Category: Commodore 64
It was announced today via email that the Mega65 is available for pre-order at the Trenz Electronic webshop http://trenz.org/mega65. The price tag is €666.66 or USD 742 plus shipping. The price might scare some as it is not cheap, but based on the dev kit sold some time ago, I am actually surprised it is below 700 Euros. During the…
Scene World Podcast Episode #121 – Chris Abbott – The Little Books Of SoundchipsWe’re happy to have Chris Abbott in our new podcast episode, a british chiptune musician and true master of the C64 SID chip. Right now he is working on an extensive book about soundchips which is set to be released by Fusion Retro Book. The interview starts…
Double Sided Games has added two great games to their catalogue: Don’t Break The Balls for the Commodore 64 and Vegetables Deluxe for the ZX Spectrum. Don’t Break The Balls for the Commodore 64 DBTB is an action/puzzle game for 1 or 2 players in co-operation or duel for the Commodore 64. Controlling a fan, you need to blow the…
With the huge number of projects happening nowadays, it is hard to keep up with all available to make your life with your Commodore machines easier and more fun. We try to post news about many of them, but this only helps if you see the post or search for it. What about learning about things for your Commodore that…
The eagerly anticipated Monstro Giganto for the Commodore 64 is back on pre-order after RGCD had sold out of its initial release round of cartridge copies within one hour. Monstro Giganto is a beat’em up style of game featuring large monsters going one on one in epic fighting battles. Developed by the Pirates of Zanzibar, the graphics within Monstro Giganto…
Have you been burnt by the 2015 keycaps Indigogo of Phase5 from Austria like us and many others? Jim felt the pain as well and went out creating his own C64 keycaps project. Having a long history in developing hardware for Commodore computers (C64 AND Amiga!) , if there is somebody who can pull this off, then this guy with…
Fresh from our vaults:A historic interview with Gary Penn, a video games industry veteran and former games reviewer for Zzap!64. Fun fact: The first Grand Theft Auto game would have been ended up cancelled without his efforts as a creative director at DMA Design (later Rockstar Games).Enjoy!Link: https://scene.world/garypenn
We’re back with another book review! This time Merman takes a look at ARCADE IMPERFECT – a book by Jerry Ellis and Andrew Fisher, published by Golem Books in 2021 with cover artwork by Oli Frey. Over 250 coin-op games get their tribute here along with some interesting facts. Each game gets a page review, detailing the original arcade game,…
Bitmap Soft have made a major move by producing their first cartridge release on the label – Freaky Fish DX by DESIGN/chaos. Freaky Fish DX is a fun arcade style game that sees you play a giant bubble blowing fish trying to protect the other little fishes in the sea from a dynamite wielding fisherman. The basic objective is to…
Infocom released Zork 1, 2 and 3 in the early 80s. They were all made to be playable on the home computers of the day using a disk drive. As some of you are aware, they also created a cut-down version of Zork 1, called Mini-Zork 1, which was just small enough to fit into memory on a C64, so…
