2023-07-13 14:00
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2023-07-12 12:12
The first edition of ViTNO Writer’s contest ended on June 30. We got to a verdict after some discussions with our judges, Randy Kindig (Floppy Days Podcast) and Kitty (@CommodoreBlog)… Read More
2023-07-03 19:10
Clube MSX is starting this Monday (07/03) the pre-sale of My Sacred Place and The 4 Masters of Melody Ex in cartridge for MSX. Each game comes with a box, manual and gifts and can now be pu… Read More
2023-07-01 14:28
Author: Falbert ForesterDate: June 30th, 2023Category: Non-technical
When My Father Took Me to Night Class
In the summer of 1982, my father signed up for a night course at the local h… Read More
2023-06-30 19:36
Author: Tyson RekDate: June 30th, 2023Category: Non-technical
ONLY A GAME
Gather around my fellow Nineties Brothers and get ready to turn back the Way-Clocks as we board the exp… Read More
2023-06-16 01:10
Author: SupercruiserDate: June 14th, 2023Category: Non-technical
So to put things into context and the memories all tend to get a little blurred the further things go on, but thi… Read More
2023-06-09 02:58
Atari fans are in luck, as Andrea Cucchetto (Italy) has managed to convert the popular Commodore 64 game “Space Taxi” for Atari 8-bit computers, with lovely graphics, challengin… Read More
2023-05-21 17:55
We’re back with a new episode of our podcast and this time we welcome Francisco Gonzáles from Grundislav Games. They are known for indie adventure games like Lamplight City, Sh… Read More
2023-05-04 13:30
Author: Francis BlaisDate: April 28th, 2023Category: Non-technical
Growing up in Quebec, Canada, as a 90’s kid hooked on 8-bit video games, had its share of unique moments.
For sta… Read More
2023-04-28 13:44
Following the success of Zeta Wing, Sarah Jane Avory has just released a second game in the series!
Zeta Wing 2 is a fun vertical shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64, sequel to Zeta Wing, itse… Read More
2023-04-20 11:02
For “THEA500 Mini” Siegfried Hübner describes how to run also Atari ST programs on this rebuild of the Amiga 500 by Retro Games Ltd. It requires EmuTOS-Amiga.ROM &helli…Read More
Announcing The 2023 Writing Contest “Vintage Is The New Old†– The Contest For The Rest Of Us!
2023-04-16 21:04
Are you a retro computing and gaming enthusiast? Are you always amazed how some people can create AAA games for old platforms while others can understand electronics and put modern hardware… Read More
2023-04-16 17:18
Let’s face it. The Atari community has been jealous of their usual enemies for years. The Speccy enthusiasts have the ZX Spectrum Next, and the Commodore fans have the Mega65 and the… Read More
2023-04-11 23:27
DPaint.js is a sophisticated image editor capable of reading and writing Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images. The editor is not complete yet, but it looks pretty usable. A nice feature is… Read More
2023-04-07 20:32
There is a new kid on the block to help you create NES games without digging deep into the 6502 Assembly.
NESFab is a new programming language for creating NES games. Designed with 8-b… Read More
2023-04-07 19:30
Coded by the mighty Luigi Di Fraia, aka The Chaos Engineer, a new pixel editor built from the ground up with a streamlined UI/UX reached the public beta phase and can be downloaded fr… Read More
2023-04-07 18:51
Logos are an important aspect of demoscene culture because they serve as a means of self-expression and identification within the community. They can also be a source of friendly competitio… Read More
2023-04-05 21:29
If you have been an engineer (or similar) since the 80s or 90s, it is almost certain you owned a scientific programmable calculator. Funny as it is, I am not among them. However, I remember… Read More
2023-04-03 17:49
Demo Sceners all around the world are getting ready for the best party of the year, Revision 2023!
For those of you that aren’t so familiar with the demo scene, A demoparty is &ndash&hellip…Read More
2023-04-01 13:35
We have some big news for the Apple II fans: A2Central.com is back!
