Vintage Computer Festival East is starting today, March 31 and goes until April 2nd at InfoAge Science Center in New Jersey. The show is targeted for the whole family (but we know we would enjoy it the most!) with conferences, exhibit, vendor stands and more. In terms of presentations, the show will have Bill Herd talking about Surface Mount Technology,…
The next already traditional RetroChallenge will start in a few days, April 1st and as of now has 11 participants. Although this is already a great number to make it interesting, the organizers are seeking for more courageous retro enthusiasts that are willing to spend the month of April working on a specific retro computer related project, blog about it…
A new Amiga-oriented magazine in English has been announced – Amiga User will be published by amiga.net.pl in July and it will cover both the classic and new generation systems, emulators and other Amiga-related goodies. The issue #0 will feature: Practical design in MaxonCAD the fastest hardware for Amiga system how to create legendary Boing animation in Hollywood E-UAE and…
Yes, you read it right! On March 17th, 2017, Adobe Illustrator turned 30 years old! Since it is a piece of software that are still being developed and is relevant to this day, we never think of it as something that has started back in the 80’s. Released in 1987, Illustrator changes the way designers create graphics for all sorts of…
I don’t think there is a single soul that will disagree the Commodore 64 sound chip, the MOS 6581 best known as SID, has changed how the computers make sound and music. Even today, there is an active demo scene dedicated to composing astonishing chiptunes using the SID chip. The Conversation website has published an article that is a celebration of…
Ron Gilbert has finally announced the sales price of his new retro-styled adventure game Thimbleweed Park. For those (*cough*me*cough*) that didn’t get in on the Kickstarter, you’ll be able to pick it up on March 30th on GOG, Steam, and Xbox for the low, low price of $20 US (or equivalent, presumably). In case you missed it, Thimbleweed Park is…
Playtonic is about to launch Yooka-Laylee for the Nintendo Switch, as well as PC, XBOX One and PS4. We can’t wait to play the official successor to Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie, it’s gonna be awesome! I’m sure just like us, you have all been waiting for the third installment for some time now. Now you’re probably wondering why we are talking about…
Matthew Hamilton has released a brand new TRS-80 Model III Emulator for Windows – Sharp80! It includes: Model III computer running at standard 2.03MHz (can be run faster) Full Z-80 emulation including all undocumented opcodes Emulation of a floppy disk controller supporting 4 virtual floppy drives Support for all major virtual floppy formats (DMK, JV3, JV1) Windowed and fullscreen (Alt-Enter)…
Our staff member Jon explains how to rescue data from C64 disks that are moldy and mildew! Save your data now! http://scene.world/diskrescue
Our all-times favorite Windows IDE for Commodore 64 development, CBM prg Studio has a new version available. The version 3.10.0 brings a nice list of new features and some bug fixes. Assembler: Increased sprite included limits to 256. ‘Memory overwrite’ error is now a warning. Use CTRL+[ and CTRL+] to go to previous/next label definition. Sprite Editor: Added new functionality…
