Tag: 8Bit

BITBITJam 2015 Retro Homebrew Downloads!

BITBITJam is a RetroGame event where people around the world create a game for old hardware in a weekend. This year’s BITBITJam was held from Fri 24 of July to Sun 26 of July, there were some fantastic entries and you can now download all the retro homebrew goodness over at http://bitbitjam.com/#entries. The winner for Best Confronted Kingdoms Game is Les Quizarables…

Bomb Jack DX – C64 Classic Remake, New Third Teaser Video, Power Mode!

After receiving such fantastic exclusive recent News about Sam’s journey wasn’t enough today, we now have even more Exclusive News! yet again from Retrofan! Retrofan has uploaded a third teaser video on his YouTube channel showing Bomb Jack DX’s Power mode! Collect the coins! :) A few words from Retrofan himself.. We found a space–saving solution for the power mode….

Sam’s Journey Update – Sam's Disco Fever!

Another small update for the colourful C64 platformer, Sam’s Journey. Knights of Bytes have released another teaser video titled ‘Sam’s Disco Fever’. On his journey through the strange world, Sam discovers another costume, and this one comes with a twist![fvplayer src=”http://www.vitno.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sams-disco-fever.mp4″ width=”852″ height=”480″]In the first part of today’s video, you can see the beautiful world of Sam’s Journey from a…

Serpent Caves – Commodore Vic-20

Ravenxau released a new game for the Commodore VIC-20. This is the Retro Edition and can be played on a unexpanded VIC-20 with keyboard. The game has 9 levels with 3 serpents on level 1. The levels 7, 8 and 9 are a real challenge. Download: serpretro.tap Forum Thread: Vic-20 Denial

TND Sideways SEUCK Compo 2015 Now LIVE!

Yes! Another brand new C64 competition hosted by TND. This time it’s another SEUCK compo, but this time round the competition supports the Sideways Scrolling S.E.U.C.K editor by Jon Wells. The idea of the competition is simply to create your very own top quality, C64 Sideways scrolling shoot ’em up, with cool graphics, sfx and ideas. So then, do you feel…

Bomb Jack DX – C64 Classic Remake, New Updates & Second Teaser Video!

Retrofan from Forum64 contacted us today to let us know that teaser video number 2 (Beta 1) for ‘Bomb Jack DX’ is now available for our viewing pleasure! Since the last video there has been several updates to the game. Check out the list below! Revised logo New font Now 3 of 5 backgrounds (with working bombs) Bomb’s fuses light…

Aquanoids! New ZX Spectrum Underwater Platformer Final Version Released!

Last week we announced Vitno Exclusive News about the upcoming underwater Speccy platformer called Aquanoids. Today we are excited to announce that the final version has now been released and you can download it here on Vintage is the New Old, from the link below. You can read everything you need to know about this fantastic new game over at…

bathyscaphe by red triangle – ZX Spectrum

Platform: ZX Spectrum Type: Game Release date: August 2015 Release party: Chaos Constructions 2015 Compo: gamedev Ranked: 2nd [youtube W9dCFcMJ3Uw nolink] Code: Jerri Title screen: brightentayle Music: mmcm Download: bathyscaphe_eng.zip Forum Thread: http://zx-pk.ru Website: http://www.pouet.net

Aquanoids! New ZX Spectrum Underwater Platformer Coming Soon!

After more than a month in its development and subsequent testing, we have some fantastic exclusive News from Neil Parsons aka Program Bytes 48k (P.B.48K). A new homebrew ZX Spectrum game is due to be released on Sunday September the 6th called Aquanoids! Currently there is very little information about this game other than it looks to be an interesting…

GadgetUK164 C64 Repair Videos

GadgetUK164 has made a number of repair videos for the Commodore 64. The most recent videos are about CIA problems, looking at faulty chips, PLA repair, SID repair and repairing a missing pin on a SID chip. [youtube tF1R4X037yg nolink]YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/GadgetUK164/videos