Category: Scene News
Rio de Janeiro has everything to offer: beaches, sun, Carnaval, and beautiful people. But for most of us, all that really doesn’t matter unless we still can have our yellowed retro computing fix, right!? If that is your case and you happen to be in Brazil on May 31st, this is your lucky day! The 7th RetroRio will receive you…
Portuguese-speaking people out there, rejoice! Another retro magazine in print is ready for the debut! The first issue of the Brazilian magazine Clube MSX will be available for pre-order tomorrow, May 15th. The quarterly magazine will be sold only in print with the first issue presenting 40 pages in full colour. The official release will happen during the 2018 RetroRio,…
It has recently been announced, on the Lemon64 forums, that Ste’86 and Excess are working on Speedball 2 Ultimate, an incremental improvement to the classic Speedball 2:Brutal Deluxe developed by the Bitmap Brothers back in 1990, for the Commodore 64. While the actual game-play mechanic for Speedball 2 looks like it will remain unchanged, Ste’86 and Excess are looking to…
Here are the latest C64 releases over at CSDb. I have highlighted specific titles I think will interest you guys. There’s also quite a few new EasyFlash releases to check out too. Click each name for more information and download link. ;-) Gauntlet 3 [easyflash], Strike Fleet [1581,FD-2000,CMD-HD], Saint Dragon [easyflash], Galaxy Force 2 [easyflash], Max n Jackie, R-Type +9DMHI, Essential…
The 2018 Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) competition is currently underway, organised by The New Dimension (headed by Richard Bayliss) who are known for producing a library of freeware games for the Commodore 64. The current iteration of the SEUCK competition has been running for a couple of months now with three entrants (The Last Hugger, Atom Heart & Valkyrie…
WebMSX is a fully featured MSX emulator that supports nine generic MSX machines using both PAL and NTSC. Developed using Javascript/HTML5, the emulator runs on any platform, and it was tested in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. A new version 5.0 was made available recently with the following features: NetPlay! Connect several users on the same Virtual MSX machine over the…
Roy Johan Widding contacted me today to let me know that Endurion (Georg Rottensteiner) will be one of the new game coders in Megastyle together with Scroll (Ruben SPaans), Docster (Kåre Johannesen), FX, (David Eriksson) and Microbit (Chris Stanley). For those of you that aren’t aware, Megastyle are the guys who are working on the upcoming c64 game Mancave –…
California-based chiptune composers 8 Bit Weapon (Seth and Michelle Sternberger) recently unveiled their new album to the world on April 23 2018. Named “8 Bit Weapon” (presumably after the group themselves), the new release comprises 7 tracks that experiment heavily with the original Game Boy 8-bit CPU/4-bit sound chip to create an album with a distinctly industrial vibe, mixed up…
Knight Lore is an isometric action adventure game originally published in 1984 by Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum. Being the third game released as part of the classic Sabreman series, Knight Lore is generally considered to be one of the most seminal games to be released in the 80s vintage PC era and is often citied as…
MsMadLemon has recently uploaded part 4 of her C64Ultimate II+ Multi-Part Video Series. In this new video Maddi explores backup and restoration of real floppy disks and cassette games using the 1541 Ultimate II+ Cartridge by Gideon’s Logic Architectures. Games featured in this video are The Bear Essentials and the classic Arkanoid! [vsw id=”33yiIUptpnE” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]YouTube: MsMadLemon
