Category: Computers
The dedication and love that persists for the Commodore Amiga seems to know no bounds, and the number of projects dedicated to keeping the memory of the machine alive is seemingly never-ending! Thanks to a heads-up from our community, we were made aware of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the Checkmate A1500 (2018 edition), a modular Amiga desktop computer case….
The “amiga-place-to-be” English Amiga Board (EAB) has announced a new game development competition, and it is offering more than €500 in prizes! The competition will run from September 1st, 2018 and the deadline is on February 28th, 2019 at 23:59 UTC, so the contestants will have six months to come up with the next great Amiga game. The entries have to be brand…
Electronics hobbyists and Commodore fans looking to breathe life into a defunct A1200 might be interested in ‘Re-Amiga‘, a new printed circuit board design created by John “Chucky” Hertell. John reached out to the Amiga community on Facebook to ask for suggestions as to what his next project should be; when someone replied that they had an empty A1200 PCB,…
If you are an Apple ][ fan, or even if you think Atari or Commodore are better, you probably know about Kansasfest, a multiday encounter that happens every year in Kansas City, Missouri. The length of the conference is at the same time a blessing for those who are able to attend and a curse for those who cannot afford…
March/2019: Check also https://www.vitno.org/retroshop-rolling-out-mister-fpga-special-bundle/ RetroShop, a well known retro-hardware provider, has announced on its page on Facebook the immediate availability of MiSTer, a re-implementation of the original classic computer hardware in FPGA. MiSTer is a port of the MiST project to a larger FPGA and faster ARM. MiSTer provides modern video output through HDMI (VGA and analog audio are still available…
Fans of the current Commodore 64 gaming scene are blessed to have passionate game designers such as Trevor Storey to provide great re-interpretations of classic 8-bit games that provide great gaming enjoyment in the modern day environment. Today we take a look back at one of Storey’s more successful collaboration projects with coder Achim Volkers, Darkness, originally distributed by RGCD…
Readers of a certain age will almost certainly remember the CD-ROM revolution of the 1990s. Suddenly the entire games industry was fixated on filling shiny discs with streamable audio and heavily compressed pre-rendered video. This led to the new era of fully voiced games. Exciting, right? Unfortunately, like a puppy climbing the stairs, this proved to be somewhat of a…
Several months ago, we were excited to preview Dawn of Kernel, the latest game in development for the Amstrad CPC 464 by Juan J. Martinez (Resucing Orc, Magica, Golden Tail). The game has finally been released to the general public, and we finally got some time to go hands-on with this nifty little flick-screen arcade shooter! In terms of system support, the…
Henrique Olifiers has announced on the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page that all the 2B boards will be in production starting next week! The 2B is the final version of the board, which receive some changes and adjustments from users feedback that are using the 2A. In the short update, Henrique also gave updates about the keyboard and the case….
Lars Sobiraj is a freelance journalist, member of the Amiga scene as Ghandy, and editor for Tarnkappe. info and fomer editor of the Hugi diskmag and the news / underground portal gulli. com. He is also the first guest to ever be on the Scene World Podcast, all the way back in 2014. AJ and Joerg welcome Lars back to…
