Category: Scene News

Space Quest and other Sierra classics available now as Humble Bundle

You can now revive the Roger Wilco adventures and many other created by Sierra Online for cheap! The new Humble “Sierra” Bundle brings Space Quest, Police Quest and many other amazing games for the price you want. For $15 or more you can also get the King’s Quest collection! As usual, the Humble Bundle gives you Steam keys that you can…

The PEDISK-II Clone Project

The CGRS MICROTECH PEDISK II was an early floppy disk system for the Commodore PET/CBM computer. The PEDISK did not use the IEEE bus like the Commodore disk drives, but instead used a standard floppy disk controller chip connected to the inside of the PET/CBM machine. It could support both 5.25″ and 8″ standard floppy mechanisms as configured from the…

Amiga 3400/Computer Collection Vienna

Stefan Egger (Computer Collection Vienna) has purchased an Amiga 3400, a computer that later became the Amiga 4000. It’s a functional unit and there are some differences from the later series production. Some missing parts (upper housing part, HDD holder bracket for the floppy drive, Joyport sheet etc.) are soon to complete the unit. The bracket for the floppy drive is not identical to…

Amiga Racer (Inspired by the Lotus Series) Version 3.62

If you love the Lotus games on Amiga, then Amiga Racer by Michael St Neitzel should be the next Racing game you should check out! Requirements are: PowerPC (PPC) CPU 1 GHz, ATI graphics card, keyboard, joystick, sound card and Amiga OS 4.1 FE. Latest Version is 3.62 and you can download it now over at OS4Depot. Also available on the Official Website for the…

WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 3 Update – The Worlds Greatest Amiga Emulator!

Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 3.4.0 beta 3. (beta 2 must of been released fast as we didn’t even notice!) WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to…

Sam Mallard – The Case of the Missing Swan, Fantastic New ZX Spectrum Graphical Text Adventure!

Ersh over at World of Spectrum Forums has released a new graphical text adventure game for the ZX Spectrum. The game was originally planned to be created on the Commodore 64, ten years ago! The game is coded from scratch in assembly. The code, puzzles, story and additional pictures took Ersh just over a month to put together. Below is the game’s description…

ZX Spectrum Shoot 'em up- A Yankee in Iraq (2016 revival)

Way back in 1992, Ast_A_Moore over at World of Spectrum Forums wrote a shoot-em-up called A Yankee in Iraq. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. He decided to revive the game and have another look over it. The only thing he was able to find was the BASIC file; the rest of the assets, the loading screen, music, and UDG were…

Scene World Podcast #25 – Jon Hare talking about Sociable Soccer & Gamescom 2016 Special

……..in which we talk about what kind of interviews we have done and recorded that are available in our youtube Gamescom 2016 Playlist! Jon is a leading figure in the action soccer genre and he is the one known for the action soccer hits Sensible Soccer and Microprose soccer as well! In this episode he talks about the future of…

New Homebrew Amstrad CPC Games recap

We thought we would gather a list of the last few releases of Amstrad CPC Hombrew games on the scene. There are some fantastic games here not to be missed! Click the links to read about them and in most cases there will be a download in the thread, Enjoy :) Golden Tail (youtube) Heroes Rescue! The Return of Traxtor (youtube)…

Coleco – The Official Book – Available to Purchase Now!

It’s Christmas 1982. You just got your very first home video game system and the most powerful one on the market, the ColecoVision. After plugging it and enjoying it for a while you begin to wonder: who is Coleco? Where is it located? Whose vision came to fruition to offer me this console? For the very first time, discover the…