8bit-Slicks

31/05/2025

It's been a while, but we will be playing some games of slicks online today, on and off from early morning GMT time. Apple //, C64 and Lynx on the starting line!

21/04/2024

A nice Saturday spent with the Apple2 Tokyo Community. Got to see a lot of homebrew hardware, and even got to play some 8bit-Slicks online!

01/12/2023

On Saturday, December 2, 9am USA Central Time / 4pm Switzerland / 12am Japan, there will be a meeting to play online 8bit-Slicks, the arcade racing game for Lynx (and Atari 8 bit, Apple II, C64 and Oric-1/Atmos computers). https://8bit-slicks.com/ https://songbird-productions.com/product/8bit-slicks/

01/06/2022

Songbird Production is hosting another online race event this weekend (Saturday, June 4th, at 9:00am USA Central Time / 4:00pm France / 11pm Japan). Join us if you can, all 8bit platforms are welcome!!!

Ready for another 8bit-Slicks event? Plan to join us this Saturday, June 4th, at 9:00am USA Central Time / 4:00pm France / 11pm Japan. We’ll play for about an hour, and players can come and go as needed since each race only takes about 5 minutes. Hope you can make it!

06/05/2022

Songbird Production is hosting an online race event tomorrow at 4pm Paris time. Please join if you have a few minutes to spare!

Some of you have asked when we’re going to organize online races for Lynx 8bit-Slicks using the Hub. Our first “official” event is going to be this Saturday, May 7, at 9:00am USA Central Time / 4:00pm France / 11pm Japan. We’ll play for about an hour, and players can come and go as needed si...

23/04/2022

Sweet news: 8bit-Slicks and the 8bit-Hub got featured on Metal Jesus Rocks!

We're BACK with another Game Pickups video! Lots of new and old games plus we get some HOLY GRAILS. You're going to dig it!Patreon: http://www.Patreon.com/Me...

02/04/2022

The new NES/Famicom version of 8bit-Slicks Shareware with improved graphics is now ready for download @ http://8bit-slicks.com/?page_id=2
Make sure to download both the Cart and FCEUX emulator, as the 8bit-Hub code was improved and is not compatible with the previous version anymore.
Also, I have bought hardware to start producing actual NES/Famicom Carts of the game. Pre-orders for the full NES version should be opening soon, watch this space!!!

26/03/2022

The boxed release of 8bit-Slicks is already out for the Lynx, and soon the C64 at Atari 8bit will follow!
Here is a super-cool video showing the design process of cover art.

A time lapse of a recent commision for the cover art of 8Bit Slicks. A cross platform multiplayer homebrew game for the Atari Lynx.Find out more about the p...

26/03/2022

8bit-Slicks is finally available for the Ultimate Cart! This brings to 3 the number of supported network interfaces (8bit-Hub, RR-Net, Ultimate).
If you have not heard of 8bit-Slicks, head now to www.8bit-slicks.com and enjoy some cool online car racing on your C64/C128!

19/03/2022

Check this out, 8bit-Slicks got reviewed by the immortal John Hancock!!

8bit-Slicks is a new classic racing game published by Songbird for the Lynx. Includes full EEPROM support to save your best lap times with other 20+ track...

23/02/2022

Announcement to 8bit-Hub users: The firmware has been updated to version 0.6, which improves the networking protocol.
You will need to download the latest 8bit-Slicks disk after updating. An update of the emulator "Oricutron 1.2.0 - 8bit-Hub Firmware 0.6" is also available.
8bit-Slicks: http://8bit-slicks.com/?wpdmpro=oric-disk
8bit-Hub: http://8bit-unity.com/?page_id=551

20/01/2022

Yautja of AtariTeca posted a nice little article about the up-coming "boxed release" of 8bit-Slicks.
https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2022/01/abren-pre-ordenes-para-version-completa.html
Remember that you can pre-order (no payment required) the full-version from the 8bit-Slicks website, make sure to get in the queue!
http://8bit-slicks.com/?page_id=1132

Nuevos circuitos y soporte para más jugadores nos ofrecerá la versión completa de «8-bit Slicks», juego de carreras multiplataforma.