Tag: 8-bit
The 6502 Workshop team is pleased to announce that the Kickstarter campaign for the boxed edition of Nox Archaist is now live! Click here to pledge! What’s better than a brand new, hand-coded 8-bit classic 80s era tile based RPG? Answer: One that comes in an awesome collector’s edition box with lots of cool physical goodies! What’s even better than that? When…
Downloadable preview of the C64 classic shines on the Atari 8-bit lineup!
Fans of the eagerly awaited ZX Spectrum Next will be excited to learn that the very first commercial game for the ‘Next’ generation of Spectrum has launched and is now available for purchase over at softwareamusements.com. Viewed from a top-down perspective, Adrian Cummings Dungeonette bares the hallmark of all good dungeon crawlers, requiring the player to tackle an increasingly deadly…
By 1993, the Sega Master System was definitely a machine in decline. Having been supplanted by Sega’s own 16-bit Mega Drive console four years previously, and with the 32-bit Saturn console and 32X expansion due in the not-too-distant future, the future for the 8-bit Master System looked suitably bleak. Fortunately, there was still enough of fan base in certain territories…
In the first of a series of articles, we’ll take a trip down memory lane as I take you through some of the computing and gaming experiences of childhood, taking in the 8-bit scene, the Commodore Amiga and much more! In this issue, I’ll be taking look at my earliest computing experiences with the Commodore Plus/4! Many people get asked…
There is still time to join Richard Garriott and Rebecca Heineman in playing Nox Archaist and get your hands on all the awesome feelies! http://kickstarter.noxarchaist.com “I greatly look forward to exploring this realm!” –Lord British, Creator of Ultima “I can’t wait to play this game on my Apple IIgs!” –Rebecca Heineman, Creator of Bards Tale III Click here to back…
Version 2.90 of the Atari 8-bit system emulator Altirra has been released. Altirra is a high-quality, cycle-exact emulator for the Atari 400/800, 1200XL, 600/800XL, 130XE, XEGS, and 5200 systems. Altirra runs on Windows XP-SP3 or higher and also runs quite well under Wine on Linux. New features include: 65C816 CPU speed can now be changed on the fly without a…
Alex Zaikin has created a replica of Mikro-80, an early ’80s Soviet 8-bit computer whose designs were published in the magazine “Radio”. The Mikro-80 had a very large chip count (approx. 200) and was very difficult to build. Consequently, it was not a popular machine. It used the KR580VM80A CPU (which was a clone of the Intel 8080), sported 64kB…
farvardin from WOS Forum has composed (and recorded) some music entirely for the ZX Spectrum beeper. Inspired from metal and melancholic, it’s not your usual happy chiptunes most people are a custom to. However it’s a nice refreshing change to see it done in a different way. You can download it for free in MP3, FLAC format and more. The…
Driar is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom written by Stefan Adolfsson and David Eriksson. Rickard Nilsson helped out in early development. The game is designed for PAL (50Hz) systems, but works well on NTSC (60Hz) systems as well. The game and music will however play a bit faster on a NTSC system.Objective Take control of Driar and…
