The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2015 – CSSCGC for short (!?!) is now on. If you want to participate, the entries can be submitted until the last minute of the last day of this year – Thursday 31st December 2015, at 23:59:59. According to the organizer’s website, the CSSCGC is an annual competition designed to showcase two things – the…
I’ve downloaded the free ebook ‘It’s behind you – The making of a computer game’ by Bob Pape a while ago, but I never got around to actually read it. If you haven’t heard of it, the book was released in 2013 and it tells the story of the making of the ZX Spectrum port of R-Type. This weekend I…
Rob Hubbard has created a new Facebook page called ‘Project Hubbard’.Not much other info is on the page currently, however the domain http://www.projecthubbard.com has also been created and is waiting for content to appear soon?Is it possible we are going to be lucky enough to experience a new Rob Hubbard album release? Also posted on the Facebook page on the…
Amiga News, after reaching Cloanto for clarification, has published that Cloanto’s Michael Battilana confirmed that the company owns the copyrights for all works created by the Commodore/Amiga companies up to 1993. “The combination of the multiple agreements makes Cloanto the rights holder of not just any Amiga related products and media, but also the system software, documentation, Commodore-owned publications, videos…
Amiga News, after reaching Cloanto for clarification, has published that Cloanto’s Michael Battilana confirmed that the company owns the copyrights for all works created by the Commodore/Amiga companies up to 1993. “The combination of the multiple agreements makes Cloanto the rights holder of not just any Amiga related products and media, but also the system software, documentation, Commodore-owned publications, videos…
It’s been a while since we posted an update, we been working very hard in the Vitno vaults adding bits and pieces and getting things together for something big happening in the upcoming months. In the meantime why not check our 13 newest reviews that have just been added to the game reviews page! Missile Command, Boot Hill, Donkey Kong,…
The Code Generator (CG) is responsible to take the intermediate code generated by CF (the TCO file we saw in the previous posts), and create the assembler source code for our program. Lavandeira tells you everything about it on this new article of the series “Relearning MSX”. Link: Lavandeira
Lostock Sports & Social Club, Works Lane, Northwich CW9 7NW Northern Lights Pinball and Arcade Club will be jointly running a pinball and arcade show this Easter Bank Holiday Weekend, Saturday 4th April and Sunday 5th April, at Lostock Sports & Social Club in Northwich. This event will feature a mixture of video gaming and pinball machines to fully re-create…
Alan Cox has published in Google+ an article showing off the Amstrad PCW-16, which is, according to him, a superb example of bad marketing and design. “The machine was a complete and total flop. The IDE version never happened and Amstrad ended up offloading them for peanuts to anyone dumb enough to buy one.” To read the full article, follow…
If you are one of the two that owned a Virtual Boy in the past, this news will certainly excite you! Back then, Street Fighter II, after launching on the SNES has been ported practically to almost every existing game machine including the monochrome Game Boy. Nintendo’s own Virtual Boy was probably the only one that didn’t get its version,…
