Retro Programming website announced today the 4th challenge about Z80 programming the ZX Spectrum. The challenge consists in creating a program up to 50 bytes that will perform a fade-to-white CLS command. As shown by the animation above, the program will scan the monitor following a diagonal line, and changing the colours of the lines until it gets white. The…
Another great release for the Commodore 64. This time we are talking about Bruce Lee II! In 2013, Bruno R. Marcos released a spiritual successor to the Bruce Lee game, originally released in 1984 by Datasoft Inc. Bruno’s game runs on Windows and Linux but it was created to look like games for the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. Last…
Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap and the output is an PostScript file. Changes in this version are: Improved the processing of very large bitmaps. Made a few general improvements and removed small errors. The program is available for Amiga OS4, Linux and…
The PiDP-8 is a project to replicate the hardware of the 8/I in a modern format. Instead of hundreds of Flip Chips, this PDP-8 is powered by a Raspberry Pi running the SIMH emulator. The 40-pin GPIO connector on the Pi is broken out to 92 LEDs and 26 toggle switches on a large PCB. The creator of the project…
Quietly working for that past few months, MagerValp, member of Genesis Project has released a remastered version of Ultima IV for the Commodore 64. The improvements are huge, going from graphics overhauling to brand new features. Here is the full list of changes: Graphics Overhaul Character creation intro has new graphics drawn by Vanja ‘Mermaid’ Utne. The tileset has been…
Ready Player One is a science fiction novel by Ernest Cline. The book was published by Random House on August 16, 2011 and tells the story of Wade Watts, a teenager in the year of 2044, where the most played game is a virtual reality world called OASIS. The game is full of riddles based on pop culture from the…
MSX Magazine Revival were released by ASCII in 2003 in occasion of the platform 20th anniversary, and were sold only in Japan. Each edition had a companion CD containing games and other goods. Now, these CDs are freely available on our beloved Internet Archive in ISO format. Some of the contents of the CDs are: CD1 • “Pleasant 8-Bit Games:”…
Quietly working for that past few months, MagerValp, member of Genesis Project has released a remastered version of Ultima IV for the Commodore 64. The improvements are huge, going from graphics overhauling to brand new features. Here is the full list of changes: Graphics Overhaul Character creation intro has new graphics drawn by Vanja ‘Mermaid’ Utne. The tileset has been…
WinUAE 3100b14 has been released. WinUAE is without a doubt the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can get a really great Amiga hard drive experience like in the picture above. Download: winuae_3100b14.zipRelease Notes: http://eab.abime.netSource: http://www.winuae.net
Mid April 2014 development started to port Bruno’s Bruce Lee II to the Commodore 64. Almost a year later the game was finished. Even if the game originally looked like a Commodore 64 game it was very difficult to make it run on a real Commodore 64. The reasons are basically that the game contains a lot of features and…
