Category: Computers

Merman reviews Hey Listen! book for Scene World Magazine

Our very own Andrew Fisher, the gaming prof looks at the book “Hey Listen!” so enjoy this review guys! :) https://scene.world/heylisten

Parallaxian – ’16 bit’ C64 game hits Kickstarter but you may never get to play it

Parallaxian, a stunning new shoot’em up / bomb’em up game in development for the Commodore 64 is set to push the old home computer beyond it’s limits, raising the bar with graphical and coding techniques never before seen on any game for the platform. The backstory to Parallaxian sees you take on the role of a crack pilot manning the…

Atari Projects publishes Curated set of Atari news articles from the New York Times (1974-1985)

Atari Projects is a cool website offering suggestions for projects you can do with your Atari computer or game console, including the time you would take to complete the task. Their latest article is particularly interesting for me, who loves a vintage reading material (I am currently reading ANALOG, for example). The article presents a series of links to selected…

Atari: The arcade version of the classic Montezuma’s Revenge!

Robert Jaeger, the developer of the amazing Montezuma’s Revenge, has shared some photos and a video of his latest project: an arcade machine running his classic creation. This is something I wanted to build just for fun, for my game room and the fans! Using a standard mail order cabinet, the arcade machine is powered by an “old laptop” running…

Scene World: Age of Heroes Review by Andrew Fisher!

Our own Andrew Fisher has created an #unboxing and #gameplay video of the #c64 game #AgeOfHeroes published by #psytronik enjoy! :)

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 83: Final Fight

AMIGArama takes the fight to a game that’s a legend in it’s own lifetime… Capcom’s Final Fight.

Walker – Commodore Amiga Retro Rewind Review

The relationship between man vs. machine has always been an ever-increasing source of contention. Our ability to create devastating technological weapons has been explored many times within sci-fi literature, films and games. And in 1993, DMA Design and Psygnosis unleashed their vision on Amiga owners. Stomping our way into the first level, the first thing that strikes you is the…

Double Sided Games teams up with Mike Richmond to bring C64 fans more Vegetables

Double Sided Games is excited to announce that they will be publishing Vegetables Deluxe, a match 3 style puzzle game with a vegetable theme, for the Commodore 64. Vegetables Deluxe, developed by Mike Richmond, is the sequel to the original Vegetables game that Richmond released earlier this year and submitted as part of the RGCD C64 16K Cartridge Game Dev…

Who would imagine to see MSX magazines in newsstands in this day and age!

I think everyone reading this has good memories going to newsstands or the magazine section of a computer store and browse the many computer magazines available (when they weren’t wrapped in plastic bags!). Atari owners would look for the Antics and ANALOGs, Commodore fans for Compute Gazette, Your Commodore, and so on! There were also the 300-page multiplatform magazines like…

RGCD gives an upd​at​e on Moonspire II for Commodore 64

RGCD has a new blog post talking about Dusan Milivojevic’s Moonspire II project. In order to release a preview of the game on CSDb, Dusan had disabled all incomplete levels but, not surprisingly, cracked versions of the game were released on the same website shortly after, exposing the half-baked/broken levels. This fact almost made Dusan give up and trash the…