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Two recent open source projects highlight another major game reservation push, in this case to help classic games run well on modern PCs.
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As the Commodore 64 ages, it seems to be taking on a second life. Case in point: Vision BASIC is a customized, special version of the BASIC programming language with …read more Continue reading New Release of Vision Basic: Hot New Features!
Atari announced that it has acquired the Intellivision brand and certain Intellivision game titles from Intellivision Entertainment LLC.
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Digital Eclipse revealed that its second interactive game and documentary, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, will arrive on March 13 on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.
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[Chris Downing] recently finished up a major project that spanned some two years and used nearly every skill he possessed. The result? A smart air hockey table with retro-gaming roots. …read more Continue reading Air Hockey Table Embraces DOOM, Retro Gaming
There was a time early in the development of the Super Nintendo (SNES) where the new console was to feature backwards compatibility with NES games. The solution would have required …read more Continue reading NES Classic Metroid Ported to Equally Classic Super Nintendo
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will include 42 classic games from 8 different 1980s and 1990s video game platforms and a metric ton of additional content.
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Some of our readers may know about Zork (and 1, 2, 3), the 1977 text adventure originally written for the PDP-10. The game has been public domain for a while …read more Continue reading Zork Zcode Interpreters Appear Out Of Nowhere
Atari announced that it is acquiring retro gaming firm Digital Eclipse for $4 million in cash and $2.5 million in Atari stock.
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There are some projects that initially don’t seem to make sense, but actually turn out to have valid use cases. ChimeraOS appears to be one of those. The idea is …read more Continue reading Install ChimeraOS and Never Leave The Sofa