Category: Scene News

'Nightmare Busters' – New game for SNES in cartridge

  Nightmare Busters is a new run & gun game developed through the partnership of Super Fighter Team and the game’s developers, Christophe Gayraud and Jean-Christophe Alessandri. “Synchronized with the wavelength of dreams, the miserable Tyrant has discovered a way to enter them and convolute what children see, hear and feel while they sleep — all for the benefit of…

REV'n'GE Magazine Issue 49 is out

Retro Emulator Vision and Game (REV’n’GE) issue 49 in both Italian and English editions. The contents of the February issue: Altered Destiny Alternate Reality: The City Astro Pinball CDTV Genlock Dem Doctor Doom’s Revenge Genesis: Beyond the Revelation Rescue of Lorri in Lorrinitron Rescue on Fractalus! Retribution Rick Dangerous The magazine is available as free download following the link below….

C64 chipmusic album 'Disassembly Language' Official video

8-bit Weapon has released the first official video for the track “Phase I – Lexical Analysis” off the new album “Disassembly Language: Ambient Music for Deprogramming Vol. 1”. [youtube zBUqM1VvPkQ nolink] They explain that the video was shot off a real Commodore 1902 monitor to boot, though the camera was at an angle to give it a pseudo 3d perspective. Pretty nice…

The community need your help to create a "Retro" Stack Overflow (no money involved!)

Stack Overflow is a site for question and answers widely used by the software development community. It is valuable because all issues and answers can receive up/down votes, and they stay forever, accessible at any time. This is the second attempt to create a Stack Exchange site exclusive for vintage computer hobbyists interested in restoring, preserving, and using the classic computer and…

Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom – New Game for the C64

Imagine Flappy Birds for the C64… Now, imagine it better than Flappy Birds, with better graphics, better music and even better gameplay. That is  Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom! The game has been released today on CSDb showing how good a simple game can be on our favorite 35-year-old platform. Developed by Andreas Gustafsson, with music and graphics by Vanja Utne, the…

Help Floppy Days Podcast to pick a new logo!

Randy Kindig can’t stand his podcast logo anymore so he is holding a contest to choose the logo that will be used not only online but also for promotional materials (t-shirts, pins, etc). During the month of January, several Floppy Days Facebook Group members (including myself – but I won’t say which logo is mine!) made several logos and because…

Amiga Future Magazine #119 – Preview

Amiga Future #119 is planned to be available in March, but you can check what they are baking for you. Previews: Playfield, Spice Obsession Mod for Dune 2, Amiga Racer. Reviews: Elves Dreamland, Shokaku, Beam, Zerosphere, Kikugi, Luettje Bookholler, Simplemail, OS4 Depot, Redit, AISS, MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.10, DosBox pn AmigaOS 4, XBench, Portable AmiKit MK2, C64 Forever 2016, KMTech…

RGCD C64 game 'Tiger Claw' almost ready to be shipped

In an update posted today, RGCD’s James Monkman let us know that a special version of ‘Tiger Claw’, the 2nd place in RGCD’s 2014 competition, is almost ready to be shipped. This release is an exclusive Kickstarter cartridge version that will only get in the hands of the backers of the campaign that contributed to the cartridge level or above (£70+). The artwork is done (see picture…

Music of Commodore 64 game "Cybernoid" remake – Listen now!

Jeroen Tell from Maniacs of Noise has published a preview of the music remake of the title theme from the Commodore 64 game “Cybernoid”, originally published in 1988 by Hewson Consultants Ltd. The music is still a work in progress and it will be part of the album “Tell Me More” with remakes of C64 game music. When ready the…

Amstrad CPC demoparty next June in France

The biggest french Amstrad CPC party, the ReSeT #28, will take place in Coutances – France from 24th-26th June 2016. It is open to all computer enthusiast and for everyone who is intersted in coding, electronics, graphics, music, etc..  Competitions: Demo: No size limit. The entry must be runnable on CPC 6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension. Intro (256b,…