Category: Scene News
The games for the RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition 2014 are now available. You can test the following games yourself: Fickle, Penultimate Fantasy, Tiger Claw, Honey Bee Redux, Falling, Brick Buster, Aviator Arcade, Race, C-2048, Pixel City Skater, Voivod Attack, p0snake, Mini Arcade: Climax, Toyz and Tutti Frutti 64. Website: CSDb
A new edition of the German pdf magazine Lotek64 is now available. The articles in this edition: Lo*bert, Editorial, News, Lotek64-Story: 50 Editions, Jill of the Jungle, The Music of Commodore 64, The history of the golden C64, Petro Tyschtschenkos memories, Amiga DeskTop Video Master / Commodore 4064, Film: Die Gstettensaga – The Rise of Echselfriedl, Leisure Suit Leo II…
While we failed to report the release of the episode 7 talking about the Apple II, we are back on track to tell you that the good folks from The History of Personal Computing podcast just released the episode 8, and this time it is all about the TRS-80 Model I. The companion website also has an extensive article about…
Another great featured article discussing the Cart Wars has been published by Retro Collect. The cartridge was a medium capable of feats that pushed the consoles of the 8-64 bit era well beyond their limits. Packed with graphics chips, battery backups and even camera lenses, the evolution of the cartridge is a truly formidable tale and one that is often…
Retro Collect website has published a short review of the book “Push Start – The Art of Video Games”. “The team have obviously paid close attention to which games to include (and the titles they’ve chosen are presented so well that even the simplest art looks stunning) and the comprehension of the modern titles present is pleasantly surprising. The Last…
Scene World Podcast #3 – The Peruvian SceneDid you know that Peru had a C64 scene? No? Well, the guys over at Scene World speak to Mr Byte who played a key role in building up this scene! Website: http://sceneworld.org
[youtube IpNhWTVQeGU nolink] It is now open the Demo of the Year 2014 Competition, and only demos never released before are allowed to participate, and they have to run on stock C64 without expansions. The deadline is end of February, 2015, and after that, the voting period will happen during the month of March. The video above is the invitation…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Shitmen Intro #32, Ralph Baer Commemoration 2, Ralph Baer Commemoration 1, Attack of the Mutant Aliens +, Round 3×3 V2, Penultimate Fantasy 100% +3DF [pal/ntsc], Graveyard Opus, Fickle [16kb cartridge], Pseudo Techno, Lotek64 #50, Tutti Frutti 64 Preview +2, Brilliant Maze Music Demo, Fickle +5D, Brilliant Maze +2D, Frodigi 5, Mini-Arcade: Climax…
[youtube 5zbtNImG2NE nolink] World of Commodore 2014 happened this last weekend in Toronto. Although it is mostly a Commodore party, there is always space to show off others cool retro computers. On this video, it is shown how back in the day one should load a 4K BASIC into an Altair 8800. After all those steps, the computer will be…
The website Games that weren’t had an interview with Geoff Phillips. Geoff programmed games in the 70s 80s and 90s. He worked for the game companies Tangerine, Orpheus, First Star Software and MSU. A few examples of the games he worked on are Mighty Bombjack (C64), Elidon (MSX) and Boulderdash construction kit (Spectrum). Website: http://www.gamesthatwerent.com
