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Last month, the Glenside Color Computer Club announced it would be rescheduling this year’s Chicago CoCoFEST! due to the Coronavirus/Covic-19 pandemic. This was unfortunate, because 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer, and the 29th annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST! event. As of this posting, no new date has been announced, but discussions have been had…
The traditional Apple II enthusiasts summer camp is following the trend and moving the event to the virtual world. Although the event happens in July, the organizers rightfully decided to cancel the face-to-face gathering due to the current pandemic. Initially it was hoped that the world and national situation would be sufficiently improved by July that we could proceed as…
Just a quick one because I like this game. Major Blink was ported to the Atari XL/XE more than a year ago, and recently the game got a 5200 version which included many improvements over the original port. Since “what goes around comes around” but in a good way, the Atari XL/XE is getting back the improvements made for the…
Quantum Sheep has announced the immediate availability of Jumpin’ Jupiter, a new platform game for the ZX Spectrum. Int the game, you play Jupiter, and your objective is to find all cups of tea that have been scattered across the solar system. Heavily inspired in Manic Miner, the game relies on your ability to avoid the enemies and environmental hazards…
After eight years, Jan Johnsen (Norway) gives us some nice new features of his game Rocket Rescue for the Ataru XL/XE. Rocket Rescue is one of those mixed bags of different games that worked very well. The game uses elements of shoot’em up games, Lunar Lander and Choplifter. Your objective is to rescue astronauts and to accomplish that you have…
Has it really been forty years since Pac-Man first showed up? My, how time flies when you’re having fun (at the arcade). In honor of this milestone, another icon of the arcade era has returned. In 1981, during the height of the video arcade revolution, Bucker & Garcia released the now-iconic single Pac-Man Fever. The song was followed by a…
Another Basic 10Liner contest is over and the winners were announced this weekend, with Atari and Commodore programs dominating the first places, but also showing a strong presence of MSX participants. With NOMAN 2020 cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an online streaming event was used to announce the scores of all 159 programs that were running for the four…
Back in 2017, I was pretty excited about the ZX Spectrum Next crowdfunding campaign and the whole idea of the modern retro computer. However, I remember to tell people that the “Next” part of the project wasn’t that interesting to me. As a “purist” retro collector, I didn’t care too much about a modern computer with modern capabilities but with…
Ghost Town is an adventure game written by Udo Gertz with design by Peter Hartmann in 1985 and released for the C16 & Plus/4 by Kingsoft GmbH. It’s an adventure game where the player has to solve puzzles by finding items and progress screen by screen to the final battle with the evil wizard Belegro. The game is very unforgiving,…
In the world of retro reproductions, the Commodore 128 is the red-headed stepchild, with the least attention from enthusiasts. That is, until now! Johan Grip joins AJ and Joerg to talk about the C128 Neo, a replica PCB designed to help preserve these vintage machines. (interview starts at 13:40) http://scene.world/c128neo
