Category: Scene News

Podcast Episode #2 – The Return of Cinemaware

Extremely hot and out now! Cinemaware is back! AJ and Joerg talk to Matt Falcus and Sven Vößing from Cinemaware, who have taken their classic games to entirely new levels. Aheh… get it? Games? Levels? Cinemaware: http://www.cinemaware.com Rocket Ranger Reloaded: http://rocketrangerreloaded.com Wings! Remastered Edition: http://www.cinemawarewings.com Sven’s Retro Hunter: http://retro-hunter.de Matt’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matt_Falcus John Draper’s Health Issues/fundraising: http://www.webcrunchers.com/back-to-hospital-again/ Joerg: http://nafcom.eu AJ:…

Reset Magazine #05 Available Now

The November issue of Reset Magazine is avalaible for download following the link below. Reset Magazine is a free, non-profit fanzine dedicated to the Commodore 64 computer. Our target audience is the casual Commodore 64 user and retro computer enthusiast. Reset is distributed on the internet as a free PDF. Source: Reset Website Download: Reset #5 PDF

A Very Cool $59 Retrocomputer

Well, it is not really retro/vintage since all the project is modern, but the Micromite Companion gives you all the feeling of a Retro computer. “It’s a kit computer that is programmed in BASIC, capable of sprites, tiles, and SIDlike audio with 54K of programming space. The MMC also capable of communicating with serial, I2C, SPI, 1-wire, and other modern…

Vintage Computer Festival East 10.0 is a go!

[youtube PmqAFRNZoz8 nolink] The next edition of the Vintage Computer Festival East will happen on April 17th to 19th in Wall, New Jersey, US. The Vintage Computer Festival East is a hands-on, family-friendly celebration of computer history. It offers a book sale, classes, consignment sale, exhibit hall, food, lectures, museum tours, prizes, vendors, workshops, and more. Dozens of exhibits, classes,…

SD2IEC & Epyx Fastcart review.

You know, as I get older, it takes more and more to get me really excited like a kid at Christmas time. That giddy feeling that comes when something is really good or something good happens. Now is one of those times. Package and Intro The items came lovingly packed in a sturdy box containing both the sd2iec AND an Epyx fastloader cart….

Donkey Kong Junior – Commodore 64

Released by: Mr. SIDRelease Date: 8 November 2014 Download: Donkey_Kong_Junior.zipWebsite: CSDb

Ben Heck building an Apple-1 From Scratch – Part 1

[youtube ZXllm5JWWAs nolink] After the portable ZX Spectrum, Ben decides to take on another retro 8-bit computer project and builds an Apple 1 from scratch. He wires the CPU, ROM, and RAM to a PCB and adds some logic gates for memory addressing. With this basic 6502 computer complete, he uses an oscilloscope to take a look at what the…

Boz and Guests – BBB Ten Year Anniversary

Saturday 8th November 2014, 19:00 USRT:Boz and Guests – BBB Ten Year Anniversary – It seems impossible doesn’t it? But yes, Boz’s Bit o’ Bollocks has been running for TEN YEARS! To celebrate this milestone, Boz has asked a few guests to come along and help him have a bit of a fun celebration on a Saturday evening. Come and…

CSDb Latest Releases

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Drunk Coding, Even When Sober [pal/ntsc], 3D Roam +2D, Skijump Intro, Penetrator Preview +, WdW Pictures. Source: CSDb

Dutch Commodore User Group

The Dutch Commodore User Group had a meeting on October 18th. This Commodore user group is a very active group with six meetings every year with around a hundred or more visitors at each meeting. You can look at the photos and see how the meeting was. Website: http://commodore.hcc.nl