Learn to Code Retro Games with RetroGameCoders
Retro Game Coders is your home for learning retro game development, from retro game programming tutorials, analyzing classic retro code, through to retro programming for modern systems. If you are a game coder, have nostalgia for retro coding, or always wanted to be a retro game developer, this is the place for you!
If I designed a Commodore Phone
what I would do if I was speccing a Commodore phone today in 2026, and why
ASCII Dungeon Tiles on Amiga and Atari ST (C Programming)
In this part of the series we look at how Atari St and Amiga handles ASCII text and we create a hard-coded dungeon in C.
Retro C Versus BASIC: Squeezing Games into 8-bit Machines
It’s weird but sometimes BASIC beats C, in ways you might not expect!
C64IDE: Powerful, Free Mac Commodore 64 IDE Review
C64IDE is a superb Commodore 64 IDE by Thomas Knox, and the surprising part is that it is Mac-only.
Trimui Smart Pro S Review: Amazing $100 Retro Widescreen Handheld
Trimui Smart Pro S TG5050 is the successor to the highly rated TG5040 handheld retro games console. Let’s see how it compares to the R36S.
Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy’s One-Liner Can Still Teach Us
What can we learn from 8bitguy’s version of the famous C64 BASIC random maze …?