Tag: Retro News
Knights originally a PC game has been ported to your rubber keyed friend the ZX Spectrum. The game has eighty-two levels in which you have to follow the rules of chess. However this is far from the real game of chess, although you do use knight pieces (the horse for non chess fans). Reading Planeta Sinclair’s review, the game seems…
Steel Jeeg is a new AGD game by Francesco Forte. There are many excellent Arcade Game Designer games out there, titles such as Monty’s Honey Run by Andy Johns, Foggys’s Quest by John Blythe and Ooze, also by Andy Johns. With a lot of time, effort and perseverance, you can create a really fantastic game using this engine. Most of…
After the massive success of Chris Wilkins Crash Annual 2018, we see another Kickstarter Project on the Horizon. This time it’s one for all you Breadbin fans out there! Zzap! 64 Annual 2019 Kickstarter will go live from the 27th April, and just like the previous Speccy annual, expect all the awesome perks, mugs, t-shirts and pin badges etc. This…
Retro Asylum, Episode 179 has been released. Steve Erickson & Mads Kristensen talk to Juan J. Martinez about his most recent games and how it is to develop modern games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64. Listen: Retro Asylum Podcast, Episode 179 Website: retroasylum.com
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of VirtualC64. VirtualC64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Mac OS X. New in Version 1.8 The Keyboard Manager has been reworked. In the keyboard menu, you can now choose between symbolic and position-based assignment. When using symbolic key assignment, the emulator tries to map a pressed key using its ASCII representation. Up…
Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. Episode 12.1, Łukasz Kucharuk interview is now available to listen and download. Download: Amiga-Ireland-S01E12.1-Luke-Kucharuk.mp3 Website: amigausers.ie
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 2018-03-17. 2018-03-17 new: Megademo 4 (Kefrens & 7up Crew) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2018-03-16 new: Megademo 5 (Kefrens) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2018-03-12 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) added quit key and intro skip to the OCS version of…
Barbarian, The Ultimate Warrior by Palace Software was first released for the Commodore 64, back in 1987. Later on it was also ported to the Amstrad CPC, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II and MS-DOS. The developers licensed the game to Epyx, who published it as Death Sword in the United States. In the game’s…
A few days ago, Allan Turvey kindly sent me over the “ZX81 Birthday Edition” of his awesome ZX Spectrum game Roust. Roust is a ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. You can read more about Allan’s game in our previous posts here. The new birthday edition, is pretty much the same game, except it’s been skinned over…
Beta 3 of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been just been released today. For more information check through our older posts about the game here. Download: bombjack_beta_3.adf Previous Posts: Bomb Jack Beer Edition
