December, 2020 - Retro Roundup

Happy New Year 2021!

December 31, 2020 Intv Prime

We at Intv Prime WHQ wish you and yours a very happy 2021! We are planning to show some great things this year! The “ROM” of the message is… Read more » …

You’ll need swords, seamanship, political guile, but most of all inline hints to tackle Infocom’s ill-conceived first foray into graphical adventures. Kay and Carrington find their patience tested in a game where, ironically, the most frequently used command is ‘wait’. Hosts: Kay Savetz and Carrington Vanston Theme tune: “It Is …

TML Checkpoint Number 11

December 18, 2020 Intv Prime

We are re-working the in-game music. Thanks to optimizations from LTO, and also to some expanded functionality in the Ellington app we developed for music coding, things sound even better… Read more » …

Steve Wozniak’s Hand-Drawn Apple 2 Schematics sells for USD 500,000!

December 18, 2020 Vintage Is the New Old

Just before heading to bed last night, I checked my Twitter feed when I see a Call A.P.P.L.E tweet mentioning that Steve Wozniak’s hand-drawn and handwritten schematics and programming instructions for a prototype of the Apple II home computer was sold for $500,000. Following the link I see that …

Podcast Episode #102 – Netlabels and retro pixeling with Martin ‘Nodepond’ Wisniowski

December 16, 2020 Scene World Podcast

Martin is not only part of the demoscene and a graphic artist for Scene World, but he is also a pioneer in the early ages of Netlabels and a creative head that often creates unique artistic projects. In this podcast, AJ and Joerg talk with him about the …

ANTIC Interview 401 – John F. White: Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer & Superquerg

December 12, 2020 ANTIC

John F. White: Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer & Superquerg John F. White is author of the book Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer and the creator of Superquerg and Negaquerg, computer chess programs that were distributed in New Atari User magazine. He was also a contributor …

Podcast Episode #101 – Craig Stadler’s Petey Vid

December 7, 2020 Scene World Podcast

When you are searching for a video on the internet, which search engine do you typically use? Google? YouTube’s? Then perhaps there is another place where you can get more complete and valuable search results! What it takes to bring a new search engine for video’s alive, all …

2020 Post-Mortem

December 31, 2020 Kevin Savetz

It’s 2021. Thank goodness. I don’t need to tell you that 2020 was a horrendous year. I’m just glad that it’s over. Of course, the flipping of the calendar doesn’t change a thing, but the new year brings hope that the days to come will be better than the days …

Streaming: BF5… badly

December 31, 2020 Steve Benway

Soul Force – Full Version Now Available!

December 31, 2020 PROTOVISION

We know that you have all been eager to finally play our latest space shooter – Soul Force by Sarah Jane Avory. There have been some hiccups in bringing this to you over the past few days but the good news is that you can now download the full digital …

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