Category: Scene News
This is a lovely cute Xmas game (2D platformer) designed for Xmas 2015. The author, Nitta Mituaki, is a “Jet Set Willy” clone game collector, so this Christmas he send us this special gift which was created by map editor of “Jet Set Billy” coded Niilo Paasivirta. All graphics and music were made by Mituaki. To complete the game, you (Santa…
There is always space in our heart to read about the Commodore history and my favourite part is the beginning of the 8-bit era culminating with the Commodore 64. The website LowEndMac has published a good summary of that era with the article “A History of Commodore’s 8-bit Computers” by Dan Knight. The article starts with a short paragraph about…
Bob Bishop’s own, personal, APPLE II computer, serial number A2S1-0013 is available for auction on eBay. Bob is the author of the famous program Apple-Vision, a program in hi-res graphics that drew a room with a TV, and after the picture was complete, the man on the screen danced to the song “Turkey In The Straw”. [youtube RiWE-aO-cyU nolink] Later…
Retroinvaders website has made available the Commodore 64 Calendar 2016. Created by Josepzin from Retroinvaders using the theme “Prizes Commodore manía 2014/15”. Each month of the year gets an illustration from a release competing in the compo. There are versions for several languages, including Spanish, German, Portuguese and English. All area available on CSDb as PDF files, ready to be printed….
To make things more interesting, English Amiga Board and Lemon Amiga have teamed up to hold a competition involving five games where high scores are chased over several weeks until an ultimate winner emerges. To make the competitors life easier, Erik Hogan put together a compilation containing the games for the compo.It’s a Knockout! 2015-2016 Amiga CD32 Compilation has been released including the…
Revenge! is a magazine in PDF devoted to games and vintage hardware as well as emulation of various systems. Some of the featured articles and reviews this month: Megaman Hysteria Reviews Wings of Fury Trivial Pursuit Console Forever Download: Rev’n’GE
It was announced that MacGUI website will fade out and eventually close over the next few months. “Dog Cow” explained that last year he started to downsize his collection giving away tons of Mac related materials to whoever was willing to pay for postage. Now, the website, which has already been downsized as well will eventually close down. “Dog Cow” wants…
Scene World has introduced a new feature – Video Reviews of new Hardware and Software for your C64. Kevin Casteels, aka Alterus starts by reviewing the latest hardware for the C64: The WIFI modem, created by Schema. [youtube TeuQVKRsObk nolink] Link: Scene World
For the Amiga community, AmigaRemix is very well-known for many years, but for many of our readers, it might be something new. AmigaRemix has added this week a batch of new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. This is the list: Dune 2 (Ingame ambient mix) Stardust Memories – daXX Remix Apidya – The Pond (Save The Last…
Amiga Meditations’ Stuart Williams tells us the story of the Amiga 1500. Yes, that is not a typo, it is not Amiga 500 or 1000 or 1200, it is the Amiga 1500, sold exclusively by Commodore UK. But also he offers interesting details about another A1500 available at that time, which was, in essence, an upgrade kit for the A500….
