James Monkman aka Heavy Stylus from RGCD website has given us exclusive heads up on two awesome Commodore 64 titles releases. Rocket Smash EX is available to purchase now and Gravitrix has not been released yet and price has not been finalised, but should be similar-ish pricing to Rocket Smash. Both will be available initially on cartridge then on disk…
[youtube kp3lKhTlZWA nolink] RetroCollect has reported the release of a new game for the Amiga. Homebrew Commodore Amiga developer Hukka recently released a downloadable disk image of his efforts to bring the popular puzzle-em-up Solomon’s Key to the Amiga platform. The game was originally published on the Nintendo NES (known as Fire ‘n Ice in North America). Source: RetroCollect
[youtube kp3lKhTlZWA nolink] RetroCollect has reported the release of a new game for the Amiga. Homebrew Commodore Amiga developer Hukka recently released a downloadable disk image of his efforts to bring the popular puzzle-em-up Solomon’s Key to the Amiga platform. The game was originally published on the Nintendo NES (known as Fire ‘n Ice in North America). Source: RetroCollect
ZEsarUX is a Sinclair ZX Machines Emulator for Unix, supporting ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum and Z88. It run on all *nix flavours (tested on Linux x86, Linux x86_64, Linux Raspbian, Mac OS X). The new version 2.0 includes several new features and bug fixes, including: Added Cambridge Z88 emulation Added Real audio tape loading on ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81 (.rwa,…
For 32 years, the smallest implementation of a chess game would run on a ZX-81. Back in 1983, the Your Computer Magazine had the 672-bytes program listed in its February issue, and the same program held the world record for 32 years. Geek.com has published yesterday an article showing that the world record was broken by a chess game called…
It was launched on AtariAge forum a new “BASIC Ten-Liners Contest”. If you are not an Atari guy/(gal?), don’t worry. This year the competition is way more open, both in terms of legal systems, as well as with regard to authorized BASIC dialects. You can code your Ten-liner using your beloved Atari 8-Bit, Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and Schneider CPC….
Friday 30th January 2015, 19:00 USRT: Gurt – Radio Awesome Sunday 1st February 2015, 11:00 USRT: Gazoo and Phil – PMPVsTokyo Saturday 7th February 2015, 19:00 USRT: SLAY Staff with ROTY Awards 2014 Saturday 14th February 2015, 19:00 USRT: Boz – BBB Valentine’s Massacre Source: http://www.slayradio.org
It was released moments ago a new interview made by the good people at Antic – The Atari 8-bit podcast. This time they interviewed Ihor Wolosenko, co-founder of Synapse software, the company that brought us SynFile and SynCalc, and an amazing list of games including Blue Max, Zeppelin, Fort Apocalypse, Alley Cat and Shamus. And Nautilus, and Rainbow Walker, and…
This episode features Atari Family Finances as released by Atari in 1982. This software was originally released in 1981 through APX as Family Cash Flow and Family Budget. It was written by Jerry Falkenhan. The Inverse ATASCII podcast discusses productivity software, hardware that supports productivity, and modern life with vintage Atari computers. Link: Inverse Atascii
When Kevin Savetz is not hosting the Antic Atari Podcast, he keeps himself busy as the most active Atari archivist, with several contributions that are all uploaded to Internet Archive. Today he posted on AtariAge forum a list of great “probably-never-seen” Atari material, as well as a “silly video created by Atari customer service employees around Christmas 1981. It was…
