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Hey readers! This article has a sibling, an episode of the Retro Gaming Bygones podcast titled “Before They Were Monoliths: Activision”. Check it out at https://www.anchor.fm/retrogamingbygones or wherever you gather your podcasts (Apple, Google, Spotify, etc.). With revenue of 5.54 billion dollars in 2020, Electronic Arts has cemented themselves as the number two gaming company in the world. And though…
On October 9th, 2021, the ScummVM (https://www.scummvm.org) team celebrated the 20th Anniversary of their brilliant game engine emulator with a new 2.5.0 release. This release brings along many new features including: Full implementation of the 2.5D game engine emulator, ResidualVM, for emulation of such titles as Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey and Myst 3: Exile. Addition of ten new game…
Andrew Fisher is an author, journalist, coder, musician, and scholar of all things Commodore. He’s a contributor to Retro Gamer Magazine, and also one of the main editors of Scene World. AJ and Joerg catch up with him, talk about his career, and get very, very sidetracked. (interview begins at 10:55) https://scene.world/merman there is even a video version:
It was published today on CSDb a new SD2IEC storage device for the Commodore 64, the MSD2IEC. As explained by the C64 Club Berlin, the device is a standard SD2IEC but with an interesting addition: a 8Kb EEPROM that adds commands to the machine’s built-in BASIC allowing the user to browse the SD Card contents without an application! From the user…
We have talked about Sam’s Journey, a brand-new original scrolling platform game developed for the Commodore 64 home computer. It’s about a cute little hero called Sam who finds himself on an unexpected journey in a strange world. Knights of Bytes has release a new teaser video, showing the hero discover another costume that gives him a white cap and…
This is the follow up of Sergey’s blog post where he writes about the details of building a ZX Spectrum clone using a Harlequin board. Follow the link below for more details. Link: Sergey’s Blog
Retro Commodore website brings high-quality scans for you Commodore machines. Today, they made available three new (old) books for the Commodore 64. Commodore 64 Assembler Workshop by Bruce Smith A pocket handbook for the Commodore 64 by Peter Gerrard & Danny Doyle A childs guide to the Commodore 64 by John Dewhirst. Retro Commodore PDF are usually larger than the average…
Arthur has released the version 3.7.0 of the “highly acclaimed” Windows IDE for the C64, CBM prg Studio. Two big new features in this version are: SID Emulation. Finally, after years in development, you can listen to the sounds created with the tool! Support for abbreviate BASIC commands (pO for poke, ? for print etc.) plus tools to compress and uncompress…
Coleco Chameleon seemed to be destined for success, at least based only on its appearance at Toy Fair. Well, the cartridge-based retro console is no more. First there were accusations of the use of a false prototype. Users from Atariage were able to spot, from inside a translucent case, a Hicap50B CCTV DVR capture card pretending to be the console…
Last Ninja Musicology Kickstarter project was first reported here a while back, and we were pretty excited to see it fully backed and released. Based on the samples provided by the Kickstarter campaign the music was going to be legendary! Unfortunately, System 3 who owns ‘The Last Ninja’ intellectual property, filed a complaint based on the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright…
