Category: Scene News
Backing a Kickstarter usually comes with a certain degree of risk, since the project can fail and be gone with you money. This is not the case here! Commodore 64: a visual Compendium Second Edition by Sam Dyer from Bitmap Books. He has proven he is capable of delivering a high-quality product, sometimes surpassing any expectation and with this campaign, that already…
Usually, CSDb has way too many amazing graphic works being published every week, so I rather not post them here all the time. Our visitor friends can always browse the CSDb database to see them and be amazed by the level of the artists from C64 Demoscene. Today I am making an exception, though. As a big fan of the ‘Monkey Island’ franchise,…
BOMBER, a game for the Atari XL/XE, made the second place at the 2015 ABBUC-Software-Competition and now it is available for purchase as a limited boxed edition. All the games were recorded on never used floppies to ensure quality and reliability. The box also contains a download code for BOMBER in three formats: Bootdisk, DOS-Disk and .xex-File. The game can be ordered…
For most of us, if not all of us, getting books from the 80s in PDF form is nothing really new, as we are used getting them from several different sources, including Internet Archive, Bombjack.org and many others. Nonetheless, it is newsworthy when a publishing house decided to post his 1980s catalog for free. The books are mostly targetted to…
DrHonz was feeling extra generous today and has also published the source codes of Manic Miner. The zip file available contains the D64 image file with the game ready to be played, as well as all the assembler source code to be compiled using DASM. As far as I could see, the source code is super well organized and full…
DrHonz (Honz Liepa) has released on CSDb a batch of several Boulder Dash games, with the source code included. There are a new release plus several others that were released in the past. I am always excited when I see releases with the source included, which helps to share knowledge and bring more C64 enthusiasts up to speed which could,…
The Obligement Amiga website published the results of its pool which let you chose the best Amiga games of 2015. The list below shows the 3 first places of each category and the link will take you to a gameplay video (or info page), in case you haven’t seen them before! AmigaOS (68k): Zerosphere – Code Red / Alexander Grupe SQRXZ 3 –…
Reset Magazine issue #8 has just been released. The issue brings lots of articles, news and game reviews like of Daffy Duck, Heroes & Cowards, Knight ‘N’ Grail and much more. On the magazine website, you can also download the companion floppy containing Jump Ninja and Blap ‘n Bash, Nuclear Strike Force (they couldn’t stick a real disk on the PDF cover, sorry!)…
Rainbow Walker was published by Synapse Software in 1983 for the Atari 8-bit. Developed by Steve Coleman, it is an arcade game where you control Cedrick, a small creature that has the power to add colours back to the rainbow after a villain had stolen all the colors leaving the rainbow gray and dull. The AtariAge forum user Wrathchild managed to make the conversion…
The Return of Heracles is an adventure game for the Commodore 64 (and other machines) written by Stuart Smith and published by Quality Software in 1983, where you can play as many heroes from Greek myth. Thirty-three years have passed and he Fairlight demoscene group has released a cracked version with a trainer and custom loader. You can download the game…
