ORGAMS – A new Z80 assembler for the Amstrad CPC

It’s in the works a new assembler called ORGAMS for the Amstrad CPC. ORGAMS is a ROM based assembler (use it with the great X-MEM by TotO) and is loosely based on DAMS/Turbo Assembler. You can discuss the features or ask for help in the dedicated thread in the Push’n’Pop forum. Parlez-vous français? If so, you can also check out…

Tired of the beeps your Apple II makes? Get a brand new "Music Card MC1" clone!

First known as “Apple Music II”, and later renamed “Music Card MC1”, this Apple II sound card had nine voices on a single card, delivering excellent sound quality for your projects. But what if you can’t find one nowadays? To fill this gap, Plamen Vaysilov has produced a clone of the ALF MC1, and he’s selling it on eBay for…

Multimatograf 11 – Demoparty in Russia on April 24-26

Multimatograf 11 is a multi-format demoparty running from April 24-26 in Vologda, Russia and remote entries are more than welcome! There will be several different categories that you can participate: 8bit Music, 8bit intro 256b, 8bit Demo, and much more. In order to participate, your demo has to on one of the following available hardware: ZX-Evolution + NeoGS Commodore C64…

Commodore 64 Sundays is Back – Lords of Midnight

[youtube EX8XtekApB8 nolink] In this video “Zerfall” takes a look at Lords of Midnight, game 76 of the lemon 64 top 100 (as of August 31st 2014). Zerfall mentions that he has played this campaign all the way though, but not in this video, however you can have a good idea how the game works with the video up on…

Open Apple #44 – Beagle Bros Reunion Roundtable

This month on Open Apple, the guys sit down with Beagles Bros Randy Brandt, Mark Simonsen Tom Weishaar, and Alan Bird. They share stories of Beagle’s development, poke lots of fun at each other, and check in on where everyone is now. They also talk about the upcoming Oz KFest in Australia, and much more Apple II love! Link: Open-Apple

Pentacorn Quest

Recently released, comes Pentacorn Quest, an Adventure/Platformer for the ZX Spectrum created using the popular La Churrera (The Mojon Twins) In the game, you need to collect five golden acorns distributed by the large mapping and deliver to the magical sanctuary, so you can cross an ancient door that will lead to … well, creators would prefer us not to…

Exhibition 'Play the Game: 40 years of Video Games' until the end of May, 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

[youtube sdKrnmyQREQ nolink] It is happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since last January the exhibit ‘Play the Game: 40 years of Video Games’, an interactive exhibition that explores more than 40 years of video games through a dynamic visual tour of consoles and games that marked an era. The exhibition can be visited for free between 14:00 to 20:30 from…

RGCD 2014 C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition Results

RGCD has released on CSDb a C64 Electronic Magazine with the results of its 2014 16KB Cartridge Game Development. The first three games are: p0 Snake Tiger Claw Voivod Attack They mentioned in the mag Introduction section that it was hard to judge the entries, due to the overall quality of the games being so high. There were 17 submissions…

The MagPI Magazine Reviews Three Retro Gaming Packages for Raspberry PI

The MagPI, now under the Raspberry PI Foundation umbrella, has just release its issue #31, and one of the featured articles is a review of three emulator packages for Raspberry PI: RetroPie, Raspicade and RiPlay. These are the article’s verdicts for each package: PiPlay – PiPlay offers a good collection of emulators that are easily configured to work with many games…

Commodore 64 version of 'The Sword of Fargoal' cracked by Hokuto Force

Hokuto Force has released yesterday a new cracked version of ‘The Sword of Fargoal’, a dungeon crawler created by Jeff McCord and released by Epyx in 1982. Sword of Fargoal is noteworthy for being one of the first microcomputer games to introduce elements later used by so-called roguelike games, such as dungeons that are randomly generated for each session of…