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Owen still works heavily on Newo Fox for Nintendo’s Wii.

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Stress testing the orb boss. 50 outer pieces for the player to collide into and 50 inner pieces deflect bullets away from the core.

Juggle Panic is a PICO-8 game by bridgs. This game is for two players playing at the same time and juggling balls! The first player to drop five balls loses!

Michael Chiaramonte shows us once again how to do some NES Programming.

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In this action-packed episode, I cleaned up most of our ship’s physics and capped the maximum velocity in the positive direction. I have to revisit the negative direction. I then added the ability to deal with game state transitions, but found that that introduced some undesired behavior. After getting it working, it’s still unclear why jumping directly to the beginning of the game loop is causing it to process the game states incorrectly and I’ll revisit that in the next episode, along with assets for the title screen.

Xixit Reborn by GONSoft is a game where you have to line up objects of the same kind in any direction.

Circuit: Logic Gate Puzzle by NovaBlast Software helps you understand how electronic circuit parts work together. In this logical puzzle game you need to figure out, how the logic gates change their inputs. Discover the level, follow how the energy flows and turn the right switches to win. Try your best and solve the levels by the fewest moves.

nanochess updated his very own version of Anteater, called Aardvark. The game get better each update and is a must check for Atari 2600 fans.

Retro Asylum #179 is here!

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Steve Erickson & Mads Kristensen talk to Juan J. Martinez about his most recent games and how it is to develop modern games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64.

The Assembly Line is a NES homebrew podcast started by Sole Goose Productions and Kevin. They cover a variety of theoretical topics, feature a central game under review, have guest interviews with folks, and also showcase some music.

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Bonus Episode: 2017 Holiday Special: We decided to get together with two of the biggest NES Homebrew collectors and drive up to Michigan and have a nice old-fashioned trivia contest. Featuring Christian Dietering (Ferris Bueller) and Justin Orenich (neodolphino), we test these two fine gentlemen’s intense homebrew knowledge and at the end of it all, we crown a 2017 homebrew trivia champion.

https://soundcloud.com/user-463768680/bonus-episode-2017-holiday-special

Michael Chiaramonte shows us once again how to do some NES Programming.

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In this episode, I change the collision detection code to be data driven instead of using hard-coded checks. I also fix the collision detection comparisons to actually be comparisons instead of using the SBC operation (thanks again to Sig Hewett for pointing that out in the comments of the previous episode). Finally we implement some bad physics on the ship to make it move a little more fluidly (or something like that) and then talk briefly about source control using git. (Sorry for the audio levels, BTW, I’m still working out a good way to get that leveled out)

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

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The ZX Spectrum Next is a 21st Spectrum reborn: a new machine, fully compatible with the original computer, and packed with improvements. We talk to Jim Bagley, Mike Dailly and The Oliver Twins to find out about it.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/zx-spectrum-next-special-the-retro-hour-ep112