The Independent (UK) features an article discussing the documentary ‘From Bedrooms To Billions’, showing the birth of game development on the early 80’s. The ‘revolution’ was driven by young people that saw on game development their way to money and success. You can watch ‘From Bedrooms To Billions’ online at frombedroomstobillions.com Link: The Independent
That’s an odd choice, but very interesting nonetheless. Thomas ten Cate decided to try to transfer his old programs from his beloved BBC Micro using QR-Code plotted on screen, and he reports his progress, problems and findings in a series of 6 articles on his personal blog. As he explains, that “most QR codes are fairly small, as they contain…
Retrobattlestations is promoting a 6502 week until the end of January, and to participate you have to send a picture of video of a machine that is powered by a 6502. Here are the rules: To participate in the contest you need to make a new post to RetroBattlestations of a picture or video that you shot of hardware that…
Do you remember Jumper’n Run: Smurf Rescue that we reported here back in Jan 7th? Now, the developer known as ‘hipoonios’ over Abime Amiga Forums received a ‘cease and desist’ letter from the lawyers representing Studio Peyo, the owners of The Smurfs trademark for trademark infringement. We cannot contest the fact that making the game using their intellectual property without…
Gerard Putter has updated his already excellent Apple II emulator for the Apple II. What’s new in version 7.5.2: Fixed an issue that could cause the virtual procesor to get stuck in an endless loop. The right arrow key did not work correctly when used for game control. This has been fixed. Link: Virtual II
Kelticweb Gary has published is The Story of the ZX Spectrum Facebook group a type-in Flappy Bird for the ZX Spectrum. If you are brave enough to revive the rough time of the type-in programs from magazines, here is the listing reproduced here: My Flappybird version for ZX Basic – Enjoy * Anyone hardcore enough to type-in – R-e-s-p-e-c-t! \a…
Head Over Heels is an arcade adventure video game, released in 1987 for several 8-bit home computers, and subsequently ported to a wide range of formats. Now a remake for MSX2 is being developed by FX Software. There are no more details, just a few screenshots showing a great work behind but we are sure it will be a reality…
Now the Apple II fans can claim they are smarter than the average retro computer fan! It was released on Internet Archive a huge set os educational/historical programs. The 4am Collection is a collection of historical software for Apple II computers from the 1980s and early 1990s. Each item was originally copy protected (i.e. the original floppy disk could not…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Baffle 101% +2HF [pal/ntsc], The Last Ninja Demo, Onslaught Intro [Hellfire V4], The Eidolon +6D, Scramble +3 V2, Booter V1.0.3, Scramble +3 V1, EasyFlash 3 USB Utilities V1.8, Scramble, Onslaught Intro, Populous Preview, Cyborg C*Base Patcher V3.0, G.o.Drex, Xain +, Xain, Composition #1. Source: CSDb
On June 27th 2015 there will be a meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to celebrate 30 years of Amiga history. There will be many Amiga computers on display but also the KryoFlux team, Dave Haynie, David Pleasance, Christian Bartsch, István Fábián, Ultimate PPC team, Franck Sauer, Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott. Website: http://fo.hn/amiga30/
