Category: Computers

Alien Downpour, Fast-Action Arcade-Style Shooter for the Apple ][

You are Deuce Darkstar on a secret, daring, foolhearty mission to infiltrate the Domain of Shmup and stop the Alien Downpour they are preparing to rain down upon all you know and love. You know it’s a suicide mission, but you eat suicide missions for breakfast and you’re mighty hungry. Good Hunting! Alien Downpour is a fast-action arcade-style shooter for…

Hokuto Force Releases Katakis +6DHFI for the Commodore 64

Hot of the press today is a new crack release from Hokuto Force. Katakis is a side scrolling shooter style arcade game developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts in 1987, and converted to the Commodore Amiga by Factor 5 in 1988. It was re-released as Denaris in 1989. The Hokuto Force release contains the following trainers and bug…

Genblast! New Homebrew Space Shoot ’em Up for ZX Spectrum

Good afternoon Retro Gamers, today we have a special Homebrew treat for you all, Dave Hughes has released a new Shoot ’em up for your Speccy! Dave decided to set himself a goal and see what could be achieved using an old game engine, his choice was Games Designer from Quicksilva Ltd released in 1983! This program is well known…

Prototype MEGA65 PCBs at Revision 2017

Found some interesting News on Facebook this morning. The first MEGA65 Prototype PCBs have been made, and were tested at Revision 2017 Demo Party over Easter Weekend. Paul Gardner-Stephen has a blog called c65gs which shows photos of the new board, plus a small News write up regarding progress. Follow the link below. Many thanks to Regor Lediek for the…

FREEZE64 Commodore 64 Fanzine Issue 8 Now Available to Order!

FREEZE64 is an A5 Commodore 64 Paper Fanzine created by Vinny Mainolfi who runs the websites C64Endings and Hackersoft. Issue 8 is now available to purchase! FREEZE64 is a Retro Gamers dream and is packed full with C64 Gaming News, Game Cheats and interesting information about coding on your Commodore 64! In this edition: Maze of the Mummy, Raffox, Game…

BoingsWorld #85 Amiga Podcast (German)

A new episode of BoingsWorld (German language) is now available. Click the link below to listen to the following articles: News, Amiga 20 Years, Hollywood 7, Howitzer Duell, Amiga Racer, Emotion Mediaplayer, ACA500plus, David Pleasance, AmigaMeeting, ACM and CC2017. Listen: BoingsWorldEpisode085.mp3 Website: http://boingsworld.de

WinUAE 3.4.1 beta 06 Update, The Worlds Greatest Amiga Emulator!

Toni is back again with another Beta version of WinUAE. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes…

New Scene World Podcast Episode #32 – Andreas Wallström

Our new podcast has been released! We talked to Andreas Wallström about his awesome new book “Commodore 64: For the Love of a Machine”. Check it out and enjoy listening! Link: scene.world/c64love 

“A Crash Landing Globe Spanning Adventure”

The term “interactive movie” causes gamers of a certain vintage to immediately adopt the fetal position and rock incessantly at flashbacks of terrible voice acting, endless cut scenes and letterbox window videos strewn with artefacts and extreme levels of compression.  Shortly before the CD-ROM format landed and opened the doors to this new frontier however, the interactive movie is what the…

Dizzy VII, Crystal Kingdom Dizzy (2017), 128k Version has Landed!

Ok this is pretty damn cool, and we all love dizzy :) “It’s an official 30 years anniversary of Dizzy games! We are glad to present a new long-awaited remake of Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, being developed during several past years. * New original 50 FPS engine, written from scratch * New original graphics, inspired by Amiga version * Unbelievable loading screen…