Category: Scene News

MG Tracker V0.71

The MG Tracker is a music editor that utilises the Matt Gray Commodore 64 Dominator Replayer. Changes in this version: New UI design by Isildur/Samar!, New keyboard shortcuts, portable dialogs and multiplatform. The program is available for MacOS, Windows and Linux. Download: MG Tracker V0.71

Duck Out, A New Work in Progress Amstrad CPC Game

Originally a Speccy title, Duck Out! is 2D side-scrolling beat’em up. The player controls a cartoon duck with a frying pan, who escapes from a restaurant and heads to the local park to meet his date with a girl. Along the way, this crazy duck ends up fighting numerous enemies such as scary middle aged men, cats, dogs and lizards! The…

Kung Fu Maniacs Trilogy by Psytronik Software

Alf Yngve has kindly sent us over a review copy of the upcoming release, Kung Fu Maniacs Trilogy. We reviewed 1,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs way back in 2011, you can read the full review here. I am going to concentrate more on the third game of this Trilogy as I feel that most, if not all of you, are already familiar…

Scene World Podcast #7: Tess & Tel – Tess Fries and Jeroen Tel as guests!

Podcast #7 (this time with video version included!) Brand new and just released, our podcast episode number #7 where AJ Heller and Joerg interview the music stars Jeroen Tel and Tess Fries about their past, current and upcoming projects as Tess & Tel! Super exciting and for the first time also in a video version available! Watch it here: http://sceneworld.org

ZX Spectrum – The Hobbit 128K edition

Kayamon from the World Of Spectrum forums has released a long awaited game for the ZX Spectrum 128. The Hobbit 128K edition! Featuring: Mick Farrow’s fabulous new loading screen. The slow old vector-based artwork has been replaced by 55 new bitmap screens, ported from the C64, BBC, and DOS disk versions. Many thanks to the efforts of the numerous WoS…

Stormfinch – ZX Spectrum Shmup!

Stormfinch is a bicolour shoot ’em upThe game contains 10 challenging levels, 9 bosses, level completed every 1000 points, a whopping 64 different attack waves, and if you get that far, an End of game sequence. [youtube G0Wsqz9nsoc nolink] Download: stormfinh_rrfin0.tapForum Thread: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forumsWesbite: http://www.worldofspectrum.org

Lander 2 – Sega Master System Homebrew!

The purpose of the game is to make your rocket land safely on landing areas (horizontal with red dots) without using all your fuel. How to play:– press 1 to start and pass texts– press 2 when you lost to restart from the first level– press down to decrease vertical speed– press left/right to change horizontal speedWarning: acceleration is in…

ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium by Bitmap Books

A book that celebrates the beauty of the ZX Spectrum. Full of pixel art, iconic box art and contributions from industry legends. Sinclair ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium will focus on the visual side of the computer; from in-game pixel art to game maps to box artwork, the book will be crammed full of beautiful high-resolution, full-colour imagery. The ZX…

High Voltage TED Collection

The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is a collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. At the moment there are 426 files available in the database. Website: http://plus4world.powweb.com

The Champ/The Suppliers interview

The guys over at C64.com have added an interview with Kurt Lekanger. Kurt was active in the Commodore scene from 1985 until 1990 in the group The Suppliers. In this group he started as a swapper, but later he started making demos and cracked a few games. Website: http://www.c64.com