Category: Commodore 64

Review: Boxymoxy (C64)

We review the new C64 brain-teaser from Pirates of Zanzibar!

MW Ultra (C64) – Game of the Year candidate about to get a release

Protovision is excited to announce that pre-orders for the standard cartridge edition of MW Ultra for the Commodore 64 will be available from their web shop on August 1. MW ULTRA is the latest title from the talented Covert Bitops team (Steel Ranger, Hessian, Metal Warrior 1 to 4) and is considered to be a gem of a game that features…

Several new unboxing and review videos from Merman for Scene World on youtube

The following unboxings and reviews have been uploaded to youtube now: Evercade: SID Chip Club: SNES Mini unboxing:

Remute XX Protovision’s C64 Mini/Maxi Bundle – Get up to 12 games and one music album for cheap!

Remute in partnership with Protovision is back with a new Commodore 64 music/game bundle. This is a great chance to buy very good C64 games for cheap and get also a super cool techno music album by Remute. The games can run on a real C64, TheC64 mini / maxi or any C64 emulator on any system, like C64 Forever…

Scene World Podcast Episode #91 – From Vultures to Vampires with David Pleasance

David Pleasance is the former marketing director for Commodore, and gained notoriety for his use of software bundles to sell computers, especially in the UK. He’s also the author of “Commodore – The Inside Story”, which detailed the internal workings of Commodore during its waning years. He’s following this book up with a look at the Amiga: “From Vultures to…

2020 Reset64 4kb ‘Craptastic’ Compo is over and you can play all the C64 games now

The 2020 Reset64 4kb ‘Craptastic’ Game Compo came to an end and published the contestants’ entries as a single package on itch.io. The competition hosted by Reset64 Magazine received 37 entries and based on the screenshots alone, the quality is very high. If you are not aware of the competition, don’t be fooled by the name! As the organizers explain:…

Learn all about the MEGA65 – Exclusive interview with the head of the project, Paul Gardner-Stephen

For the past few days, we’ve talked a lot about the MEGA65 here and on Twitter. The reason is the start of the pre-sale for the machine Dev kits. When you read this article, the first 100 units will be likely sold out, but the interested in the project sky-rocketed and more people want to know more about it. To…

Reading ViTNO articles as you would 30 years ago with Temporal Vortex BBS

A month ago I saw an announcement on Facebook that ViTNO articles were available on Temporal Vortex BBS ][. I was immediately curious to see how would that work and how well (or bad) would be the experience. Bulletin Board Systems I believe that most of our readers have come from the time when the Internet didn’t exist and BBS…

MEGA65 – The most expected C64 successor will have a developer kit available for pre-order on June 18

The MEGA – Museum of Electronic Games & Art has announced that the first batch of development kit of the MEGA65 will be ready for pre-orders next week at Trenz-Electronic. This is a limited run aimed at developers who want to participate in shaping the final machines, which are expected to be released in 2021 or want to start producing…