[youtube cictUOfIJwA nolink] Great news coming directly from subreddit Retrobattlestations: The CPCRetroDev is a yearly game development competition held in Spain. The competition aims at discovering talented developers by asking them to develop retro games for 80’s machines. As you retrodevelopers know, computational limitations are a key factor for fostering creativity and encouraging new technical achievements and discoveries. Contest platform…
A lot of things happening! Scene World Magazine released today podcast episode #8 with famous hacker, blueboxer, and EasyWriter author John ‘Crunch’ Draper who came to Mannheim to visit his friends! :) http://sceneworld.org/blog/2015/06/21/podcast-episode-8-john-draper-aka-captain-crunch/ We also talk about our gig happening on Wednesday at 6 PM CEST which is an interview with famous game music composer Chris Huelsbeck happening in the…
Brilliant Maze is a maze game for the Commodore 64 developed by Geir Straume, with music by Odie. The version 1.1 is available now for free here on Vintage Is The New Old download area! The rules of the game are very simple: find your way through the maze to pick up diamonds while avoiding the enemies chasing you. After…
Pete Rittwage released a new version of NIBTOOLS. NIBTOOLS is a system to transfer data from original diskettes to a G64 or D64 disk image. These diskette images can be used with emulators or can be used to create new (real) diskettes. Changes in this version: Update for the SRQ code. SRQ nibbling is now the default. And a verify…
The guys over at C64.com have interviewed Mevlut Dinc. Mevlut is a game designer and has coded games on various systems such as the Commodore 64, Spectrum and Amstrad computers. The games he worked on are: Gerry the Germ, Prodigy, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Ninja 2, Time Machine, First Samurai and the development system for the C64GS….
PSID64 is a program that converts PSID files into C64 executables. PSID64 is written by Roland Hermans. This program allows users to play PSID files (originally used by the PlaySID program) on a real Commodore 64 computer or emulator such as VICE. In this version improvements for src/libpsid64/psid64.cpp and configure.ac. Download: CSDb
TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 14 new, 117 updated and 13 removed. Website: http://www.tosecdev.org
Station64 is a live player system (via midi). The features are: 3 Voice polyphony, Oscillator control via midi, Advanced glide and pitch wheel control, Works with 8580/6581 on PAL/NTSC (auto detection) machines, Configurable with any MIDI cartridge and much more. Download: CSDb
We reported a couple of weeks ago about Aaron White’s 9th Amiga Music disk release, titled C64 to Amiga Chiptunes Volume One. Today we have some fantastic news for you all! Aaron has sent us over his latest release, C64 to Amiga Chiptunes Volume Two! They say that the sequel is never as good as the original, but in this case,…
[youtube rushX-wtDig nolink] The Centre for Computer History in Cambridge – UK has announced that the next Retro Gaming Night is happening on June 26th, from 7pm to Midnight. Besides the obvious retro-gaming-jam, the event also allow you to bring that extra retro game or hardware to swap or sell during the event. The space is limited and you can…
