In this episode, Sam (mrsid), Steve (press play on tape) and Paul (the drisk) talk about the history of the budget game kings, Mastertronic. They talk about the key games, milestones in the companies history and there is also a “History of Mastertronic” PDF available. PDF: Mastertronic Book – Retro Asylum.pdfWebsite: http://retroasylum.com
Friday 10h October 2014, 19:00 USRT: GurtyGurt – Radio Awesome – It’s Friday! and time for some more RADIO AWESOME! madness with your favourite Aussie DJ GurtyGurt! Get ready for your favourite Commodore Remixes with a twist of lemon! STRAP IT ON! Listen: SLAYRadioWebsite: Commodore is Awesome, SLAYRadio
I’ve never understood the fascination with the C64. I know it was a sexy beast with a whopping 64 KB of RAM (amazing at the time), but I can’t believe that three decades later people (myself included) are still talking about C64. Some even hold on to these dinosaurs in order to play games — possibly the best graphics and…
After two and a half years of production, ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ the film telling the story of the British Video Games Industry is finally released. From Bedrooms to Billions is a film by Anthony & Nicola Caulfield that tells the story of how the creativity and vision of a relatively small number of individuals allowed the UK to play…
Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on an FPGA version of the Commodore 65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. On his last update, Paul talks about his initial work adding support for sprites. “The focus here is on implementing “normal” C64/C128/C65 sprites for existing software. As such the focus is not on adding new functionality…
Issue 83 of ‘Commodore Free’, the magazine dedicated to Commodore computers is now available for download. The magazine is available in the following formats; PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML, TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image. Website: http://www.commodorefree.com
We’ve been working hard to upload our well-know super-high quality magazine scans to Internet Archive. Although some of the magazines are already available there, they are usually using low definition scans, so we decided that it would be great to have our scans available to more people through archive.org. The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated…
We welcome our new staff member Frank Olvera to Vitno and CiA.Frank has written a new article already which can be found in the articles section of the menu bar. Frank has also written a book ‘Under the Thelian Sky‘ which you can purchase here. Three new Atari ST games have been added to the Atari ST games section. Links page…
ZX-Paintbrush is a tool that allows you to easily create images for the ZX Spectrum, and the new version 2.5 is available for download today. With ZX-Paintbrush, you can load existing or create new SCR (screen files), draw images with mouse-sensitive tools like circles, rectangles, polygons etc. You have different fill styles available in tool boxes and you can alter…
To celebrate 50 years of the BASIC programming language, at this year’s RetroMania there will be a BASIC game programming contest, with cash prizes! You don’t have to go to Zaragoza to participate — just submit your entry by midnight (CET, GMT+1) on the 6th November. Entries from anywhere in the world are welcome. From World of Spectrum Forum: It…
