Category: Scene News

Uncle Art: Elite II Orchestral & Retrogaming Music Remakes

Dave Lowe remakes some of his most famous Amiga, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum game music & records Elite Frontier themes with real orchestra. Uncle Art: Elite II Orchestral & Retrogaming Music Remakes is a new Kickstarter project started by Holly Jazz Lowe. The ProjectIn the 80s and 90s, my dad Dave Lowe who also went under the name ‘Uncle…

Bruce Lee II v1.9

Released by: Jonas HulténRelease Date: 7 April 2015 This update contains the following changes from the initial version.* There was a place where you could be spawning and fall to your death immediately. This has been removed.* You can skip the intro with the Commodore key to force kernal loading without seeing the entire intro.* Sprite graphics was overwritten after…

Majesty Of Sprites – New Plus/4 Game Preview

[youtube 3PERRdR5dlk nolink] Majesty Of Sprites is a hardcoding experiment under the pretences of a no scrolling Giana Sisters’ like game running in multicolor bitmap, full of software sprites, gorgeous backgrounds, evil jumps to perform and diamonds and hearts to collect! Bauknecht has shown this preview version at Revision, reaching 4th place in the generic Game Developing competition. It allows…

The 68000 Wars

You have to read this! It is a two-part article telling the story about the Amiga, but also touching its main competitors: Atari and Apple Macintosh. At the beginning the article doesn’t start as I was expecting: The Amiga, especially in its original 1985 incarnation, was a terrible computer. The operating system that shipped with it was painfully buggy. If…

CSDb Latest Releases

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Let’s end it Tonight, Battle of Ilona, Pilzwald, Dude – Got Your Dosage?, C64 Charset Minion v0.7 beta, Defender Vibes, Peace and Love, Bomb, 25 Years TRSI-Tribute, Vulcan Salute, GoatLight, Reset #06, Reset #06 Intro, Timeline, Return of Heracles +15, $777, Return of Heracles +M v0.9.1, Return of Heracles +MD, Loose Teeth…

K&A Plus Issue #01

Neurocide contacted us to give us the heads up about a new English & Polish Commodore scene magazine called ‘K&A Plus’. This will be a quarterly magazine and currently contains 72 pages of fresh news, game reviews, an interview with Iranian C64 Community Contributor, and much more! Download the first issue below .. Download: K&A_Plus_01_EN.pdf, K&A_Plus_01_PL.pdfSource: Neurocide, CSDb

Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller

[youtube qCK0p5PtqrA nolink] Anthony Stiller previously released “Sopwiths and Pterradons” for Reset Magazine, in late 2014. Now Anthony strikes back in 2015 to deliver this year’s SEUCK compo “Abyssonaut”. Abyssonaut is a horizontal scrolling SEUCK game in which you attempt an underwater rescue mission to save the whales from being trapped by poachers. Although you attempt to remove the whale…

C64 intros

The web page c64Intros have updated their intro database and they have added 50 new intros and 21 new groups. Also 75 replaced intros which needed better cleaning and crunching. New groups added: 3lux, The Bionic Force [TBF], Buddha the Trainer God, Cannon, Comtec, Density, The Expert Group [TEG], Fart, Hamburger Software Group 2112, Inferno (NL), The Infiltrators (DK), Lightning,…

AMIcast #002

AMIcast is an English podcast about the world of Amiga. In this episode: An interview with Epsilon. Amiga NG, software and emulation. Music: Tidal and Illumination. The Mifilos web pages en 30 year Amiga in Amsterdam. Website: http://amicast.ppa.pl

durexForth v1.32

Hack n’ Trade released a new version of Forth for the Commodore 64. Forth is a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. Forth on the C64 is faster, more memory effective and more powerful than the standard Basic. Forth on the C64 includes an editor, compiler and an assembler. Changes in this version: Optimizations for the parameter…