Category: Scene News
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga Chiptunes music disk, titled “Snowchips”. Aaron’s new Christmas disk contains 9 Awesome tunes to listen to, including music from the new C64 game, Galencia! The file is adf format and has been tested on WinUAE A1200, A4000 specs and real hardware (Amiga 1200/030). Download from the link below and crank up the…
Our old friend Carsten ‘tomse’ Jensen has produced two amazing calendars for the year of 2018. One containing all months on one single page, and the other, the traditional one page per month. Both are full of our all-time favorite C64 game images! The calendars are in PDF and ready to be printed. If you were looking for a calendar, consider…
Amitopia has published a nice article revealing that the Amiga sound chip was already capable of play high-quality 14bit sound back in 1985. At the time, the limit was the 68000 that couldn’t get the machine to play raw 14bit wave files. Not sure if that is common knowledge but it is a surprise to me, just proving how advanced…
I hope the title of this post won’t be seen as a bait&click one, as in this new game for the ZX Spectrum you play as a chess piece, but you don’t play the chess game! Knight Hero is an arcade/action platform game where you play as the knight, the only chess piece that didn’t get enprisoned by their enemies….
Slime, a game created by Mr. NOP and released last year for the Commodore 64 (reported here), got a new version just in time for the World of Commodore, which happened last weekend in Toronto, Canada. There are the additional features added to the game: A loading picture Bug fixed the level display Bonus life at 10,000 points Starts in single…
R-Tape from the ZX Spectrum Next forums has recently released a fantastic new Christmas ZX Spectrum Tape Magazine called Woot! Features: -A Next article -Games/Demos from Bob Fossil, TextVoyage, Spud, R-Tape, Mat Gubbins, Utz, Ste Nichols -Articles, puzzles, stuff from various contributors of the scene. Download: Woot_2017_final.zip Download: WOOT_ZXMAS_tapemagazine.zip Source: ZX Spectrum Next Forums
It was uploaded to the Internet Archive the only issue of Databar Magazine, a publication that tried to offer type in programs for its readers in a very innovative way. Instead of the traditional listings with source code in the pages of the magazine, Databar presented the programs in the form of a barcode. The proprietary Databar OSCAR scanner was…
Today, I came across this blog post on Ken Shirriff’s blog where he describes how to print a Christmas card on an IBM 1401 mainframe, a pretty popular low-end computer sold throughout the 60’s. Driven by the Reddit’s Retrobattlestation challenge for this month, the blog post is super interesting not only for the Xmas card itself but because it gives us a…
The backers that opted in to get the ZX Spectrum Next board were happy to see their packages waiting for them at their doorstep but as soon some of them hooked it up, they were surprised by some unforeseen problems. The main issues are related to the keyboard, HDMI, and problems with the screen. Early this morning, Henrique Olifiers wrote a…
After a long time without new issues, Pro(c) Atari magazine is back. To make up for the time lost, the magazine now has a new format and more pages. The issue #13 brings 104 pages full of Atari goodness, including: Perplexity Sikor’s Atari-Party Achilles DungeonLord Spelunker Rain Of Terror Spare Change Boulderdash – Turn your sceens into a game Diamondz 2…