Launched in June 2000, this Apple II site provided our community with news, announcements, and updates until February 202… Read More
2023-03-31 17:06
Join us on this episode as we sit down with legendary video game composer and musician Frank Klepacki. With over 30 years of experience in the industry, Frank has created iconic soundtracks… Read More
2023-03-31 16:54
retro fun for all Amiga-fans – perfect for a fun game in between, for 2 to 4 players
beautiful illustrations of 32 Amiga models made exclusively for this card game
bilingual: English… Read More
2023-03-11 15:20
Game announcements are not my main focus here in Vintage is the New Old anymore – it is very hard to keep up and there are plenty of other ways to be up to speed with what is new in t… Read More
2023-03-02 22:05
Scene World was prominently featured in the 04/2023 issue of the German design magazine PAGE.
featuring logos from Retromantis, Black and JSL made for Scene World Magazine!
(The text tran… Read More
2023-03-02 21:41
In our new episode we are happy to talk to Julia Minamata. She is the developer of ‘The Crimson Diamond’ – a text parser EGA mystery adventure game to be released soon on S… Read More
2023-02-22 20:57
Darren Doyle from Greyfox Books has announced today that his book about the SEGA Mega Drive is available for free as a downloadable PDF. Although this alone is good news for all Mega Drive… Read More
2023-02-21 02:35
The 19th edition of MSXDev has started. The competition that began in 2003 has brought to life many high-quality games for the MSX.
The 2023 edition will follow the previous year’s &l&helli…Read More
2023-02-11 16:45
Recently I learned about an exciting project that started a couple of years ago: ugBasic.
ugBasic is a cross compiler of BASIC dialect specialized in programs that are very efficient by des… Read More
2023-02-08 17:42
NOTE: If what I describe in this article applies to other implementations of BASICs that use reserved string space, please leave a comment and let me know.
I was in junior high school when… Read More
2023-02-05 21:14
During the last MSX users’ meeting in Barcelona, Konamiman has announced a new project that he has been working on for a while: Nestor, a new Z80 cross-assembler. The main objective wa… Read More
2023-02-02 03:12
It is that time of the year when we all get excited about BASIC, but only if it is restricted to 10 lines of code! And, for the third time, I am honoured to be part of the judging panel!
On… Read More
2023-02-01 17:42
Hidden easter egg image in Tandy Color Computer 3.
The most famous Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer (“CoCo”) easter egg has to be the hidden photo of the CoCo 3 programmers that… Read More
2023-01-29 19:08
Not long ago, I posted about the development of Angry Birds for the Apple II, including the gameplay video showing it in all its glory!
One of the things that most impressed me when I saw A… Read More
2023-01-29 15:58
With my busy life, this is not exactly hot news, and you all might have seen it elsewhere, but I thought it would be nice to write something about it anyways.
The Apple Lisa was released 40… Read More
2023-01-27 17:42
Although I started out my home computer life with a Commodore VIC-20, I ended up moving to a 64K Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (“CoCo”) mostly because of its Microsoft Extend… Read More
2023-01-15 19:57
There is a recording of Remute’s concert in the Digital Retro Park in Offenbach Germany that took place on the 14th of January 2023:
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2023-01-15 19:25
A message from David Pleasance for all orders who ordered his german book of “Commodore the inside story”:
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2023-01-15 19:10
RetroRGB is THE portal to learn all about how to get the picture the best way out of such retro consoles to your modern TVs! Robert Neal is the master behind behind this portal which is the… Read More
2023-01-15 14:40
After having announced the judging panel (here), Planeta Sinclair posted the list of all games that will run for “best of” in different categories, including the most important:… Read More
2023-01-06 13:39
Logiker’s Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2022 had more than 200 entries, which is a staggering number, and we can say the challenge was a success!
Logiker has now posted a YouT… Read More
2023-01-02 21:16
It looks like the emulator developers have been working hard these past few weeks. YAPE 1.2.2 was released today, bringing important changes.
