Make: Magazine has published in its last printed issue (3D Printers) and article about the Altair 8800, written by Forrest M. Mims III, one of the founders of MITS – Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, creator of the Altair. Now the article is available online at Make website (link at the bottom) where you can read about the company that…
MSX Calamar announced a new MSX-BASIC programming contest and a new MSX magazine. Everyone around the world can participate and have until the 30th of September of 2015 to finish the program (games, utilities, etc), which can be written from the MSX(1) to TurboR. There will be prizes for the winners. Programs submitted for the contest will be published in…
GameMaker is a tool that allows the creation of video games using drag and drop action sequences or a sandboxed scripting language known as Game Maker Language. YoYo Games has published in its blog, the first part of an article showing the work to create a Commodore 64 emulator using its game creation tool. If you are interested on learning…
The #msxdev Compo is an MSX software competition in which all sorts of MSX software are allowed. This year, it yielded two new games: Pointless Fighting by Baka-Yo! Softcorp – a technically impressive fighting game – and Mr. Balloon by Mapax – a fun little dexterity game in which you guide a balloon through mazes. Both games can be downloaded…
Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32, a multi-pass 6502 65c02 and 65c816 cross assembler for Windows. Merlin 32 is a multi-pass Cross Assembler running under Windows targeting 8-bit processors in the 6502 series (such as 6502 and 65c02) and the 16 bit 65c816 processor. It has been successfully used to re-assemble classic Apple IIgs games and utilities such as Rastan,…
The Greek printed magazine “Retro Planet” has 52 coloured pages and is published every three months. Issue 6 (Front page) includes a Neo-Geo-special, an article about the both Memotech-computers MTX500 and MTX512, the MorphOS-ports of Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy as well as the Amiga CD³². Website: http://www.retroplanet.gr
[youtube bhuQ7SE3a30 nolink] FinalBurn Alpha emulates diverse arcade machines and game consoles. The latest version requires version 2 of the BoostyGFX-library (OS4Depot). This one requires a new key-file. This way you have to remove a previous RegBoostyGFX.key from the directory SYS:s. Website: http://hunoppc.amiga-projects.net
[youtube iuluRQv2iQU nolink] Smurf Rescue developed by Mikael Persson (know as Hipoonios) is a Jump’n Run game created with Backbone. The game requires a 68030-processor and 4 MB Fast-RAM. Download ADF Version: Smurf_Rescue_by_Hipoonios.adfDownload LHA Archive (for HD installs) Smurf_Rescue_by_Hipoonios.lhaWebsite: http://www.hipooniosamigasite.org
880 Gamer is an English pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this magazine the following articles: News, Cover Disk, Game On: Desert Strike, Cadver, The Settlers, Populus, Super Skidmarks Plus and Iso Mia. Bleeding Eyes: Flower Power, The Engine and Dose. Cheat and Talk Back. Website: http://www.users.on.net/~stanners/
[youtube 8XyegGksjxg nolink] Stian Søreng has a working version of his C64FC Flash cartridge for the Commodore 64. The cartridge will emulate an 8 kByte EPROM, but you can program the cartridge from your PC. The C64FC has a ATmega16 micro controller for the USB communication and a IDT7005 RAM chip for the emulation of the 8 kByte EPROM. Website:…
