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Today, we have released a very special episode of the Scene World Magazine podcast, with starting to have a look at the history of the magazine with founding members Silvio and Andrew Fisher! Thanks guys for being a part of this for 15+ years! Listen to it here: http://goo.gl/krDzPP
Before browser-based games, before the Internet, there was darkness….oops, I mean BBS Door games. PCMag has published today a featured article talking about this way people used to play games online at the time online meant BBS (Bulletin Board Systems). “Once connected to these mostly hobby-run services, users could bring up a list of games to play. These early online games…
The website Old Tech New Tech Magazine has published a detailed review of the VGA Adapter for the Apple IIc. The product, sold by A2Heaven costs USD$85, seemed to please the reviewer, Warren Ernst: “The Apple IIc VGA adapter is not for everyone. People without eyes, for example, won’t benefit from it. …the A2Heaven’s Apple IIc VGA adapter is arguably the most worthwhile…
Usually retro computer enthusiasts have a “thing” for pixelated graphics. This is so true that you can see the myriad of modern games mimicking 8 or 16 bits graphics being released all the time. I have to confess that I am one of those, but I sometimes go further and graphics like the TRS-80 and ZX81 just makes me happy….
After holding a group-email discussion with the entrants, RGCD has decided to extend the competition deadline by two months. The final date to submit your project is now midnight between the 31st March and the 1st April (00:00 GMT on the 1st April 2016). Following this update, the organization has confirmed that most of the contestants still are in active…
Retro Commodore website motto is Your place with high quality scans, and to confirm that objective, tomse has published the Commodore document ‘Overview of Advanced Amiga Architecture and Other Future Directions’ released in 1993 for the ’93 Developers Conference. The document was provided by PET/Dexion As usual, tomse’s OCD (this is a compliment!) is delivering a high-quality PDF file of the 193-page document…
We at Scene World Magazine have been active again with software and hardware reviews as video! Jon looked at the Christmas releases: [youtube XgrhtgHxmNE nolink] and Kevin looked at the new C64 Reloaded by Individual Computers! [youtube oT3hSbBGU9Y nolink] Please enjoy and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more in the future! :) Website: http://youtube.sceneworld.org
We’ve talked about that before, but if you didn’t read, know that Sam’s Journey is a brand-new original scrolling platform game for the Commodore 64 with huge levels to be explored, hidden items to be found and secret passages to be discovered. The game is yet to be released this year and we can’t wait to see that happen. Knights of…
MSXdev’15 received its 3rd entry: Bubbo World by Team N.I., an action game where the main goal is to collect all the gold ingot spread all around the screen. The character can drop ladders to get to the gold and also, he can warp to a random spot in the screen when there is no exit. Green rocks fall from the top of the…
This 2-part article, written by Jimmy Maher on the ‘The Digital Antiquarian’ blog tackles software piracy, since the dawn of personal computing. The first part focus on the history, starting with the open letter Bill Gates wrote back in 1976, asking the hobbyists to not copy Micro-soft software and explaining how software copyright came to be. The second part is actually my favorite,…
