Category: Computers

Scene World Podcast Episode #57 – The Hungarian C64 and Amiga Gaming Scene with Andras Kaptas

Martin Ahman and Joerg talk to Andras Kaptas from the insert-coin.hu Association about the Hungarian C64 and Amiga Gaming Scene and how it came to be behind the iron curtain and how it envolved into creation of independand full price games for these machines long after their lifetimes. Also we talk about preserving the Hungarian videogame culture with him and…

Feature: 10 Awesome C64 Arcade Conversions

We look back at 10 of the best arcade coin-op conversions for the Commodore 64!

Clube MSX #3 Special Edition doubles down with print and disk magazine

Clube MSX, the quarterly Brazilian printed magazine about the MSX line of computers starts this Tuesday, November 20th, to take pre-orders for the third issue. The special holiday edition is already available for purchase, with a discounted price, at the magazine’s official website. Focusing on Christmas and Japan, Clube MSX #3 includes a double-sided poster featuring the games Gradius and…

Shattered Dreams: Broken C64 Games

Glitchy, buggy, or just plain broken, we look at C64 games impossible to complete

EA reveals plans for Command & Conquer remasters

EA has finally revealed information regarding it’s plans to remaster the classic PC real-time strategy series, Command & Conquer. The franchise will be celebrating it’s 25th anniversary in two years time, and EA has finally confirmed that remasters of the original games being developed to mark the occasion. In a post created on the Command & Conquer reddit, EA producer…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 55: Smash TV

Another arcade hit gets the AMIGArama treatment this weeks episode, it’s…. Smash TV!

Exploding Fish About To Get Limited Physical Release

Megastyle are pleased to announce the impending physical release of Exploding Fish for the Commodore 64. The limited cassette edition is scheduled to be available for order from their new web store on Saturday November 17 at 10am (UTC). Originally made available as a digital release back in June, Exploding Fish sees you take control of Diver Dougal who has…

Collector’s Corner: TK-95 – The Brazilian ZX Spectrum, but better

  Last year, when I went to visit family back home, I brought a CP-400 II, a TRS-80 Color Computer clone. When I went back this year, my objective was to acquire an MSX computer, which in Brazil were represented by the Gradiente Expert and the Sharp HotBit. With that in mind, I started my research, trying to find a…

Scene World Podcast Episode 56 – PLATO and IRATA ONLINE with Thomas Cherryhomes

PLATO is the great, great, great granddaddy of the online computer network. Developing forums, email, multiplayer networked games, screen sharing, and instant messaging, it is responsible for many of the things we take for granted today. AJ and Joerg take a deep dive with IRATA.ONLINE’s Thomas Cherryhomes into why PLATO is as awesome as it is, and how it still…