Category: Scene News
An unknown militarized terrorist unit, known as the X-Force, has occupied the peaceful city of Suburbia. As the top pilot in the world’s anti-terrorist squad the job of defeating the terrorists falls to you! Flying your state of the art attack helicopter you are sent into what seems to be a straight forward seek-and-destroy mission – but as the story…
Project Sidologie by Marcel Donné – this luxury box set evokes classic JARRE using C64 music remixes, and offers stems and samples too. See Twitter, Facebook Page for updates #Sidologie #WaitingForJarre See Kicktraq for stats, progress and to watch the projections. NEW ALBUM STRETCH GOAL ADDED: Chariots of SID, Vangelis-inspired C64 remixes by Marcel. The AMAZING flaming chariots artwork can be…
[youtube Fq-uRYi4IRA nolink] Hewson are launching a retro soundtrack album on 8th May – 11 incredible tracks from 10 classic Hewson games, remade by legendary artists like Ben Daglish, Steve Turner, Jeroen Tel and Matt Gray. Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers is available to pre-order now with two instant tracks and 40% discount on iTunes via www.hewsonconsultants.com. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hewsonconsultants
[youtube e0SKePMwepU nolink] Magot is a fast paced single screen platform/shooter and consists of 7 worlds composed of 7 to 17 levels (not counting bonus and the secret levels), each with a different setting and a final boss to fight. There is an ingame shop in which the player can buy new spells and power ups and some rooms of…
BBC has published a 5-episode podcast to discuss the computer languages that had (or still have) great impact in the computer industry – Codes that Changed the World. Each one of the first four episodes cover the languages FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, and Java, with a fifth episode discussing how so many different languages are able to coexist. As excepted we…
VCF East is now part of the history that it tries to tell. The last event took place last weekend, and it seems whoever was able to attend had a blast! If you, like myself, couldn’t be there, you can have a glimpse of the event visiting the link below, containing some nice photos of the event. Link: VCF East…
Retro Computing Roundtable Episode 98 is out. One of the things we like to do with old computers is program them. With modern computers, running editors and emulators, we can do some things a lot easier than we could when dealing directly with the classic machines. Do you have any favorite tools and tips for doing this sort of thing?…
Released by: Samar ProductionsRelease Date: 28 March 2015Type: C64 One-File Demo Notes: Please use WinVICE V2.4. Set Extra SID chips at Settings/SID settings.Best played with SID model 8580R5 1489 (ReSID-fp). Download: ef-by-samar.d64News Source: CSDb
[youtube oAz_q0AhXW0 nolink] Great News for all you Commodore 64 fans! Hackersoft will be releasing their future crazy hack releases via Commodore is Awesome! This means that you will be able to download Vinny’s very latest releases here ‘Exclusively’ on CIA! The first release from Hackersoft/CiA is called Rent-a-cop which was originally a game made in 2012 by Achim Volkers….
As you may have noticed on the World of Spectrum website, the forums have been unavailable for some time now, but fear not as there is a temporary forum available and is already pretty active considering it hasn’t been up for very long. I stumbled upon a couple of speccy games there which are defintly worth a play. First up…
