Category: Scene News
CSDb user Slajerek has released a new tool called C64 Debugger. It is a C64 and 1541 Drive code and memory debugger that works in real time. The tool runs emulated in a C64, but to make your life easier it is distributed embedded as a standalone executable using the C64SC engine. Link: CSDb
The Spectrum Next is, in my opinion, causing more buzz around the retro-computing community than the VEGA and as consequence, people want to know more details about the project. The website Flickering Myth has published an interview with Henrique Olifiers, who is part of the team bringing the ZX Spectrum Next to us. Probably the most interesting piece of information the…
New podcast!Darren Melbourne, creator of the C64 DTV, is trying to bring the C64 back with The 64, a reimagining of the Commodore 64 in both console and handheld form. Listen to us talk to him about this new project, and how his history has led to what he’s doing now! http://sceneworld.org/blog/2016/05/28/podcast-episode-22-the-64-with-darren-melbourne/
As we, retro “stuff” enthusiasts know, time flies. Turrican II was released 25 years ago, and to celebrate that mark and talk about this iconic game, Pedro Loureiro made a new episode of his video series. It’s a Pixel Thing episode 90 brings a lot of information about that Amiga classic. Pedro doesn’t stop pleasing the game soundtrack and other…
The season of game development competition is open, with many compos for many platforms. This one is being organized by Reset Magazine with the theme “Craptastic”, which features the traditional crap game competition that is found on other platforms as well. The games can only use 4Kb of memory which limits a lot the use of graphics, but it is…
The University of Alicante has launched the 4th edition of CPCRetroDev, the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. Offering 1050 Euros in prizes, divided in 3 categories, the game competition calls for participants. Anyone interested to participate can send his/her entry until October 26th, 2016 (23h59m CEST timezone). The categories and prizes are as follows: Special awards 125 €…
ABBUC Software Development Competition 2016 for Atari is a go and although there are not much information yet, we know that it will have two categories this year: Games and Applications. Also, the organizers let us know that the first place on each category will get 500€! If you didn’t get started yet it is better to hurry, since the…
From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years has now been released digitally exclusively on Vimeo on Demand. From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years tells the story of how the Commodore Amiga was created and then how once released in 1985 it went onto to help change not only the way games were played and experienced but also how they were designed for…
Hoxs64 Commodore 64 emulator for Windows was updated to version 1.0.8.9. Although not as “famous” as VICE, Hoxs64 aims to be compatible with the real machine in all details. The update has a small fix for a problem found in “Vandalism News #64″, where a write to the raster compare register was causing a raster IRQ to occur one clock too soon….
Rob McMullen from Atari Player/Missile podcast and Kevin Savetz (Antic Podcast) joined forces to disassemble, document and hack Jumpman, a platform game written by Randy Glover and released by Epyx in 1983. The documentation has already 26 pages and the plan is to release it to the public when it is done. For now, both Atari enthusiasts have been tinkering with the game,…
