Tag: Retro Gaming
Lachlan Keown released a new version of his Retro Game Asset Studio (RGAS). With RGAS you can design various asset types (sprites, sound / music, levels) for different retro computers (Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum). It is a cross-development tool, which runs on the .NET runtime under Windows and with Mono it can be used under Linux, too. It is…
Spanish homebrew developers The Mojon Twins are back with yet another free release – this time a port of a ZX Spectrum game from 2005 known as Moggy. Your goal in each screen is getting each one of your pink friends, avoiding touching the green bushes. You can download the game following the link below. Download: Mojo Twins Source: RetroCollect
ABBUC 2015 software development contest is over, and now you can download Toy’Swap, a match-gems type of game developed for the Atari 8-bit. The developer explains to Atariteca that even relying on modern cross-compilers and emulators for the development, the game took him about 99 sessions with some of them ranging from 2 to 5 hours of development to be…
EmaC=s is an alternate screen editor for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 with the Emacs bindings. Another nice thing about this editor is that it is made in Assembler and the source code is available on Github. Even if you are not an Emacs user, it might be very educative check the source code. Link: Github
Engadget has published an extensive article about the Nintendo Playstation, which first appeared back in July. A lot of people were skeptical about the Frankenstein machine equipped with CD-ROM and SNES cartridge slot. Could it be real? Well, it is! “The “Nintendo PlayStation” is now the stuff of gaming legend, with reportedly only about 200 prototypes ever produced. But, as…
Eidothea – The Daughter of Protheus is the newest entry for the SEUCK Sideways Competition 2015, released today. Developed by Errazking and music by Richard Bayliss, the game follows the traditional Sideways shooter. The graphics are good, but the sound effects are the highlight of the game. Unfortunately, the collision handling is far from perfect and sometimes you can see you can fit in…
Imagine a game like Legend of Zelda, Gauntlet, Demon Stalkers, and Druid. That is Wizard Saga for the Commodore 64. A modern comparison would be The Binding of Isaac as well, with a very similar game play. The author, OnlineProfessor2010, has been releasing previews of the game since last September. This new version B, released on Nov 4th, contains several updates,…
A new version of Sugarbox, a new Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows, was released. The main feature of the new version is the support of online libraries like CPC-Power and Amstrad.eu. Another interesting feature is the support for black frame insertion, which will provide a smooth scrolling on 100hz capable displays. Source: Octoate.de
#CPCRetroDev 2015 has ended with one of the greatest results in years for all the Amstrad community. A total of 35 games were presented, and most of them being really high quality. The winner is ‘Space Moves’, followed by Frogalot and Top Top. For the CPC retro gamers out there, this is a very long list of amazing games to…
Atariage’s “mariuszw” & team has released his new game – The Great Escape, ported from the C64 version which was published by Ocean 1986, along with the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions. As we all know, the game’s objective is to help the hero, a war prisoner, to escape from a German camp. The gaming environment is displayed in isometric 2.5D…
