So you have got your old Spectrum+ out from the loft because you don’t like the look of that ‘orrible thing called the Vega. You plug it in but alas, some or all of the keys don’t work. Well, the keyboard membrane has failed but don’t go binning your 80sContinue Reading
Part Three: The Joy of Plex Things have been progressing well with my Commodore 64 platform game since part two, and I have now put together a trailer showing the first two areas of the game. Before I begin retelling my joyous experiences of learning C64 sprite multiplexing, I’d likeContinue Reading
Part Two: Pixel perfect platforming Since the last instalment, I made the decision to go completely back to basics and do some research before progressing any further with my platform game. Why? It has been a dream of mine to make a C64 platform game for a long, long time,Continue Reading
Part One: Initialising and moving a sprite I find it absolutely incredible that the Commodore 64 development scene is alive and well. Thanks to companies like Psytronik there is still a healthy stream of games arriving on the C64 25 years after I first got my machine in 1990. IContinue Reading
There have been quite a few ‘new housing for vintage computer/console’ Kickstarter campaigns of late but this one caught our attention because it dares to be a little bit different. Let me elaborate… With less than a week to go at the time of writing this particular campaign by PhilippeContinue Reading
Following on from his highly successful series of ‘in Pixels’ books on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Chris Wilkins, founder of Fusion Retro Books has now turned his attention to it’s playground rival; the Commodore 64. After the success of the books I have done the ZX Spectrum, it was onlyContinue Reading
We are proud to be supporting Chris Wilkins and Fusion Retro Books with the imminent Kickstarter campaign for his latest title ‘The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels’. This book follows on from his highly successful series of books on the ZX Spectrum and will be a great additionContinue Reading
Never since the actual release of the ZX Spectrum in 1982, has there been a better time to be a fan of this great British microcomputer. With new hardware releases such as the DivMMC, Just Speccy 128 and Spectranet, our humble little machine has been dragged kicking and beeping intoContinue Reading
Got an Amiga 500 plus? Haven’t removed or replaced the motherboard battery yet? Well if you haven’t here’s the bad news; it’s got a good chance of having leaked on your motherboard. And if it has, and isn’t rectified that battery electrolyte could well eat away at the tracks onContinue Reading
As many of us know, some of those games of the 8-bit era take a very large toll on the most common implement used to control them: the joystick. Yes, some of them just aren’t made to last (Mr Cheetah Annihilator, with your poorly designed plastic shaft, I am lookingContinue Reading