Retro Gaming News and Reviews

Online CP/M Emulator (WIP)

I've been working on an online CP/M emulator that runs in your browser using JavaScript. And it works! (mostly)

Online Retro Programming IDE: BBC CC65, C64 BASIC and Vic 20 Added!

RetroGameCoders IDE is an online development environment for retro programming, bringing 8-bit game development to your modern web browser

Shoot ‘Em Up Construction Kit for Commodore 64

Not everyone who wants to make games is a programmer so I thought I would take a look at how a classic game-making tool for the Commodore 64, the Shoot 'Em Up Construction Kit, worked.

Retro Rogue-Like: Modular Programming in C

Today I spent some time on the reorganization of the Dungeon game codebase into a modular structure.

I thought I would document it here along with key C programming concepts I used in the process.

Rogue-Like Game: Re-code in PyGame?

In this update I learned more about Pygame and considered it as an option for a "modern systems" port of my cross-platform retro rogue-like game

CC65/CL65 Ram Optimization

Adding more features while coding my Rogue-Like game meant I butted up against memory limitations again.

Is There Such a Thing as an Easy C Game Engine?

Getting Started with C and Raylib

Retro Dungeon in C: Putting my CC65 code on a diet

I wasn't too surprised that my game didn't fit into the 3.5KB available on an unexpanded Vic 20, but I was sad to see it won't fit into a Commodore 16!

Dungeon Game with Random Mazes Now Working on Commodore PET

The first reboot Dungeon game test, working on Commodore PET (with others coming), all using random maps