Jim Orlando has recreated Nintendo’s classic platform arcade game, Donkey Kong, for the Commodore PET, as PETSCII Kong. He says “Move your character around four different playing screens. Jump all the obstacles that Kong throws your way. Reach your princess. For the Commodore PET/CBM 2001, 3032, 4032, 8032. Uses its monochrome screen and PETSCII graphics. … How high can you PET? Donkey Kong comes to Commodore’s 1977 computer
Retro-themed T-shirt retailer, Seven Squared, have added two new California Games t-shirts to its collection. California Games is a sports video game developed and published by Epyx in 1987. It was released for several platforms, including the Atari Lynx, Commodore 64, Apple II, Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, and many others. California Games was part … Seven Squared add new California Games T-Shirts to range
If you want to take a look at the source code for the version of Microsoft BASIC that came with Wales’ most famous computer then you’re in luck. This GitHub repository contains the source code for the Dragon 64 versions of the Microsoft 16K BASIC Interpreter for the Motorola 6809 (aka BASIC-69 and Extended Color … Source code for Microsoft BASIC for the Dragon 64 available on GitHub
We’ve moved the site back to WordPress after a few years of being on Xenforo – (I thought it would be fun to have a forum, but no-one seems to use forums any more, so back to WP! If you do use forums, we’ve made a big list of retro computing/ retro gaming forums here) … Site update
The Future was 8-bit are launching an update to their popular VIC-20 cartridge, the Penultimate. Features include: 0-35K Configurable RAM Expansion Games, lots of them! The entire TFW8b VIC collection plus many more. Including some exclusives titles and classics. With 200ish built in games listed by A-Z & Category – (SHIFT+LETTER is your friend!) Spoilt … TFW8bit’s Penultimate+2 cartridge for VIC-20 available to pre-order
1nvader, the one button game inspired by Space Invaders has been ported to the Oric, by raxiss (part of the team who produced the excellent Wizard’s Lair) The game, which was originally coded by Darren Foulds on the Commodore 64, has also been ported to the Atari 8-bits, Arduboy, Channel F and Intellivision. You can see a video of the gameplay … 1nvader gets Oric port by raxiss
The Amiga has been blessed with some top quality arcade ports in recent months (as an example, take a look at Xevious), and now we’ve got a few more with the classic shooter, Galaxian and bartender simulator, Tapper. Galaxian 500 Like Xevious, Galaxian was transcoded, which means that the original code was disassembled and reverse-engineered, … Amiga gets two new unofficial Arcade ports: Tapper and Galaxian
PuttyCAD have ported the 2012 match-three Android game, Clone Zoo to the ZX Spectrum. “In order to make sure our beloved animals never go extinct Professor Plumbob came up with a rapid cloning system. Unfortunately the Zooplicator 9000 he invented has been having a few teething problems and he forgot to install an off … New match-three game for the Speccy: Clone Zoo ZX
Blaze have announced their latest Game of the Month: Big2Small is a Game Boy Color puzzle game by MDSteele, and was also published by RetroRoom Games on the Dreamcast and N64. The concept behind Big2Small is simple. Three animals — Elle the Elephant, Gisele the Goat and Melanie the Mouse — are hungry, and it’s … New Evercade Game of the Month: Big2Small
Last night, Blaze unveiled their first Evercade Showcase, which outlined the upcoming new cartridges for the console. Despite two of the cart announcements (Piko and Sydney Hunter) previously being leaked by a retailer launching their product pages too early, there was still plenty of surprises from Blaze. Including the leaked cartridges, six new carts were … Duke Nukem, Sunsoft, Flashback, Another World, Sydney Hunter and more to come to Evercade