Category: Scene News
Freeze64 has established itself as a mandatory reading for all Commodore 64 enthusiasts out there with rich content that will satisfy the retro gamer, the collector, and even the retro programmer. Issue 14 is now available with the following content: Cosmic Cruiser Cover Feature Interview With Gary Penn Making Of Cosmic Cruiser With Paul Clansey Desert Island Disks With Chris…
Retroworks has released the excellent ‘The sword of Ianna’ earlier this year for both the ZX Spectrum and MSX2 line of computers and if you have played the game, or watched a video about it you might have thought “How they manage to create a game like that! It is so good!”. Well, like Retroworks listened to your thoughts, they just…
Athanor – The awakening is a vector-based graphic adventure game created by Erik Safar for the Oric and Amstrad. Eric “Majikeyric” had ported it for the Commodore 64 and now he just announced that the game can also be played on the C16 and Plus/4, thanks to a port made by Megastyle. Athanor takes place in the south of Italy in…
If you happen to be in Europe or more precisely in Italy by the end of November, you should try to add Florence to your travel plans. There is a retro reason for that! This year the “Firenze Vintage Bit Onlus Club” decided to celebrate the 30 years of the Amiga 500 with a special event that will happen on…
Henrique Olifiers has sent, on behalf of the ZX Spectrum Next team, a new update on the backers Kickstarter page stating that the “board-only” backers will start to have their boards shipped on November 27th. The current plan is to build 20 boards on November 16th and have them thoroughly tested and validated on the next day by Henrique himself….
It is happening on CSDb (Commodore Scene Database), from 9 to 23 of October, a competition to find the best PETSCII graphics. As the name suggests, the participants can only rely on PETSCII characters to draw any kind of illustrations. Although it is low resolution, the results are incredible. As people say, a good artist can work with any tool and…
The site Nostalgiamatica is offering a calendar for the next year that will please the Antic podcast hosts and the rest of the Atari enthusiasts around the world. The 2018 Atari 800XL calendar is ready to show off many Atari games in a 21×28 cm 200mg glossy paper. Each month will feature a screenshot of one of the favorite games,…
Henrique Olifiers has posted an update about the Spectrum Next updates. Here is our summary: Boards Production The bad: the board-only deadline has passed by more than a month and the new date is not defined yet. The good: all the components are now delivered to the factory, including the RAM sockets that had to be hand-spooled into a reel to so…
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) homebrew scene has never been stronger with many amazing releases in cartridge happening for the past few years. We at VITNO are excited to support the homebrew scene and we will start to post about games that are being released as well as games that were released recently. Mega Cat Studios’ City Trouble is a side-scroller…
This year has been amazing for homebrew games for the Commodore 64, like the excellent Bear Essentials by Pond Software (actually released at the end of Dec 2016!), but Sam’s Journey by Knights of Bytes is probably the most expected game in recent times. You have been able to pre-order Sam’s Journey since July but now Protovision has announced that…
