Category: Scene News

Encrypted Juiced.GS Magazine (April's Fool Joke)

  Since we have very angry visitors (I am looking at you Commodore community), we don’t do any prank or fake article for April 1st in respect to them. That don’t prevent us from posting something about someone else’s jokes containing a note stating that it is an April fool’s joke, of course. This one came from Apple II Juiced.GS…

ZX Spectrum game dev compo closed for new submissions. Time to play and vote!

ZX Dev’15 has finished its first phase where then game entries are submitted. The compo has received 15 games that you can now download, play and vote! With that many games, we can say the compo response was more than excellent and now to be completely successful, it needs your help to choose the best games.  The entries are: Complica DX…

Byte Cellar's interview with the group behind the Apple Lisa’s First demo, “Le Requiem de Lisa”

Blake Patterson has published on his blog “The Byte Cellar” an interview he made with the members of a group responsible for the first demo for the Apple Lisa. The interview happened via IRC channel back in 2011, and he now decided to take it from his archive and make it public. Even being four years old, it is fascinating…

'The Lands Of Zador' – New *amazing* game for Commodore Plus/4

After the amazing game ‘Majesty of Sprites’, the group Bauknecht has released a new game, ‘The Lands of Zador’, another jump’n’run platform game for the Plus/4. The game got the 3rd place of the game competition on Revision 2016, featuring 8 super colorful and beautifully design levels where the character, Kate, must complete some tasks in any single level to go further in…

The ultimate plug&play dual SID solution for your Commodore 64 and 128!

‘Project SIDFX’ is a new hardware expansion for any C64, SX-64, and C128 allowing them to use 1 or 2 SIDs chips, even of different models! Currently accepting pre-orders, the new board looks very powerful allowing the user to switch between SID chips while playing the tune.For now, this can be achieved via a hardware switch, but the board is prepared…

Sam's Journey – Watch the new video of the gorgeous upcoming C64 game

We have talked about Sam’s Journey, a brand-new original scrolling platform game developed for the Commodore 64 home computer. It’s about a cute little hero called Sam who finds himself on an unexpected journey in a strange world. Knights of Bytes has release a new teaser video, showing the hero discover another costume that gives him a white cap and…

'Retro PC Mania' – New game for iPhone tests your retro skills

There is a new game for iOS devices that is all about knowing your retro computers. ‘Retro PC Mania’ tests your knowledge with three game modes: Identify the model looking at the pictures Tell the brand name of the machine displayed Try to select the year of introduction of a computer The game doesn’t have the most incredible graphics but…

Amiga Future Magazine Issue 93 – You can read it online for free!

That is an interesting move made by the Amiga Future people. The issue 93 (Dec/2011) is sold out and because of that, you can read the magazine in full, for free. Although it is an old issue, people that were always on the fence and never bought any issue,  it is a great opportunity to see how the magazine is made…

Coleco Chameleon – After losing Coleco support, RetroVGS vanishes

Coleco Chameleon seemed to be destined for success, at least based only on its appearance at Toy Fair. Well, the cartridge-based retro console is no more. First there were accusations of the use of a false prototype. Users from Atariage were able to spot, from inside a translucent case, a Hicap50B CCTV DVR capture card pretending to be the console…

'The Last Ninja Musicology' campaign hits a legal roadblock and is interrupted

Last Ninja Musicology Kickstarter project was first reported here a while back, and we were pretty excited to see it fully backed and released. Based on the samples provided by the Kickstarter campaign the music was going to be legendary! Unfortunately, System 3 who owns ‘The Last Ninja’ intellectual property, filed a complaint based on the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright…