Category: Scene News
If you haven’t noticed yet, the retro computing scene is alive and more active than ever! What better proof of that than a brand new language that can only be used on 30+-year-old computers! After a few beta releases in the past couple months, PLASMA (Proto Language AsSeMbler for Apple) 1.0 is finally officially out. PLASMA is a medium level…
Rob Hubbard is one of the best known composers of video game music, and has been producing music on the C64 as well as many other machines for decades. AJ and Joerg talk to him about the recently completed PROJECT HUBBARD, his career, and the future of game music. sceneworld.org
Akio Tenshi has released a new C64 remix album titltled Summer Memories 1. Distant Space Signals 2. Chinese Restaurant 3. Weather 4. Lost Friend 5. In Da House 6. Uncertain Plans 7. Summer Memories 8. Hot Style Intro 9. Colourless 2 10. Hexadragon 11. Trackmo Final 12. Magic Afternoon Purchase for $5: akiotenshi.bandcamp.com
Scene World Podcast #43! Talking about Bitpop with composer Gavin Graham! Awesome interview in which you will learn a lot about SID music styles, C64 sound drivers, and bitpopping of course! Listen to it! scene.world/bitpopmusic
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Excess Crack Intro 1986 SCG Style, Killed Until Dead +D [easyflash], Happuh naar ‘t BBSje, Steel Ranger +3C Trainer, Retaliate Preview 3 +3, Blockchain, Retaliate V0.3 Final Beta, Pains ‘n’ Aches +8D, Goodbye, Nightly Guide, Tink Tonk Castle Clobber +, Excess Intro #32, IK Ring World, Crazy Cars III +6D [easyflash], Adlib…
Amiga Users Ireland Website is the home of the fantastic Amiga Ireland Podcast. Episode 12, ‘Once More with Feeling’ is now available to listen and download. Download: Amiga-Ireland-podcast-S01E12-Once-More-with-Feeling.mp3 Website: amigausers.ie
Info Guide is a Russian e-zine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum. For all of us that don’t speak Russian, the issue #12 is not fully translated to English. It includes: a large collection of new beeper engines city history collected by many people, with the photos of old papers, books, and catalogs several articles about 3D effects the internals of some games…
I was going over my feed looking for good news to post here when I found this one coming from NintendoAge and at first, I thought I’d got the wrong idea. After reading it a couple of times, I realized we are talking about a six-figure bounty reward for the original artwork used for the game Contra released for the…
Kotaku has published an interesting article reporting that Activision’s Dragster for the Atari 2600 World record set by Todd Rogers 35 years ago was removed from Twin Galaxies, an organization that tracks video game records and high scores. Although Rogers had proved his feat using a Polaroid photo, people now believe that he managed to fool everybody until today. Kotaku continues…
Mighty Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-’em-up released in 1993 for the NES just got a ZX Spectrum port! This game is a spinoff of the arcade Final Fight, but with a different art style, with all characters following the Chibi style (big heads and childish bodies). Developed by the Alexander Udotov (Sanchez), with graphics by Eugene Rogulin (ER), and music…
