Space Invaders – Various – GameHammer Daily September 11, 2019February 7, 2020Zoe Kirk-Robinson The godfather of retro games, Space Invaders, has a long and varied history. Today on GameHammer Daily, Zoë takes a look at several [...]
GameHammer Live Game Coding (Episode 18) September 8, 2019September 8, 2019Zoe Kirk-Robinson In this week’s episode, Zoë constructs the room where the final battle between Dirk Headstrong, space adventurer, and the Bondak Queen will take [...]
Why The CPC 664 Was Only Sold For Six Months September 5, 2019September 8, 2019Zoe Kirk-Robinson 1 Computers come and go, it’s a fact of life. Back in the mid-1980s, the bubble was bursting on the microcomputer boom; leaving many [...]
GameHammer Live Game Coding (Episode 17) August 25, 2019August 25, 2019Zoe Kirk-Robinson Zoë continues work on her latest game, Dirk Headstrong and the Martian Madness, in the latest episode of Live Game Coding; the show [...]
Amazing Demos That Push The Limits of Retro Computers August 21, 2019August 21, 2019Zoe Kirk-Robinson Demos are those short programs (well, they are usually short anyway) that do things the manufacturers of our favourite home computer hardware said [...]
CPC 464, 664 & 6128: The Meaning Behind The Numbers August 19, 2019August 19, 2019Zoe Kirk-Robinson 1 The Amstrad CPC range of computers has one of the more obscure naming conventions in the 8-bit line-up. Most systems went with something [...]
GameHammer Live Game Coding (Episode 16) August 18, 2019August 18, 2019Zoe Kirk-Robinson The Dirk Headstrong game is going from strength to strength now we have even more locations and pieces of the puzzle put into [...]
GameHammer Live Game Coding (Episode 15) August 4, 2019August 4, 2019Zoe Kirk-Robinson It’s another productive episode of the Live Game Coding series, with the Dirk Headstrong and the Martian Madness game really starting to take [...]
GameHammer Live Game Coding (Episode 14) July 28, 2019July 28, 2019Zoe Kirk-Robinson We are back from a short break with more Live Game Coding, where progress is being made on the new game, Dirk Headstrong [...]
CPCine Episode 9 July 22, 2019July 22, 2019Zoe Kirk-Robinson CPCine, the Amstrad CPC Video Magazine, is a documentary series charting the life of the Amstrad CPC range of computers; beginning with the [...]