Guys, we just made it in time for Gamescom 2019! Scene World#29 is out for the C64 and the Amiga, get it from our homepage at https://www.sceneworld.org ! Also believe it or not, thanks to combined offers and with the help of the coder of the Scripted Amiga, SWO Amiga is also running in a webbrowser from our homepage now!…
With the home computer boom of the 1980’s, everyone wanted a slice of the pie, including some unlikely candidates such as British Telecom. While it was good to talk, the phone network giant thought it was good to play games too, setting up Telecomsoft who, in turn, gave birth to three successful publishing offshoots in Firebird, Rainbird and Silverbird until…
Christian Gleinser is the guy behind Dr. Wuro Industries and some of the most popular and unique games to come out for the C64 in decades. He joins AJ and Joerg to talk about how he got started, where he gets inspiration for creating such unique products, and where he’s headed in the future. Also, AJ learns some German. (Interview…
Arkagis Revolution is a new top-down shooter for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive with mode 7 style rotation. Mode 7 is the term referring to the capability to fully rotate the background, creating amazing effects, like the one seen on Arkagis Revolution (see video at the end of this article). The game website gives the tone of the game: “The story happens…
I believe we are living the golden age of modern hardware accessories for vintage computers with many options of SD Card storage, Wifi Modem, ethernet connections, video converters, etc. Some of these are commercially available using proprietary hardware, but many others were released as open-source projects. The advantage of the latter is that you can build the device yourself, or…
In the latest release of the popular podcast “Retro Island Diskettes” hosted by Neil from RetroManCave and Dr Andrew Armstrong from The Backoffice Show we hear the life story of veteran developer Tim Gilberts. Tim was responsible for many titles but is perhaps most well known for The Quill, a text adventure game toolkit which allowed anyone to create interactive…
Double Sided Games is pleased to announced that they are now taking pre-orders for their upcoming Commodore 64 game, Vegetables Deluxe. Vegetables Deluxe is a match 3 style puzzle game, developed by Mike Richmond, with the objective to swap adjacent vegetable shapes to form lines of three or more in a row. When this occurs, those shapes are destroyed and…
















