Category: Scene News
I remember when I was 13 years old and I’ve got my first wristwatch, a CASIO that had a shoot’em up game. The game was simple, but I spent so much time playing it that the watch battery had to be replaced sooner than I imagined. LCD games are unique on the way they are built, with pre-defined images that are…
MSX is not well known in North America but is very popular in Japan, Europe, and Brazil. The hardware of the 1st generation is very similar to the Colecovision, and the games present great graphics and sound. To increase awareness of the platform as well as to bring new homebrew games, MSXDev organizers a competition every year and the results…
Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. Episode 12.1, Łukasz Kucharuk interview is now available to listen and download. Download: Amiga-Ireland-S01E12.1-Luke-Kucharuk.mp3 Website: amigausers.ie
The World of Next website is a new independent resource for finding and sharing ZX Spectrum Next software. As the Next community grows and evolves, more and more software, games, demos and utilities will be written and this site aims to be the #1 resource. In time, you will be able to browse a large database, rate and comment on…
Chester Kollschen has been producing groundbreaking games on the C64 for over two decades. AJ and Joerg talk to him about his acclaimed new game, Sam’s Journey by Knights of Bytes & Protovision, as well as about his past, and what might be in his future (hint: it’s not a racing game). Listen to it at: http://scene.world/samsjourney
The traditional Retro Challenge is happening again throughout the month of April. The contest asks you to “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for a month”. It is a great way to take that old project from the drawer and finish it. It could be a hardware project, a computer restoration, a new application or game,…
This new Chris Hülsbeck tribute album released by “German Remix Group” contains a total of 19 songs, and is completely free to download. The track list includes some really great remixes of well known games such as Turrican, Turrican 2 and The Great Giana Sisters! Go grab it now! ;-) CD1 Turrican 2 ⋅ The Final Challenge (Dr.Future Remix) Jim…
Among the many CSDb releases that show up every day, sometimes we see something that stands out for many reason. It can be technical excellence, skilled coding, or beautiful art. Sometimes there are some that excel on all of above! That’s the case of Game Art Beyond by Bliss. The program itself is a slide show that presents incredible graphics…
In a post published on January 17th, Kevin Watkins announced his decision to create a new programming language targeting the ZX Spectrum Next: The idea to do so originally came from the Facebook group for the ZX Spectrum Next, a new FPGA computer based that is an enhanced version of the ZX Spectrum, the computer I first started to program on…
I love magazines that talk about retro computing and/or retro gaming, from Retro Gamer to Juiced.GS, from Reset 64 to CommodoreFree to mention only a few. Now, there is a new kid on the block – Paleotronic Magazine! The first issue takes a look at the history of the Consumer Electronics Show including interviews with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and…
