Category: Retro News
AJ and Joerg start off their series to dig into what’s going on about gaming in Jamaica – For this episode we’re happy to welcome Wayne Benjamin. He is one of the most influential video game and Esports journalists from Jamaica. Enjoy! (interview begins at 18:00) https://scene.world/thelabvideogametv
Retroaccion, the organizers of the event RetroMañía, has announced a new programming contest which objective is to pay homage to the first video game ever written – SpaceWar!, programmed in 1962 for the PDP-1 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. The contest asks for the participants to write a game…
A new release of SDCC, the portable optimizing C compiler for STM8, MCS-51, DS390, HC08, S08, Z80, Z180, Rabbit, SM83, eZ80 in Z80 mode, Z80N, TLCS-90, 6502, Padauk and PIC microprocessors is now available. Among many new features, the ubiquitous compiler has started to support 6502 output. The development is still ongoing but progresses fast. SDCC 4.2.0 New Feature List:…
Another game entered the MSXDev’22 competition. This time is a simple, but well-made WORDLE clone. I imagine the rules are well-known: you have five changes to guess the right 5-letter word. If you guessed the right letter but it is in the wrong position, it will be highlighted in yellow. If the letter and placement is correct, it will show…
This month’s RNG C64 Round-Up shows a 7-minute preview of the upcoming game Lykia – The Lost Island, an adorable and clever adventure that rivals toe-to-toe any early Legend of Zelda. The JRPG game will be available for purchase as a double disk or USB cassette by Psytronik, cartridge by Protovision, and the best of all, a digital version will…
I’ve been playing catch up with some of the most interesting events in the retro community, and MSXDev’22 is one of my favourites. This year’s contest started in early January and will run until September 30th, 2022. The first entry is already in and it is a classic-style MSX1 arcade game. In this game, dubbed Shadow Switcher, you and your shadow…
Thanks to MPAGD (Multiplatform Arcade Game Design by Jonathan Cauldwell), there are a lot of cool platform games created for the ZX Spectrum and one of the latest releases using the tool is The Man with the Golden Joystick, a fun platform game where you control Hitch, from the RetroHitch channel on Twitch who plays the games he streams playing…
I am a bit late on this, but I couldn’t let it pass unreported here. On January 29th, the great Portuguese website Planeta Sinclair held an online event in which they announced the results of the 2021 GOTY. Last night I watched the show and was very happy to see many quality games being made for the ZX Spectrum, and…
In our new episode we welcome Gunnar Vonn Boehn from the one and only Apollo Team. They are known for their stellar Vampire cards which are a must for every Amiga fan. Interview starts at 37:38 Minutes https://scene.world/vampire Or watch its video version:
In our new podcast episode we are happy to have Nicola and Anthony Caulfield: a filmmaking team from London, responsible for awesome documentaries like From Bedrooms To Billions and its sequel The Amiga Years. We are talking with them about their new project The Rubber-Keyed Wonder – a documentary about the ZX Spectrum which is currently on Kickstarter. Interview starts…
