Tag: 8Bit
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…
You Say Tomato, I say C128-40! Before I dive into the innards of my CBM 710D and we go spelunking for missing chips, I want to introduce the other computers in the B series. There were actually three main variants of this line of computers: The high-profile version with the integrated monitor. The video chip in the high profile machines…
Ah, Retro Challenge… The most optimistic challenge ever created: get a bunch of people to complete a project about old computers, in one month. Let’s set aside the question of how likely it is that your average retro tinkerer actually completes any of the 20+ “projects” they inevitably have going. (Hint: they’re called “tinkers”, not “gods of the retroverse” for a…
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…
The Bear Essentials is a collect-em-all platform game, released by Pond Software in December 2016. It was developed single-handedly by Graham Axten. The story is, that you are a bear that has been lazy for most of the summer, and that does not suit mama bear! She orders you out into the dangerous nature to collect over 300 apples for…
Headache is a platform game developed by Andrew Bailey and Jon Menzies, and released by Firebird in 1984. You are in control of Ned. He is the janitor of the head, and his job is to transport impulses between the nerve centers, the brain and the neck. There are of course some foes in place who see to it, that…
Our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64, contacted us this evening and has sent over some fantastic Exclusive News! about the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Retrofan has uploaded a new Beta 3 video to his YouTube channel and as you can see, the game is coming along nicely. First thing you will notice, beta3 has some amazing new…
The AVS from retroUSB is one of the most compatible and accurate NES clones on the market. Powered by an FPGA chip allowing the device to very closely mimic the hardware on an actual Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom. The system is compatible with original NES controllers and runs original NES cartridges. More details and video review below. Video: 720p wide screen HDMI output,…
Retrofan from Forum64 once more contacted us to let us know that a new video featuring Bomb Jack DX beta 2 is available on YouTube and you can watch it here. It looks simply awesome! There are a lot of improvements since our last post on last September. The current version has 4 out of 5 backgrounds almost complete, the p-coin can…
‘Alan Sugar – The Amstrad Story’ was published in 1991 to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the flotation of Amstrad. This book tells of Alan Sugar’s rise from selling car aerials from the back of a van in the East End at 21, to become, according to Rupert Murdoch, probably Britain’s greatest entrepreneur and one of the richest men…