Category: Scene News

Amiga Forever 7 Plus Edition and Two Amiga Games for 5 bucks! (and two readers won codes!)

Together with Groupees.com, Dennis from Remute.org just started a sale campaign of Amiga Forever 7 Plus Edition and two Amiga games: Heroes Of Gorluth and Tales Of Gorluth II. It follows the idea of Humble Bundle, where you can name your price, starting at USD 4.99. To make it even more interesting, Denis kindly sent us two codes and we…

Shareware games history book in the making

Author of the well-received The Secret History of Mac Gaming, Richard Moss is now working on a new book called Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet (working title) where he is writing about shareware games released from the late-1980s through the 90s. To fund the production costs, the author is running a crowdfunding campaign at https://unbound.com/books/shareware-heroes/. Looks to me an…

2018 World of Commodore Report

For the past many years, I had loose plans to attend the World of Commodore that happens in Toronto, but for one reason or another, it never happened. This year, however, only two days before the event, I manage to confirm my presence and book the hotel. For those who aren’t as fortunate as me, here are my report with…

Haujobb Framework – Amiga Demo Development Tool being released as open source

The group Haujobb has already enriched the Amiga Demoscene with dozens and dozens of amazing demos released throughout its existence. If that wasn’t enough the group has decided to make their tools available for everybody, including examples, and extensive documentation. Back in last August, Hellfire and Noname from Haujobb held a seminar at the 2018 Evoke Demoparty in Cologne where they share…

Scene World Podcast Episode 56 – PLATO and IRATA ONLINE with Thomas Cherryhomes

PLATO is the great, great, great granddaddy of the online computer network. Developing forums, email, multiplayer networked games, screen sharing, and instant messaging, it is responsible for many of the things we take for granted today. AJ and Joerg take a deep dive with IRATA.ONLINE’s Thomas Cherryhomes into why PLATO is as awesome as it is, and how it still…

Scene World Magazine Podcast Episode #55 – Databases with retroplace and Consolevariations.com!

How do you keep track of all the different machines released over the years? How do you catalogue different versions of games, down to the different packaging? And how can you ensure that the game you’re looking for is real and authentic? Databases, that’s how! The Martin Ahman, AJ Heller and Joerg Droege talk to Fred Fischer from Consolevariations and…

MERMAN (ANDREW FISHER) REVIEWS THE EXPLODING FISH AND THE COMMODORE STORY

So this time we have 2 videos from our editor Andrew (Merman) again: 1) Exploding Fish: A special behind the scenes video looking at EXPLODING FISH from Chris Stanley and Megastyle. This video includes an unboxing of the limited edition tape version (with its Melbourne House-inspired artwork), a look at how the music was developed (composed by Merman of Scene…

Scene World Podcast #54: Gamescom 2018 Special

Our yearly gamescom podcast special (#54) has been released now: https://scene.world/gc2018podcast (video+audio versions). Martin Ahman, AJ Heller and Joerg Droege are talking about the experiences in the #retro area & biz area at our appointments EA – Electronic Arts, Konami THQNordic and Assemble Entertainment

ZX Spectrum Next – Another bump in the road

When the Project Update #37 has arrived in my mailbox yesterday, I quickly opened it with my hopes up, looking for a delivery date or something on those lines. Unfortunately, the project had another setback, now with the keyboard. Henrique was waiting for new updates from the partner handling the keyboard project on Sep 22nd, but so far, the partner hasn’t…