Category: News
We are in a golden age of retro printed magazines, with excellent examples dedicated to different retro computers and one great multi-platform. Just before Christmas, I had in my mailbox Freeze 64 and 8-Bit Magazine. We mentioned these publications before, but I decided to talk a bit more about both to, hopefully, help those who are on the fence about buying them. Freeze…
Hokuto Force is another C64 Scene Group that we closely follow, they are regularly active on CSDb, and release some fantastic cracks. Let’s take a quick look at a few..First up on my list is Seahorses +1DG. Get set for underwater fun and adventure with your delightful marine friends.. The Seahorses! Swimming about in their lagoon, these fascinating colour changing…
WebMSX is a fully-featured browser-based MSX emulator. With the new version 4.0, it brings support for mobile browsers. With this release, you can play your favorite MSX game on the go using your iPhone or Android phone. It not only runs the emulator but also allows the user to play games in full screen using virtual buttons that work on your…
Fairlight is an isometric projection arcade adventure video game developed by Bo Jangeborg and Jack Wilkes at EDGE Games and released in 1985 (Wikipedia), for the ZX Spectrum and later on ported to the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. The game was a best seller at the time as well as pleased by the magazines of the time. On Christmas day, Atariage…
Hackaday has a piece from their 2016 Hackaday SuperConference where IC expert Ken Shirriff talks about his “bizarre hobby of reverse-engineering old chips”. He starts off with the venerable Z80 CPU, mapping the signal flows from the address lines, through the decoder and into the ALU. Did you know that the Z80 only had a 4-bit ALU?!? Man, those were…
After three years of development, with several interruptions and side projects, the game Pop*Star Pilot for the CoCo3 has been released! Developed by Nick Marentes, the game consists of a colourful side-scroller in which the player controls an airplane that flies through different levels whilst popping up balloons. As well as taking care of the balloons, it is important you avoid buildings and keep…
We finally present the interview with Jens Schoenfeld of Individual Computers, in which he sheds a light on the new Commodore 64 Reloaded versions coming out and the new C64C cases! Check it out! http://scene.world
Latest downloads over at The New Dimension are as follows: Bergbert III – The Blue Knight by Christian Siege SEUCK School – Special Edition Super Silverfish by Alf Yngve Mix Box #2 Website: tnd64.unikat.sk
High Voltage SID Collection v66 has been released. After this update, the collection should contain 48,943 SID files! This update features: 430 new SIDs 50 fixed/better rips 3 repeats/bad rips eliminated 201 SID credit fixes 26 SID model/clock infos 7 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified 5 tunes from /GAMES/ identified 22 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories 10…
Frank Gasking runs the awesome website GTW64, which is a C64 focused project attempting to find all incomplete and lost C64 games, and archive them for all you lovely Retro Gamers to enjoy! Todays updates are as follows.. Poseidon – Planet Eleven V1 Kinetix FX Tronscii The Brainies Yogi’s Big Clean Up Wizards Dominion Jimmy’s Grandprix Brides Of Dracula Alloyrun Source: http://www.gamesthatwerent.com
