After holding a group-email discussion with the entrants, RGCD has decided to extend the competition deadline by two months. The final date to submit your project is now midnight between the 31st March and the 1st April (00:00 GMT on the 1st April 2016). Following this update, the organization has confirmed that most of the contestants still are in active…
Retro Commodore website motto is Your place with high quality scans, and to confirm that objective, tomse has published the Commodore document ‘Overview of Advanced Amiga Architecture and Other Future Directions’ released in 1993 for the ’93 Developers Conference. The document was provided by PET/Dexion As usual, tomse’s OCD (this is a compliment!) is delivering a high-quality PDF file of the 193-page document…
We at Scene World Magazine have been active again with software and hardware reviews as video! Jon looked at the Christmas releases: [youtube XgrhtgHxmNE nolink] and Kevin looked at the new C64 Reloaded by Individual Computers! [youtube oT3hSbBGU9Y nolink] Please enjoy and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more in the future! :) Website: http://youtube.sceneworld.org
We’ve talked about that before, but if you didn’t read, know that Sam’s Journey is a brand-new original scrolling platform game for the Commodore 64 with huge levels to be explored, hidden items to be found and secret passages to be discovered. The game is yet to be released this year and we can’t wait to see that happen. Knights of…
MSXdev’15 received its 3rd entry: Bubbo World by Team N.I., an action game where the main goal is to collect all the gold ingot spread all around the screen. The character can drop ladders to get to the gold and also, he can warp to a random spot in the screen when there is no exit. Green rocks fall from the top of the…
This 2-part article, written by Jimmy Maher on the ‘The Digital Antiquarian’ blog tackles software piracy, since the dawn of personal computing. The first part focus on the history, starting with the open letter Bill Gates wrote back in 1976, asking the hobbyists to not copy Micro-soft software and explaining how software copyright came to be. The second part is actually my favorite,…
Plus/4 World has made available several BASIC games that were never available online before. The website user 264er_Fan purchased a disk collection from eBay, which had some previously unknown games on it. Six of these come from Mark Lünnemann, a German programmer, who also wrote Pyramid Guy: Crack World, Dead of Night, Diamonds Man, Gallows Man, Sticknadel, Tunnel John. The…
When 2015 was coming to an end, somewhere in the MSX Resource Center headquarters the whole website saw its whole life flashes before its eyes when the server two hard disks decided to crash at the same time. We all, retro computing enthusiasts were breathless with the possibility of losing invaluable content related to MSX. The most important MSX site stayed…
ADTWin is a free tool for writing Amiga disks from a PC. It requires a Windows PC with a parallel port and a floppy disk drive that is connected to the PC’s parallel port by a self-made cable. The disk content has to be provided in form of an Amiga Disk File. Only the original double-density Amiga disk format (for 880kB disks) is…
Ranarama is an action game developed by Graftgold in 1987 and published by Hewson Consultants. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. You see Amiga on that list? No, right? Thankfully, Galahad/FLT user on English Amiga Board decided to invest his time to make that port happen, letting all the Amiga fans to enjoy…
