Category: Scene News
James Monkman aka Heavy Stylus from RGCD website has given us exclusive heads up on two awesome Commodore 64 titles releases. Rocket Smash EX is available to purchase now and Gravitrix has not been released yet and price has not been finalised, but should be similar-ish pricing to Rocket Smash. Both will be available initially on cartridge then on disk…
For 32 years, the smallest implementation of a chess game would run on a ZX-81. Back in 1983, the Your Computer Magazine had the 672-bytes program listed in its February issue, and the same program held the world record for 32 years. Geek.com has published yesterday an article showing that the world record was broken by a chess game called…
Friday 30th January 2015, 19:00 USRT: Gurt – Radio Awesome Sunday 1st February 2015, 11:00 USRT: Gazoo and Phil – PMPVsTokyo Saturday 7th February 2015, 19:00 USRT: SLAY Staff with ROTY Awards 2014 Saturday 14th February 2015, 19:00 USRT: Boz – BBB Valentine’s Massacre Source: http://www.slayradio.org
Some will buy a vintage computer out of Craigslist, some will be happy with a nice emulation, but not Dirk Grappendorf. He decided to create his own MOS6502 based computer from scratch. On his website he tells a bit more about his experiences building his machine, describing the project development in a chronological order. Every step adds some more components…
The Independent (UK) features an article discussing the documentary ‘From Bedrooms To Billions’, showing the birth of game development on the early 80’s. The ‘revolution’ was driven by young people that saw on game development their way to money and success. You can watch ‘From Bedrooms To Billions’ online at frombedroomstobillions.com Link: The Independent
Retrobattlestations is promoting a 6502 week until the end of January, and to participate you have to send a picture of video of a machine that is powered by a 6502. Here are the rules: To participate in the contest you need to make a new post to RetroBattlestations of a picture or video that you shot of hardware that…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Baffle 101% +2HF [pal/ntsc], The Last Ninja Demo, Onslaught Intro [Hellfire V4], The Eidolon +6D, Scramble +3 V2, Booter V1.0.3, Scramble +3 V1, EasyFlash 3 USB Utilities V1.8, Scramble, Onslaught Intro, Populous Preview, Cyborg C*Base Patcher V3.0, G.o.Drex, Xain +, Xain, Composition #1. Source: CSDb
On June 27th 2015 there will be a meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to celebrate 30 years of Amiga history. There will be many Amiga computers on display but also the KryoFlux team, Dave Haynie, David Pleasance, Christian Bartsch, István Fábián, Ultimate PPC team, Franck Sauer, Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott. Website: http://fo.hn/amiga30/
The CGSC (Compute’s Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!’s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute’s Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13896 MUS, 4135 STR and…
A new version of the USB utilities program for the Easy Flash 3 is now available. Changes in this version: Added a TAP writing option, developed by enthusi. And it is now possible to send a PRG file to the EF3 Menu running on the c64 and autorun it. Removed an error in the copy routine and in the format…
