Tag: Retro Gaming

2015 Re-cap: Best Videos, Feedback & Shout-outs – It's a Pixel Thing! Ep.#76

It’s a Pixel Thing had many good shows throughout the year. The host, Pedro Loureiro has prepared a special show with the best of 2015. It is 15 minutes with the best of the best he put together during 2015. Enjoy! [youtube 51kfRj0bkyY nolink] Link: YouTube

Three Atari 8-bit games source code have been released

Following the interview with Russ Wetmore on Antic Podcast, Kevin Savetz has published with the author’s authorization, the source code of Preppie, Preppie II and Sea Dragon. Preppie is a Frogger-like game with some variations, and Preppie II is a Maze game (still with frogs!). Sea Dragon is a side-scroller submarine game (imagine R-Type under the sea). All three games…

RetroPie: Getting the C64 emulator to start in BASIC

James “CritAnime” Parkinson‎ has published a very detailed tutorial teaching how to setup a Raspberry PI with RetroPie distribution and make the Commodore 64 emulator boot in BASIC, turning you PI in a *true* Commodore machine! He starts with “I love my Raspberry Pi. I think it is one of the best computer systems people can buy. It is cheap….

2015 Commodore 64 Sideways SEUCK Compo has a winner!

The 2015 Sideways SEUCK compo came to an end. Although counting only with three contestants, the competition was fierce due to the high quality of all three games. With 79 votes the winner is PAN!, followed by U-91306 Eidothea with 76 votes. The third place, grabbing 72 votes, was Edge of Time. I shot three short videos of the gameplay of all…

Relearning MSX Programming – Latest Updates

Lavadeira.net has a long-run series of articles teaching C Programming for the MSX machines. These are the latest articles: #40: Functions in MSX-C (Part 1) Functions. Declarations, definitions and externs. How to define functions that don’t take parameters. Functions declared locally inside other functions. #39: Graphic characters and additional quoted symbols The MSX graphic characters and the 2-byte sequences to…

WHDLoad: The Amiga’s Secret Weapon

WHDLoad is a software package for the Amiga platform to make installation of software to a hard disk easier, for such things as demos or games. Recently it was announced that WHDLoad is now free which certainly brought more attention to it. Timely, the ByteCellar Blog has published a good introduction to WHDLoad. It is a must read and an…

Another Retro Scene Loss – Amstrad CPC Push'n'Pop website is gone

Push’n’Pop is known by the Amstrad demoscene for many years bringing articles and news related to the platform. Despite the sad news, the website shows a humorous message explaining what happened: Based on the message above, it seems Push’n’Pop team wasn’t very careful with their backup and because of their inability to bring the site back, it is gone for…

DurexForth V1.4.5 – Forth Language for the Commodore 64

Our favorite Forth implementation, DurexForth, has released a new version 1.4.5. These are the changes: forth: / now uses floored signed division forth: bugfix for negative number parsing (2- was interpreted as -20) forth: made 2/ sign-extend negative numbers forth: added spaces source >in 2over 2swap m+ m* sm/rem fm/mod dabs dnegate s>d forth: changed word order of double-cell integers…

Important people who shaped the TI 99/4A World – Scott Adams

“Important people who shaped the TI 99/4A World” blog on Atariage is talking about Scott Adams, the genius behind many Text adventure games  was brought up in Miami Florida. In 1975 he wrote a computer game on a computer that his brother Richard built a year before, making him the first person on earth to write a computer game on a home…

Yape 1.0.8 – New version of the Commodore Plus/4 Emulator

YAPE is Plus/4 emulator. It’s being developed for 10+ years by now and it is available in Windows as well as multiplatform editions. It was just released a new version of the emulator running on Windows. It is a minor incremental update to 1.0.7 with the following changes: GUI fix SID fixes drive RPM fix autostart randomization fix For other…