These are the most important new features and b… Read More
2023-01-02 20:05
Following the usual end-beginning-of-the-year articles or videos showing the best of 2022, The Game Beaters YouTube channel has published a very informative video about the best NES Homebrew… Read More
2023-01-01 22:00
CoCodle
(Article partially reproduced from trs8bit newsletter)
This year’s competition centred on the popular Wordle 5-letter word guessing game. There were two ways to enter: write a… Read More
2023-01-01 20:01
The last day of 2022 brought a massive update for the excellent (and beautiful) emulator Retro Virtual Machine. Known for its exquisite interface and great emulation experience, RVM was alr… Read More
2022-12-31 21:12
The Commodore 64, as one of the most popular computers of all time, is never short of great games released every year, and 2022 was no exception.
To help celebrate the C64 retro gaming scen… Read More
2022-12-30 16:28
SHMUP! Kai was released two years ago by Imanok, one of the most talented MSX developers out there. Now, he decided to make the game available for free.
If you look at the gameplay video be… Read More
2022-12-26 22:11
Our new episode is a very special Xmas present! Joerg and Remute had the pleasure to interview the world-famous Acapella band MayTree! Beginning in 2021, the group began releasing a series o… Read More
2022-12-26 20:27
After many months of development, a new version of WinUAE has been released. Version 4.10 brings now 100% cycle accuracy for the 68000-based unexpanded configuration. Also, initially… Read More
2022-12-23 20:00
Volume 27, Issue 4 (December 2022) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has now shipped.
This issue features Stephane Racle’s guide to identifying floppies… Read More
2022-12-20 21:49
In our new episode we are covering the Game Preservation Society. It is a non-profit organization actively preserving Japanese retro games from the 70’s and 80’s as cultural asse… Read More
2022-12-17 20:17
First and Last Issues
The December 2022 issue of PC Magazine will be its last one. Carol Mangis, manager of the magazine’s digital edition, announced the news in her “First Word… Read More
2022-12-09 13:03
Hyperdrive is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up game for the Amstrad CPC with 64K of RAM or more and the GX4000.
The game offers classic shoot’em up action with a smooth one-pixe… Read More
2022-12-08 13:11
Once again, Logiker comes up with something simple and fun for the retro computing community. This time around, you’ve been challenged to create a program in any language or platform… Read More
2022-12-08 02:42
The article below, written by Andrea Contato exclusively for Vintage is The New Old is an exciting view of the people that, even without realizing it, built the video game industry as we kn… Read More
2022-12-07 16:42
Previously, I shared my discovery that the new ChatGPT artificial intelligence program had some understanding of programming languages such as C, BASIC and even COBOL. In the days since that… Read More
2022-12-07 02:46
NesDev Compo is a game development competition that has been a staple of the NES Homebrew community for over 10 years. The 2022 edition just ended, and the winners have been announced &ndas&helli…Read More
2022-12-02 16:43
In our new podcast episode we are talking with Giulia Valentini and Fabrizio Rizzi from Smallthing Studios who are developing a brand new Simon The Sorcerer game! Enjoy and watch out for Sim… Read More
2022-12-02 15:20
Back when Apple Computer Inc. still supported the Apple II platform, the company released troves of utilities for end users and programmers alike — from the System 4.0.2 and System 6.0… Read More
2022-12-02 05:19
OpenAI is the entity behind the trendy DALL-E art generator that creates images using artificial intelligence. That’s the thing that’s been creating nightmare fuel images like th… Read More
2022-11-29 12:00
PETSCII Compositor is a Windows tool that helps create PETSCII art based on existing graphics. A few days ago, the creator, MultiStyle Labs, released a new version, 1.10. The program… Read More
2022-11-29 01:16
This Week In FujiNet – 46 and Holiday Week 47
Posted on November 27, 2022 by Atari Orbit
This Week In FujiNet is being released the weekend after Thanksgiving. I… Read More
2022-11-22 17:12
The NES game scene is one of the most active around the retro community. I think here on ViTNO we don’t talk enough about it, and we should try to do better since it is not only inter… Read More
2022-11-17 14:30
These Weeks in FujiNet – Weeks 42, 43, 44, 45
Posted on November 14 by Atari Orbit
Welcome back again to another TWIF – This Week in FujiNet. This is a catch-up edition… Read More
2022-11-16 13:42
Hokuto Force has released an enhanced version of Dig Dug, one of my favourite games for the C64 (I’ve played a lot on the arcades back in the day, to be honest!).
