The December 2017 edition of TRS8BIT is now available from the downloads page, with well over 60 pages of news, reviews and general chit-chat for you to enjoy. There is news about the ‘Super Card Pro’ from cbmstuff.com, Ian Mavric has 4 articles, ranging from Tandy’s work with agriculture, down under, a review of his visit to the TA in Ohio, further…
As the ZX Spectrum Next boards leave the assembly line and head to the hands of the backers that opted for the board-only, Carlos Henrique Olifiers thought it would be very important to have a guide ready before the users receive their units. The ZX Spectrum Next board 2A is the first public version of the platform. It’s a bare…
MSXDev’17 has come to an end and the organization posted the results by category: MSX Classic WINNER: XSpelunker! XSpelunker: 8.3/10 Draconic Throne: 8.2/10 Tales of Popolon: 7.6/10 Mazogs: 5.86/10 Slime Center: 5.7/10 Magical Tower Adventure: 4.4/10 Andrea Petkovic Torneo de Tenis: 3.8/10 SKULLrs: 2.6/10 [vsw id=”-7O2Bz_6Oc8″ source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] MSX Freestyle WINNER: ΧΙ∧∃Χ! ΧΙ∧∃Χ (Zevimodoki): 7.04/10 Sweet Punch: 5/10 Other…
We were contacted by Robert Hurst about a project he’s behind aiming the revival of a BBS Door game. Here is what he has to say about it: “One of the first BBSes we had in our state of Rhode Island was The Roundtable, which was more of an online game for social networking rather than the files & posts that…
David Fox is a game designer and programmer that worked on some of LucasArts’ most memorable games, as well as the new Thimbleweed Park. AJ and Joerg talk to him about his history in the games industry, and his experience coming back to the point-and-click adventure genre. Website: scene.world
Glen Hewlett has published throughout the month of November five articles explaining how to setup and use interrupts on the TRS-80 Color Computer. He starts his blog talking about his motivation and objectives: Recently I was working on my MIDI to CoCo converter program and I wanted to output the data with an option that would include the player that…
VCF East XII happened earlier this year and if you weren’t able to attend in person, you can now watch the presentations on YouTube. Presentations like the Vintage Computing with Raspberry Pi with Dave Test, Commodore PET Repair with Todd George, Apple II Repair with Corey Cohen and many others are now part of the VCF YouTube channel. We are thrilled to see that…
Arcade Attack has published an interview with Al Alcorn, the designer of PONG, which we can all agree, is a landmark in the video-game history. The short, but entertaining interview focused on the time Al started at Atari and was tasked to create the arcade that helped to create the video game industry as we know it. You can check…
As you can see, the site is having less posts because I am enjoying my time in Brazil with my family (an acquiring some retro gems!). While my folks are getting ready for another family function, I was checking my emails and saw another update from the Next developers. The good news is that there is no news! As promised,…
As every year, Scene World has also had a booth at the biggest game fair in Europe: Gamescom! AJ, Martin Ahman and Joerg have a look at the experiences and interviews Scene World had this year. Check it out at https://scene.world/gc2017pc Video version: See the full interviews with everybody at gamescom at your Gamescom 2017 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFSso4eV-9U73fX9DMmPLu46VSRtA-xpv #gamescom #gamescom2017, #sceneworld,…
