Tag: Digital Antiquarian

Christmas Gift from 'The Digital Antiquarian'

December 25, 2015 0 Comments on Christmas Gift from 'The Digital Antiquarian'
Posted in Acorn News, Amstrad CPC, Apple News, Atari News, BBC Micro, Commodore News, Games Consoles, News, Retro Computing History, Retro Gaming, Scene News

I’ve been enjoying reading the Digital Antiquarian blog articles for a while. They are aways very well written and informative about the history of video game. Jimmy Maher Jimmy Maher announced that he is releasing for free a set of eBooks from a compilation of his old articles. There are currently 8 ebooks available in epub or mobi (Kindle) formats. All…

'Dungeon Master' – The Making of

December 18, 2015 0 Comments on 'Dungeon Master' – The Making of
Posted in Apple News, Atari News, Commodore Amiga, Commodore News, Games Consoles, MS-DOS, MSX, NES, Nintendo News

Dungeon Master was originally developed for the Atari ST by FTL Games, and later ported for the Amiga, Apple IIGS, PC, SNES, TurboGrafx-CD, Sharp X68000 and PC-9801. The game established several new standards for RPG and video games in general. Jimmy Maher, The Digital Antiquarian, has published to articles about the game. The first one talks about the development of the game and the…