In addition to the N… Read More
2022-11-15 14:36
It’s never too late to do cool stuff in the retro computing world. This time around, the Atari 8-bit computers get a new port of the GEOS, a graphic interface environment created for… Read More
2022-11-12 13:18
MSXdev’22 is over, and all results are in. The always-successful contest nailed again! With 32 games, the judges had a really hard time picking the best ones, but after several days o… Read More
2022-11-11 18:34
The 7-years-old retro gaming podcast is already well-known by the retro community, and it is unquestionable their ability to invite real “celebrities” of retro computing and gam… Read More
2022-11-07 03:43
A great tool since 2013!
I’ve been a big fan of CBM prg Studio since I started using it back in 2013! It is an all-around IDE that allows you to develop programs for multiple Commodore… Read More
2022-11-06 15:36
CoCoBan is a self-discovery action puzzle game derived from Sokoban and Picoban with a few added twists. Use the keyboard to push or pick up objects to make your way to the gree… Read More
2022-11-04 13:15
In our new episode we talk with Yannick Belzil – script writer for the new Turtles game Shredder’s Revenge by Dotemu and Tribute Games! This brawler for PS4, Switch, Xbox and PC… Read More
2022-11-04 03:30
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The AmiGameJam contest has started! Hosted by Underground Arcade, this year the theme is “Sword & Sorcery” where you will have the opportunity to… Read More
2022-11-04 02:53
Cosmos Chronicles is an open-world RPG in an SCI-FI setting. According to the author, Dr. Floyd, the game is a tribute to Ultima 4, Sundog & Elite and it is an ambitious game being deve… Read More
2022-10-30 13:42
In our new episode we welcome back Joseph Lewandowski to talk about him selling some more cartridges from the ATARI Dig from 2014, as well as the ATARI story from Richard Griffith who does r… Read More
2022-10-29 16:42
The new game Decade Dungeon Gaiden MSX has been released in physical copy. It is an action RPG that explores decaying dungeons, fights monsters and searches for treasure chests, and c… Read More
2022-10-29 13:39
It is “part of the job” of any retro computer enthusiast to look for exciting projects to work on – and maybe one day finish them. Sometimes, a crazy (in a good sense) mind… Read More
2022-10-28 20:16
The 2nd. ATASCII Compo is in the history books now. The ATASCII-art competition aimed to find who are the real artists out there cable of conveying their imagination through the Atari 8-bit… Read More
2022-10-28 02:28
Even those who think mobile casual games are a “lesser” category in games have to admit that some titles reserved their places in video game history. One of these is Angry Birds… Read More
2022-10-24 14:00
It was announced at the Amiga 37 event in Germany that Blaze Entertainment and Amiga are partnering to bring Amiga games to Evercade devices, a modern console targeting retro games that use… Read More
2022-10-24 12:16
As usual (at least before the pandemic), World of Commodore is scheduled for this next December 3rd and 4th, 2022. The event will take place in Toronto at the Admiral Inn Hotel and, if you… Read More
2022-10-21 15:13
I learned about this game just a few years ago, and it took me so much time to learn how to leave the hangar! But after I managed to do that, the game is super fun and well made. Today, Luc… Read More
2022-10-20 01:40
Lost Games is a compilation of 4 games, resurrected from tape, that Andy “Cosmium” Beale wrote in 1983. You might remember Cosmium when he released the excellent Quadron a… Read More
2022-10-18 20:35
In our new episode we welcome Floppy Totaal . These amazing people from the Netherlands are 100% into floppy disks! They are keeping the spirit alive with events and even a book called &lsqu&hell…Read More
2022-10-12 13:16
Jonas Hultén made it possible to see one of my favourite Atari 2600 games on the VIC-20.
