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A Chat with ChinnyVision
We had a brief chat to ChinnyVision about his popular Youtube channel.
Based on your Twitter posts you have a lot of affection for the Amstrad CPC - was this your introduction to computing?
Yes. First got to use a CPC 464 at some point in 1985 and we got a CPC 6128 for Christmas 1985.
Did...
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“When watchmakers made computers” – an interview with Kevin Palser on his iOS zx81 emulator
Did you know you can play some ZX81 games on your iPhone? We speak to Kevin Palser about his ZX81 emulator for iOS devices.
We assumed that Palser grew up with a ZX81, hence writing the emulator, but that wasn’t the case at all!
“I never owned a ZX81 whilst growing up” says Palser. “The...
Hewco have launched Cheesy Trials for the expanded VIC-20 on itch.io. The aim of the game is to guide Echo the Mouse through a series of platform puzzles split across three experiments.
“To beat a trial room collect a piece of cheese before the time runs out. You only have 5 seconds to do this...
If you've managed to get your hands on Panic's yellow handheld, Playdate, then you may be interested in Gamekid - an emulator for Game boy games built for the system.
Gamekid was developed by Dustin Mierau and is based on the GB emulator, Peanut GB. As the Playdate is monochrome, the shades of...
Atari are launching three unreleased games as part of their new AtariXP program. The games, which have previously been available on Atari Flashback devices and the Evercade, are now available as an official Atari 2600 Cart.
Each of the three games are available as standard edition, and limited...
Soul of the Beast is an Atari 2600 game inspired by the classic Amiga game, Shadow of the Beast.
The game was previously under working title of Legacy of the Beast and was coded by Michael Christophersson (@aeriflame on Twitter.) and runs on NTSC Atari systems, as well as Stella, Gopher2600...
Overthrown is a new game for the Commdore VIC-20 where you play as the soon to be ex-President of a corrupt state. Leave your palace, grabbing as much money as you can, escape by armoured car, and then get on your private plane to reach your private island.\
The game starts at the...
Available later this month is Acorn – A World In Pixels, a book showcasing the games history of the BBC Micro and Electron.
The book contains 476 pages and featured a foreword by Richard Hanson of Superior Software, and cover illustration by Ste Pickford. Television and radio presenter, Iain...
Feature
20 great Vic-20 homebrew games
Commodore’s VIC-20 is forty years old this year, but that hasn’t stopped people making awesome games for it. If someone had told me, when I was playing Star Battle on my VIC-20 as a child that you would still be able to buy new game cartridges for the Vic forty years later, I would be...
If you had a Commodore Plus/4 then you probably played Icicle Works at some point. It was created by young programmer, Doug Turner, who also went on to make a handful of other games (Fingers Malone, Prospector Pete). Turner is about to launch his first Plus/4 game in nearly 35 years: A sequel to...
Commodore 16 and Plus/4 owners now have a version of Ultimate’s classic Atic Atac to call their own.
Atic Atac was originally launched by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro. In the game, you must search for parts of a key to escape a castle filled with various...
What is it?
The Playdate is a handheld gaming system, that is small enough to fit in your pocket. It’s yellow, features a black and white screen, had a D-Pad, 2 action buttons. Oh, and a winding crank.
The crank doesn’t power the device – it’s a rotational gameplay input device! Like the...
The Macintosh was never really a gaming machine. Sure, there was the big hits like Marathon, Escape Velocity or Myst – the must-have games for Classic Macintosh owners – but there was one game that was probably played by more users of Macintosh System 7.5 than any other: Jigsaw Puzzle.
Jigsaw...
Like most hobbies, Retro Computing comes with its own set of slang, and fan-created nicknames for products. Sometimes they are affectionate, sometimes derogatory – but one things for sure, if you’re new to the hobby you will have no idea what people are talking about!
This document is a...
The Future Was 8-Bit have launched a range of cartridges for the Commodore VIC-20 and C64. The company are also providing a new service to amateur programmers where they will publish their games in cartridge form.
Commodore 64 games
Ms Rodmän
Ms Rodmän is the follow up to last year’s Rodmän –...
Commodore’s VIC 20 has been blessed with a remake of Rock-Ola’s 1982 arcade game, Nibbler!
The aim of the game Nibbler is to guide a snake round a maze eating pellets as you go round. Once you have eaten all the dots you progress to the next level. However, as you eat, the longer you grow — and...
As you might guess from the spelling of colour in the title, I’m from the UK. And in the UK in the eighties only the rich kids had microcomputers with disk drives.
The rest of us made-do with cassette tapes.
And if you collected computer cassette tapes then there is no way you wouldn’t have had...
We first heard about Antstream last year, and it sounded right up our street! Anstream is pretty much “Netflix for retro games”, and offers you the chance to stream and play a whole bunch of retro-games on Windows, Mac, Linux and consoles for a monthly subscription (£9.99 per month, or you can...
AtariAge have launched several new*. cartridges for the Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800 consoles. They say:
"We have now added these new games to the AtariAge Store, and you can order them today! We’ll work hard to make sure any games you order in November will arrive in time for Christmas if you’re...
Sega have launched a Bluetooth Sega Saturn-style controller for use with Android phones and tablets. The controller can be used separate from the phone, or clipped on, to keep them together.
Sega has been releasing its games as part of its Sega Forever collection for some time on Android – so...
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