Archive for June, 2009

Retrogaming Times Monthly #58 is available. RTM is a retro magazine, sometimes with focus on homebrew things. Content of this issue: High Score Monthly! Who Am I? Lunch With Paul Zimmerman Show Report: CCAG 2009 Dinosaurs, Algebra, And The Three-Handed Controller How Phantasy Star II Taught Me To Spell How I Discovered THE SECRET Of Missile Command Never-Lander: A Programming … Read more

You are a lowercase i and you use your dot to slay the other vowels coming your way.

You find a treasure map in the attic of your house. Think Goonies movie. You and some friends go in search of this buried treasure on Skull Island. One problem, you don’t exactly know where Skull Island is. You each get out your raft and head out into the river. Your friends are represented on the grid as colors. The … Read more

This is going to be a platformer game where you will traverse a bunch of underground rooms looking for keys and other items to help you proceed to new areas. Think scaled-down metroid-type gameplay. The goal (obviously!) will be to find your brother who is being held captive by Chinese poachers who are going to cut off his you-know-what and … Read more

This is a simple 1 player game where you try to keep the alien from stealing all of your planetary barrier. You’ll need to run it with a Atari 2600 emulator or install it on a writable cartridge for use on Atari 2600 console. Discussion: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=145539

This is a simple 2 player game where you try to score goals. Oh yeah, you also have a gun. 🙂 You’ll need to run it with a Atari 2600 emulator or install it on a writable cartridge for use on Atari 2600 console. Discussion: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=145539

For those of you who haven’t played it, this game has elements of Pitfall, Adventure, and Jungle Hunt. The object of the game is to return Blackbeard’s skull to your ship. To do this, you must collect two map pieces and the shovel. Once you have the map pieces, and ‘X’ will appear on the screen where the skull is … Read more

Tank combat game, running from the VCS RAM. Release notes: Got it! I forgot I did not use tsx to get #$FF into X any more, so I set the stack pointer to 1 so I could save a byte by doing a tsx instead of the ldx #1. I think this will be the final version.

Some more Pandora news from it’s official blog. Quote: Hi there, forgive me for not posting any updates for a loooong time – first I have been rather busy with shipping out 200 WIZ (and I’m just one single person doing all that), then there’s the typical daily work like managing the File Archives, checking the boards… well, and I … Read more

Here comes some more hot information about the Pandor directly from the official blog. Quote: Hiya, it’s EvilDragon again. I got some more fresh news, and those are not about delaying or anything like that. As you have all read, the only driver problem is WiFi. To put things short (and as they are pretty complicated), here is what was … Read more