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Another great port! Now you can play Raid Over Moscow in the Commodore Plus/4

I learned about this game just a few years ago, and it took me so much time to learn how to leave the hangar! But after I managed to do that, the game is super fun and well made. Today, Lucas Carrafiello announced the availability of the game for the Plus/4. Follow the announcement verbatim: It’s the day! The new…

“Lost Games” – Four games for the ZX-Spectrum recovered from 1983

Lost Games is a compilation of 4 games, resurrected from tape, that Andy “Cosmium” Beale wrote in 1983. You might remember Cosmium when he released the excellent Quadron a few years ago. Although they didn’t make the cut with the publishers at the time, Cosmium thinks these compiled BASIC 16K games were quite fun for the era, and he decided to…

Scene World Podcast Episode #150 – Floppy Totaal

In our new episode we welcome Floppy Totaal . These amazing people from the Netherlands are 100% into floppy disks! They are keeping the spirit alive with events and even a book called ‘Floppy Disk Fever’. Enjoy! Interview starts at minute 19:08 Listen or watch the video version at: https://scene.world/floppytotaal    

H.E.R.O. has been ported for the VIC-20

Jonas Hultén made it possible to see one of my favourite Atari 2600 games on the VIC-20. In case you have been trapped in a mine all this time, in H.E.R.O., your mission is to rescue trapped miners from underground caves. There are 20 levels to play, and you will be considered a professional hero after these 20 levels. For…

The second edition of the ATASCII Compo has started!

Logiker is again promoting retro computer art, with another edition of the ATASCII Compo, which allows the participants to show off their art skills using only ATASCII characters! The competition runs from October 1st, 2022 through October 15th, and this year you have even another incentive to participate. Thanks to a generous donation, the first place will get 100 Euros!…

Enjoy Juiced.GS Volume 27, Issue 3 (September 2022)

Juiced.GS Volume 27, Issue 3 (September 2022)

The September 2022 issue of Juiced.GS has shipped, featuring KansasFest coverage, A2Stream, Arduino, Animasia 3-D, and more!

Now it is your chance to learn NES Programming with 6502 Assembly

Pikuma has released a new course to teach you 6502 Assembly to be used on the Nintendo Entertainment System through a 22-hour-long video. At the end of the course, you’ll have a working knowledge of 6502 assembly language, a comprehensive understanding of the NES hardware, and a toy homebrew game project that we’ll code together from scratch. We’ll start with…

C64-tools.com – Handy utilities for your C64 development needs at your fingertips!

Frank Niggermann announced on the Commodore 64/128 Programming group on Facebook the availability of a neat set of tools that he, in his spare time, writes to help the development of C64 programs. As of now, the website has the following utilities: Complex 5,25″ Disk-Sleeve-Editor HiRes Character Set Screen Editor HiRes Character Set Editor HiRes Sprite Editor Multicolor Sprite Editor…

Amiga Programmer Dabbles Into Atari 8-bit With “Dragon Wood”

Dragon Wood, which Steril707 himself describes as a fantasy version of Exolon (Hewson, 1987), the legendary Amstrad CPC title. Borrmann – who is better known under the name of Tigerskunk – started programming Dragon Wood as a way to distract himself from his current project: Hyperblaster, a sequel to the notable shoot’em up Inviyya (2021) for Amiga computers and the…

New version of Scorpion Engine for Amiga has been released

Scorpion Engine 2022.7 is out, including: Mouse support (including two-player) New ability to assign assets specifically to AGA or OCS builds Another round of significant performance optimizations Many minor fixes and improvements What is it? The Scorpion Engine is a fast and flexible game creation kit for Amiga, offering a modern Windows IDE for development (The editor itself is not…