Category: Scene News
Tandy Assembly is the first large scale gathering of Tandy Radio Shack computer enthusiasts since the 1980s and it will take place in Chillicothe, OH on October 7th and 8th 2017. Although the TRS CoCo has its own show (CoCoFest), Tandy Assembly is the first dedicated to any computer ever made by Tandy Radio Shack, which would include from TRS-80…
In Draconic Throne you are the dragon and your objective on this new arcade MSX game is to burn to death all the enemies and defeat the prince that awaits you at the end of each level. It is always refreshing to see a game that turns upside down the usual plot, and Draconic Throne does that really well. I’ve…
MSXDev’17 is still happening at full speed and last weekend it got 3 new game entries: Mazogs, Andrea Petkovic Torneo de Tenis, and XSpelunker. When I read Mazogs, I had a fainting recollection of the name and my brain didn’t fool me. The #5 entry is a port/upgrade of the game released for the ZX81 back in 1982. If you followed…
The campaign for Games for Atari: 1977 to 1995 is in its final days and might need more people in order to reach its goal. The project objective is to publish a book (or an Encyclopedia if you will) containing all games for all Atari consoles and 8-bit computers from 1977 to 1995. The project looks gorgeous and it is…
Update: Download link fixed to point to the direct link instead. If you ever wondered how those amazing Amiga intro effects were made, now you have a chance to learn from the best! The source code of nothing less than 50 intros written in ASM-One was released back in June. We know we are late reporting it, but hopefully, this…
Immortal C64 Episode 74 – SPECIAL, Its C64 Month again! pre ep 40 tunes done with a real C64!. Track Listing : Track Number / Start Time / Artist / Track Name / Track Length 01 .. 0:00:34 – Michal Hoffman – Warmachine – 4:18 02 .. 0:04:57 – Thomas Detert – Clystron – 2:05 03 .. 0:07:07 – Steven…
Although I believe there is healthy competition among many retro news sites (with some exceptions), I also believe that the retro community is too small for divisions and as for websites, the more the merrier. With some delay, It has come to my attention that the ‘Retro Computing News’ website is closing shop, probably for good. Stuart Williams explains.. Due to…
We had a chat with our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64 recently and he has sent over some new exclusive News updates, regarding the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Below are the latest changes; Nicer running animation for Jack Some new platform chars Repaired Highscore input Game over display Repaired Jack/enemy positions on top platform row Turn animations…
As you may have noticed the site has been a bit thin on Commodore News lately, what with all the awesome ZX Spectrum News, so I have picked a few of my favourite releases from the CSDb website recently that I think are worth checking out. CSDb is a website dedicated to gathering as much information as possible about productions,…
If you like SID chiptunes or any retro-gaming-inspired instrumental music for that matter, this might be right up your alley. Phillip Gross has released a new album called ‘Katerstimmung’ with 10 tunes that have a strong connection to video games from the 80’s and 90’s. Although the tunes are not directly related to specific games, Phillip clearly shows from where…
