Category: Scene News
Many of RGCD formerly out-of-stock games are now available to buy again. Hot off the assembly line, Super Bread Box, Bomberland, C64anabalt, Guns ‘N’ Ghosts, Powerglove and Rocket Smash EX are back on the virtual shelves in our online store. There are also few remaining cartridges of P0 Snake and Gravitrix and after they are gone, there won’t be more available…
The official ASSASSIN CREW youtube channel has published a music collection with 45 songs that were converted from the Commodore 64 to the Plus/4. Assassin Crew is a group responsible for many releases for the Plus/4 including Xplode Man and Memento, and once more, they surprised us with this excellent chiptunes selection! [youtube wcwCmYcmTno nolink]
880 Gamer is a English pdf magazine for the Amiga user focused on games. This issue brings several interesting articles and reviews including Game On!: Cartoon Classics Pack, Tearaway Thomas, Belial, Fears, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge and Star Wars. If having great articles wasn’t enough, the magazine download file also includes an ADF file containing Lotus III and tearaway Thomas. Link:…
A new and improved version of Dingo for the Spectrum is available for download The changes in the 2015 version (version 1.3) are; A much improved control method. This was the bug-bear for many people with the original release, but it’s now MUCH better. Enemy pre-spawn warning – so you can see where the Dingos are about to appear and…
KansasFest 2016, the 28th annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 19 – 24 in Kansas City, Missouri. This edition will have a very important presence, Mike Harvey, founder and publisher of Nibble magazine, the “Magazine for Apple II Enthusiasts”. Nibble was published between 1980 and 1992. KansasFest is an annual convention offering Apple II users and retrocomputing enthusiasts…
Today, we have released a very special episode of the Scene World Magazine podcast, with starting to have a look at the history of the magazine with founding members Silvio and Andrew Fisher! Thanks guys for being a part of this for 15+ years! Listen to it here: http://goo.gl/krDzPP
Before browser-based games, before the Internet, there was darkness….oops, I mean BBS Door games. PCMag has published today a featured article talking about this way people used to play games online at the time online meant BBS (Bulletin Board Systems). “Once connected to these mostly hobby-run services, users could bring up a list of games to play. These early online games…
Usually retro computer enthusiasts have a “thing” for pixelated graphics. This is so true that you can see the myriad of modern games mimicking 8 or 16 bits graphics being released all the time. I have to confess that I am one of those, but I sometimes go further and graphics like the TRS-80 and ZX81 just makes me happy….
After holding a group-email discussion with the entrants, RGCD has decided to extend the competition deadline by two months. The final date to submit your project is now midnight between the 31st March and the 1st April (00:00 GMT on the 1st April 2016). Following this update, the organization has confirmed that most of the contestants still are in active…
Retro Commodore website motto is Your place with high quality scans, and to confirm that objective, tomse has published the Commodore document ‘Overview of Advanced Amiga Architecture and Other Future Directions’ released in 1993 for the ’93 Developers Conference. The document was provided by PET/Dexion As usual, tomse’s OCD (this is a compliment!) is delivering a high-quality PDF file of the 193-page document…
