Tag: Retro Gaming
Veteran developers Swivel Creations have partnered with London based Lu Studios to bring the classic 80’s game BOUNDER to mobile which is set for release in the first quarter 2018. The owner of Swivel Matt Risley has a big background in games stretching back to 1991 and this year contacted Ian Stewart, ex-Gremlin Graphics owner (UrbanScan) and negotiated a deal…
Gabriele Amore has released a new Speccy game called Crazy Kong Episode II, Saving Kong. The game is his entry for the ZX-Dev competition and was created with AGD (Arcade Game Designer). The game instantly reminded me of the 1986 Arcade title Rampage, a classic in it’s own right. However the gameplay is very different to Rampage, where you climbed and…
Hi retro gaming people, we are “The Retro Shed!” and we’re also very excited to be contributors to Vintage Is The New Old, so thanks to the team for inviting us to take part! We are a family based in Worcestershire who adore all things gaming and computing, the older the better, and we have a shed dedicated to the…
WinUAE Beta 18 Released! (Final version: next week, possibly.) – Added real CHS-only IDE drive HDF imaging support that works with some (single? all?) USB adapters that don’t natively support CHS only drives (Drive appears as having zero byte capacity in Windows Disk Manager and SCSI READ CAPACITY returns FFFFFFFF00000200) Imager first asks for drive’s CHS geometry and then uses…
Fantastic Dizzy Superior by Łukasz Kur is a large-scale rom hack of “The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy” that changes and adds many features of the original game. It pays homage to both past and (possibly) future Dizzy titles while attempting to remain faithful to the look and feel of the original. Main Features: -3 slot save system -“Red” and “Blue” original…
Bobby Carrot is a video game series developed and published by German company FDG Mobile Games. The series currently consists of five games, all originally developed for mobile phones. Couvej over at zx-dev-conversions.proboards.com has released a demake for the ZX Spectrum Dev Compo. Collect all the carrots while avoiding the spike traps, once you have completed this, head for the…
Highway Sprint by Erik Hogan has been updated to Prototype 2. More scenery, faster scrolling, deadlier traffic, fixes for graphical glitches on certain configurations. Art by Pixel, code by Erik Hogan, music by Simone Bernacchia. Download: HighwaySprint.zip Website: earok.net Source: eab.abime.net
WinUAE Beta 17 Released! – Added Profex HD3300 emulation and boot ROM. – Fixed rounding issue in D3D11 mode screen position calculation. (Single pixel offset in some situations) – 68040+ “cycle exact” could have appear hung if all running code and data fit in caches. – Geometry file parsing memory free bug fix. – Interlace artifact removal last flickering line…
Way back in May 2015 we announced a new game port called Duck Out (2D side-scrolling beat’em up). Duck Out was first released for the MSX and ZX Spectrum in 1989 by Dro Soft. The player controls a cartoon duck with a frying pan, who escapes from a restaurant and heads to the local park to meet his date with…
Mariusz Wojcieszek and Terrence Derby have ported the ZX Spectrum cult classic ‘Jack the Nipper’ (1986, Gremlin Graphics) over to the Atari 8-bit. For the few of you that have never played this game, Jack the Nipper is loosely based on the British comic strip character Sweeny Toddler. ..and so the story goes, Jack was tired of all the wimps…
