The Facebook group Ottawa Vintage Computer Enthusiasts held on Nov 5th the first “real life” meetup. The meeting was held at the Makerspace North, which kindly let us use their excellent installations. Makerspace North was the best possible place to have the meeting as retro computing and the maker scene have so much in common as well as a very convenient location….
Now we are finally up and running with the new look website, our next plan is migrating some pages from CiA. Fred Fish disks, 17Bit Software Public Domain, Box Art, Articles and Reviews. Currently the games pages are up on the site but they still need some work, mostly screenshots and adding new games. Keep an eye on the site…
Freeze64, the Ultimate game cheat fanzine for the Commodore 64 has a new issue available for you to order. The printed magazine brings lots of Commodore 64 content, from games to programming techniques and interviews. This issue content: HUNCHBACK COVER FEATURE: We celebrate Ocean Software’s popular and successful platform arcade game Hunchback, sharing some of our POKES and CODES and…
Imanok, a prolific MSX game developer has announced that he’s taking pre-orders of his upcoming game ‘Tina’s Adventure Island’ for the MSX. According to the developer, you only need an MSX1 computer to play the 64Kb game, which features 35 stages and including 5 bosses. I played a bit of the demo available and the side scroller platformer game shows…
Open Apple podcast is now available for download to entertain you during your commute! This month’s episode brings a lenght interview with Alex Lee, the creator and maintainer of the “to-go” Apple IIgs website – What Is The Apple IIgs? “Alex walks through the history of IIgs emulators, and all the ways that the IIgs Finder was actually better than the Mac….
Finally, we have had the chance to talk in our podcast with Tectoy Sa’s chairman Stefano Arnhold! a Brazilian company that helped Sega gain a foothold in South America. AJ and Joerg welcome him to the podcast to talk about his history with the company and with gaming, and about Tectoy’s new Mega Drive Limited. Enjoy listening! Website: Scene World
We have finally finished what we have been working so hard on for the past few months. A complete move to Google Cloud server, (should be much more stable and faster). Brand new up to date theme, with custom code pages for games and magazines, and full mobile support. We have also edited the theme a bit to our taste,…
Kevin Savetz (of Antic – The Atari 8-bit Podcast) and Carrington Vanston (of the Retro Computing Roundtable) have launched a brand new, fabulous podcast about text adventure games. In this new podcast, Carrington and Kevin will chose a classic text adventure game, play it for a month, and then talk about it together for our listening pleasure. They reminisce about…
You may have noticed it’s been quiet here these last few days, and we haven’t been updating the News much. Well there’s good reason for this, we have been adding the final touches to the new improved ‘Vintage is the New Old’ website and we are coming close to the big reveal, which we hope will be before Christmas. I…
AJ and Joerg welcome Reiner Krapohl and Senad Palic from For Amusement Only and the Flipper- und Arcademuseum, Seligenstadt, to the podcast to talk about their unique video game and pinball museum. this time there is a video version to watch included! :) Website: sceneworld.org
