD and floppy disk images, and adding instructions as needed. Besides that there are many other small fixes, including on that could lead to the Guru Meditation when booting from the harddisk image…
Part 11 of this “best-seller” blog post series is out, bringing more of his Tetris game coding with 6502 Assembler. Wiebo de Wit mentioned on his post that his code has changed so much during his process to write the article that he decide to only talk about the highlights. These are the changes he will cover: Modified the input…
Waimanu Scary Monsters Saga is an unofficial fan-made game based on Sega’s own Pengo, released back in 1982. Disjointed Studio, a homebrew developer, has released this new title for the Sega Master System which is the third release in the Waimanu series. [youtube czDBR_bG_pw nolink] With 32 levels spanning 4 stages showing amazing graphics, this game is a must have for…
Ultimate Micro has announced that although the first run is sold out, they are planning to have a second run of the Mockingboard sound board very soon. There is no date set yet, but you can keep up to date accessing the store website and also its forum. Link: Ultimate Micro
So it’s not Star Wars Battlefront, but it’s the next best thing! This week’s episode of Sprite castle takes a look at Domark’s arcade conversion of Atari’s classic Star Wars arcade game, 1987’s RETURN OF THE JEDI. If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on…
Infocom was the text adventure main publisher in the 80s, being Zork the best-known among the company’s many successful games. A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom was recently released and made available through Internet Archive. During his time at Infocom, Steve Meretzky meticulously…
Life on Mars is a new game by Kai Magazine, an MSX2 action-platformer game that features good graphics and music. The game will be released as a 512KB megarom cartridge. The requirements are MSX2 or higher with at least 128KB RAM/128KB VRAM (OPL4/MOONSOUND version) or 64KB RAM/128KB VRAM (FM-PAC/MUSIC MODULE version). You can check the game watching the video below….
This video is fairly old, from 2008. It was presented by Michael Steil at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress, but it has resurfaced today on Reddit. It is still the best 1-hour long summary of the Commodore 64 hardware and the perfect introduction for those who want to learn more how the C64 works. [youtube ZsRRCnque2E nolink] There is also…