In case you have been trapped in a mine all this time, in H.E.R.O., your mission is to rescue… Read More
2022-10-01 13:02
Logiker is again promoting retro computer art, with another edition of the ATASCII Compo, which allows the participants to show off their art skills using only ATASCII characters!
The compe… Read More
2022-09-30 14:30
Volume 27, Issue 3 (September 2021) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has now shipped.
This issue features coverage of KansasFest 2022, both onsite and online;… Read More
2022-09-26 12:25
Pikuma has released a new course to teach you 6502 Assembly to be used on the Nintendo Entertainment System through a 22-hour-long video. At the end of the course, you’ll have a worki… Read More
2022-09-20 14:54
Frank Niggermann announced on the Commodore 64/128 Programming group on Facebook the availability of a neat set of tools that he, in his spare time, writes to help the development of C64 pr… Read More
2022-09-20 13:00
Dragon Wood, which Steril707 himself describes as a fantasy version of Exolon (Hewson, 1987), the legendary Amstrad CPC title.
Borrmann – who is better known under the name of Tigersk… Read More
2022-09-19 15:34
Scorpion Engine 2022.7 is out, including:
Mouse support (including two-player)
New ability to assign assets specifically to AGA or OCS builds
Another round of significant performance op… Read More
2022-09-19 12:38
If you like Metroid, you will be happy to know that Psytronik has announced a new game for the Commodore 64: Captain Ishtar, from master game designer ALF YNGVE. While there are… Read More
2022-09-17 13:25
I think I missed the memo when version 1.0 of XRoar came out back in November 2021. I knew the emulator for many years and since I am a macOS user, it was always a good choice for me to emu… Read More
2022-09-16 19:08
This interview was conducted by Gregg Williams and Rob Moore and was published in BYTE Magazine in two parts, December 1994 and January 1995.
I’ve decided to reproduce this interv… Read More
2022-09-14 03:13
I got my first computer when I was 13 years old, and it was a JR Sysdata, a TRS-80 Model I clone. I loved that machine and learned a lot from it, but as soon I saw the CP-400 advertisements… Read More
2022-09-09 02:37
The Retro Hour podcast, although it has most of its focus on retro gaming news and interviews, it also covers, from time to time, different technologies from the old days.
I guess on could… Read More
2022-08-29 18:01
Early this month, FastBASIC 4.6 was released, bringing new support to produce Atari 5200 cartridge images, among other bug fixes and improvements.
This version uses a new PC compiler, rewri… Read More
2022-08-26 00:46
After more than 4 years in development, 4MHz’s most ambitious project enters its final stretch and will be shown in playable demo format at GAMESCOM’22. Malasombra is a new vide… Read More
2022-08-25 16:00
The MSX Resource Center forum user ‘manimani’ has announced that he is in the final stages of translating the MSX version of Final Fantasy to English. Final Fantasy is probably… Read More
2022-08-23 16:01
Reset64 Magazine has been promoting the Craptastic competitions for many years and has already become a tradition. The 2022 compo has produced many excellent small games for the Commodore 6… Read More
2022-08-09 20:55
In our new podcast we welcome Yuba Rahamani and talk about the E-Sports scene in Ghana. Learn about some interesting insights and entertaining facts. Interview starts at minute 11:31!
https… Read More
2022-08-01 12:00
The Brazilian magazine Clube MSX is starting this Monday (08/01) the pre-sale of its fifteenth edition. Copies – in Portuguese or English – can now be purchased through the publ… Read More
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