Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights

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…

Vitno Updates

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,…

Relearning MSX #15: MSX-C commands: CG.COM

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

8Bit Flip – Saturday 4th April and Sunday 5th April

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…

Meet Alice, the Amstrad PCW-16

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…

Street Fighter II Has Been Ported To The Nintendo Virtual Boy

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,…

Retro Computing Roundtable Episode 94

The new episode of RCR, with the participation of Jack Nutting (hosting), Earl Evans, Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, and Carrington Vanston, brings lots of memories about Radio Shack, its iconic TRS-80 family of computers, and much more. Link: RCR

Revision 2015

Book right now your Easter week-end! Revision 2015 is coming! What is Revision?Revision is the world’s biggest pure Demoscene event with visitors from more than 30 countries and features lots of competitions – code for all available platforms, compose music, draw or animate beautiful graphics – there’s something for everybody! Revision takes place from April 3rd to 6th 2015 in…

HuCast Games Release 'Alice's Mom's Rescue' On Sega Dreamcast

[youtube 46QdZmUs6fE nolink] Alice’s Mom’s Rescue is the first homebrew release for Sega’s 128-bit console this year, an expansive platformer with a traditional pixel-art style – one which is now available to buy in both standard and limited editions. Already available for both PC and Android, the newly arriving Sega Dreamcast version comes in two flavours – Standard and Limited…

'Steel Assault' Kickstarter campaign is almost over and needs you!

[youtube 0GQgkz7xAU0 nolink] Steel Assault Kickstarted campaign has 20 hours to go, and it is still behind its goal. The game is 2D action platformer for PC, in the style of a late NES game. The game mainly focuses on close combat, but the player is also equipped with a variety of different weapons. Its aesthetic is inspired by late…