Amaurote is an isometric action games that was written by Binary Design and published by Mastertronic in 1987. It was released for the ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit, Amstrad CPC and MSX. It was also released for the C64, but it wasn’t isometric in style, but top-down view. However, 35 years later, Elysium64, have remedied this, … Amaurote gets a more accurate C64 version after 35 years
Sarah Jane Avory has launched her long awaited JRPG-style game for the Commodore 64: Briley Witch Chronicles. The game is based on the novels of the same name by Avory. “When Briley Forester is torn from her world and dumped into the backward village of Maepole, she discovers that being a witch is hard, and … Briley Witch Chronicles is an awesome new C64 RPG by Sarah Jane Avory
Nixy the Glade Sprite is a new C64 arcade-adventure platform game, which has been ported from the ZX Spectrum version launched in 2018. Nixy is a glade sprite charged with looking after the Gaia stone. The Gaia stone is the heart of the Glade and gives life to the plants and flowers. But something is … Nixy the Glade Sprite – new C64 platform game
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 Icicle … Interview with Icicle Works programmer Doug Turner, plus new Plus/4 game!
Here are three upcoming books that may be of interest to retro gamers – two of them are being funded by crowdfunding, so take action if they interest you. Shareware Heroes Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet takes readers on a journey, from the beginnings of the shareware model in the … Upcoming Books: Shareware Heroes, Video Games that saved my life, The Games that Weren’t
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
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 permanent work-in-progress and will be … Ashtrays, Bread bins and Toastracks: A guide to retro computing slang
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 – a maze game … TFW8B launch range of Carts and provide service to sell Amateur programmer’s 8-bit games
Horace, yesterday. Shocking news for fans of the hungry skiier, Horace – star of games such as Hungry Horace and Horace goes Skiing. It has come to light that the bit on the side of Horace isn’t his arm – it’s a rat tail. Horace fan Neil Wright spoke to Alfred Milgrom – founder of … It turns out that the thing hanging off the side of Horace isn’t his arm
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 … Mastertronic Cassette Colour Codes