Tag: Retro Gaming
Rowan wakes in the dungeons stunned and disorientated….. but he begins to remember… Along of this game, you will see how the main character Rowan: a small elf child has to go through hundreds of obstacles and destroy powerful magicians and terrible creatures to rescue his family and friends, and save our world from the darkness. In addition to this,…
Part 11 of this “best-seller” blog post series is out, bringing more of his Tetris game coding with 6502 Assembler. Wiebo de Wit mentioned on his post that his code has changed so much during his process to write the article that he decide to only talk about the highlights. These are the changes he will cover: Modified the input…
Waimanu Scary Monsters Saga is an unofficial fan-made game based on Sega’s own Pengo, released back in 1982. Disjointed Studio, a homebrew developer, has released this new title for the Sega Master System which is the third release in the Waimanu series. [youtube czDBR_bG_pw nolink] With 32 levels spanning 4 stages showing amazing graphics, this game is a must have for…
Life on Mars is a new game by Kai Magazine, an MSX2 action-platformer game that features good graphics and music. The game will be released as a 512KB megarom cartridge. The requirements are MSX2 or higher with at least 128KB RAM/128KB VRAM (OPL4/MOONSOUND version) or 64KB RAM/128KB VRAM (FM-PAC/MUSIC MODULE version). You can check the game watching the video below….
Retrocomputaria is a Brazilian retro-computing podcast and blog. The podcast is really interesting and funny and I recommend to those who speak Portuguese. For the rest of the people that don’t, you can enjoy this holiday special episode playing ‘Gradius Ultimate Collection’ released by Konami in 2011. List of the tunes: Morning Music Beginning Of The History Challenger 1985 Beat Back…
This is the second part of Ricardo’s article showing techniques to disassemble 6502 code using Redare, a modern tool that allows disassembling code in several different platforms. On this part, the author will show how to crack BC’s Quest For Tires since its copy-protection is easy to bypass. Viewer discretion is advised – Strong 6502 coding throughout the article! Link: Retro.Moe
Lupo Alberto is a game developed in Italy that has been published by Idea for the Commodore 64 in 1990, and Amiga in 1991. Amiga Power magazine game to the Amiga version a 78% score. The magazine review summarizes well the game as a “cut down Super Mario Bros. A scrolling, platform based landscape is patrolled by creatures with different intelligence and…
It’s a Pixel THING Youtube show talks about how the publishers used to sell their games back in the 80s: Cover art, magazine adverts and posters! In the 80s, and even early 90s, graphics weren’t, at all, the selling point of a videogame. Covers and adverts on magazines were! Let’s take a look at some examples on how to sell…
Released last October, the Amiga special GoodGame show tells the story of the Amiga in a very nice production. Good Game is an Australian television gaming programme produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The feature goes over the main games that help make the Amiga the greatest game computer of that time (maybe even today!). If you haven’t watched…
Arthur Jordison has released the version 3.6.0 of his great Commodore all-around IDE which is, in my opinion, the best IDE for Commodore platform for Windows. New features in this version: General editing improvements (select to end, screen etc). Comment blocks. Debugger now shows effective address of next instruction. Assembler: Reporting of page boundary crossings for branching instructions. Choose character…
