Tag: Retro News
Sprite Castle #28 podcast is out featuring Activision’s game ‘Wonderboy’. The game was released in 1987 for the Commodore 64, ported from the Sega arcade version, which on its turn looks a lot like Mario. If you are curious about the history of this game and get up to speed on other C64 news, download and listen the podcast following…
The article has been written exclusively for Commodore is Awesome/Vintage is The New Old by Eric “Majikeyric” Hilaire, tThe developer of ‘Bug Hunt’, one of the strongest entries on the 2016 RGCD 16K Game Cartridge Competition. In September 2015, I was looking for a little game to port to the Commodore computers (not only to C64 but also Amiga and VIC20). I’m…
Atariage forum lwiest has published an updated version of his reverse-engineered version of Atari Star Raiders on Github. This new update brings small corrections and updates, mostly based on the official game source code also released on Internet Archive. Iwiest’s version also brings an extensive documentation, which is perfect for whoever wants to learn how the game came about. Link: GithubLink:…
Since we have very angry visitors (I am looking at you Commodore community), we don’t do any prank or fake article for April 1st in respect to them. That don’t prevent us from posting something about someone else’s jokes containing a note stating that it is an April fool’s joke, of course. This one came from Apple II Juiced.GS…
People’s imagination has no limits, and when we think we have seen everything in the C64 scene, something new shows up. This is the case of this little C64 game called ‘Dress Up!’, where you basically “play” dressing your model with different clothes, hair style and shoes! For those who are thinking “Is that game for young little girls!?!”, tell me if you…
Wiebo de Wit was quick this time to update his blog with the excellent series “Tetris in 6502 Assembler”. The 10th part of the long article. The subject is the main loop and game modes, like the game over mode. Also, as the author says, the article start to tackle the reuse of code, which is very important when the…
We have been hosting a forum for many years, but with so many good forums around the internet, we assume we never were able to gain regular members, helping to increase the interest. For many months, we’ve been using the Facebook groups more actively, and the results are really amazing, with interesting discussions, news, photos and whatever comes to your…
A quick update from Philippe Lang Dear Backers,Through our last update you already knew that we’ve added support for the Raspberry Pi and Pi2 boards within our 1200 case.We’d like to announce that the case is supporting Till Harbaum’s MiST board as well ;) Till confirmed us that all buttons on the board can be activated from the keyboard, and…
The New Amiga 1200 cases Kickstarter campaign ends in 13 days ! As of today, this campaign has reached 38% of its €125,000 goal. CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE AMIGA 1200 CASE CAMPAIGN! Campaign Goal: Maybe some of you don’t know yet why this goal is set so high, so please allow us to summarize it here: To manufacture new…
Spread the word, let’s get this funded! Only YOU! can make it possible! It’s time for another update regarding Philippe Lang’s Fantastic Amiga A1200 housings Kickstarter! 259 backers, €42,409 pledged of €125,000 goal with 16 days to go!This has got to be one of the most amazing projects to date with Philippe carefully listening to all of your requests and…
