Category: Scene News

Commoflage 43

This episode of Commoflage is all about game music. You can listen to: Frank Endler – Task III, Rune-Bertil’s – Delta, Robert Mansfield – Mission AD, Hazel – Nemesis The Warlock, LMan & Sunflower – Follow Me, Reyn Ouwehand – Thanatos, Fby – The Last Ninja, Martin Galway – Wizball subtune 7, Rob Hubbard – Auf Wiedersehen, Monty, Ron &…

Retrochallenge 2015/01 is alive

Starting with a healthy 21 competitors the 2015 competition is now LIVE! In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. Retrochallenge 2015/01 competition will run from New Years Day, January 1st to the end of the month, Saturday 31st January 2015. Typically the organizers will…

Classic Computing: The Complete Historically Brewed – Order or Download Now!

It’s like getting the history of computer history nostalgia, all in one book! All ten issues of the groundbreaking computer history “zine” (newsletter / magazine) Historically Brewed & Classic Computing – in one professionally bound volume. Also includes the personal background story of David Greelish, Publisher and Editor (writer for many of the stories too). The entire run of issues…

Interview with demoscener 'Made'

Carlos Pardo, also known as Made in the demoscene world, is an highly-skilled graphist on modern platform that initially started on Amstrad CPC. He gave a great (and long) interview to norecess.cpcscene.net. Indeed, the CPC 6128 was my first computer. All started in 1988, my best friend and neighbor just had a brand new Amstrad 464. The home computing was…

MultiMax cartridge for sale

MultiMax is the ultimate cartridge for the (among others) Commodore MAX Machine (also known as Commodore Ultimax) game console. It contains all software titles (a total of 24, many with multiple versions) ever released by Commodore for this machine, selectable from a convenient power-on menu. A reset button is also included so that you do not need to power-cycle your…

Merry Christmas from Commodore is Awesome

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :) Below you can download our little Christmas demo for your enjoyment. We have tested the demo on the last three versions of WinVice and also runs great on a PAL Commodore 64. Have fun :) Download: christmas_is_awesome_3.d64CSDb: http://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=135584Pouet: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64738Watch on YouTube

Commodore Free #85

A new edition of the English pdf, text, seq, d64, html and Ebook magazine is now available. In this edition the following: Editorial, Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #16, News for the C64, Plus/4, VIC20 and Amiga users. C64 Book, Creating a GEOS File Icon, Interviews: Alex Smith and Brian Green, Transfer SEQ Files to Evernote, Bulletin Board System, Review: Alter…

Star Trek: The Next Generation – C64

Jason Orriss released a new tactical game for the Commodore 64. He wrote the game in the late 90’s in the programming language BASIC. The game includes the LCARS interface which stands for Library Computer Access / Retrieval System. Download: Star Trek – The Next Generation.d64Website: CSDb

After 38 years of glory, the long run of Dr. Dobb's has come to an end.

The Dr Dobb’s Journal hasn’t been printed for a while, and now, with sadness, I learned that even the website is closing down. On a long editorial, Andrew Binstock has confirmed that the website is not generating revenue like it was used to do, despite the big number of visitors. In one word, revenue. Four years ago, when I came…

CSDb Latest Releases

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Somewhere, Commodore Free #84, Shining, Julemix Demo, 2Pack – First Contact, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Rotator Intro, Chubby Chubby SID Chip, Heretic, Schwiinng!, MODplayer Loader, Blackjack aka Twenty-One +2 DE, Bubble Wobble Intro, Another Scary Intro, Macaroons, Pirates of the Caribbean, Savage [jewel], Cacciata dal Paradiso Terrestre, AFL-Intro 2014 #03, Psycho…