The BASIC 10-liner contest is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and has just announced the results of this year’s competition. The rules of the contest are simple. You need to write a program in BASIC in just ten lines for an 8-bit computer. There are four categories, which we’ve listed below alongside the winners … BASIC 10-liner celebrates tenth anniversary
Mini consoles have been popular lately, with mini versions of the NES, SNES, Playstation, Commodore 64, Mega Drive and most-recently, the PC Engine doing the rounds. But which system would look the best as a tiny reproduction of its former self? Yes, the Commodore PET is the correct answer. (close second would be the Compucolor … Build your own Commodore PET mini
Intellivision have announced the pack-in games for their upcoming Amico console, and today will give people another chance to pre-order the console, after the fast sell-out of their ‘founder edition’ back in January.Subscribers to the Amico mailing-list will receive pre-order information later today. There will be six games built in to the console. The five … Intellivision announce pack-in games for upcoming Amico, plus another chance for early purchase
King of Fighters 2000 Fanatical are offering a Pick-and-Mix offer on SNK games, such as Metal Slug, King of Fighters, Fatal Fury and Pulsar. You can pick 1 game for $1.00 / £1.00, or any five for $2.99 / £2.99. Once purchased games can be redeemed on GOG.com, and you can find out more about … Get bargain SNK games on GOG with Fanatical PICK-AND-MIX oFFer
Commodore Plus/4 Version The Curse of Rabenstein is a new horror text adventure from Stefan Vogt. The game is available on multiple formats: Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, ZX Spectrum Next, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and should you wish, ‘modern PC’. Vogt has previously released the interactive fiction series, Hibernated, and says … New multi-platform text-adventure, The Curse of Rabenstein, out now
Gaming T-shirt company, Seven Squared, have just launched two t-shirts featuring everyone’s favourite 8-bit egg, Dizzy. A portion of the profits will go towards mental health charity, Safe In Our World.
A Pico-8 coder named ‘thisismypassword’ has managed to create a Channel F emulator in Pico-8. It required the Channel F BIOS files, and Cart ROMs of the games you wish to play, but it does come pre-installed with e5frog’s excellent homebrew version of Pac-Man. A Channel F Emulator running on Pico-8 running in a web … Channel F emulator created for Pico-8 Fantasy console
Game streaming platform, Antstream Arcade have announced they have signed a deal with Taito to add some of its classic games to their online platform. “This partnership will help a new generation discover some of the culture-defining video games that shaped the games industry” commented Tetsu Yamada at Taito. “We’re committed to continuing the legacy … Antstream to add Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble and other Taito classics to its platform
Chronosoft have launched a game on cassette for 16K-expanded ZX81 owners: Tut-Tut, a puzzle-arcade game based around the excavation of Egypt’s pyramids.
Hello Void, self-described as “a small indie shop dedicated to all sorts of tech nostalgia and quirky 90’s inspired design”, have a bunch of enamel pins inspired by computing in the nineties. The pins are “Task Failed Successfully”, “Home Page”, “Winamp” and “Blue Screen of Death” The store also sells clothing and accessories with similar … Hello Void are selling nifty retro Windows pins