Tag: Demoscene
Not content at merely bringing you the very best news from the retro gaming and computing scene, we’ve also been adding plenty of new content to our YouTube channel as well! We’ve been busy uploading videos that showcase some of the best and brightest creations from the demoscene in high quality for your enjoyment, and we simply couldn’t pass up the…
The demo group DESiRE scored a major victory for the TI 99/4A over the weekend at the crazy mobile demoparty Synchrony. TI’s little 16-bit machine has seen almost zero representation in the demoscene, possibly owing to its lack of popularity outside the US. Its weird 16/8-bit CPU, and 256 bytes of main memory don’t win it any points, either. But…
Blake Patterson has published on his blog “The Byte Cellar” an interview he made with the members of a group responsible for the first demo for the Apple Lisa. The interview happened via IRC channel back in 2011, and he now decided to take it from his archive and make it public. Even being four years old, it is fascinating…
The biggest french Amstrad CPC party, the ReSeT #28, will take place in Coutances – France from 24th-26th June 2016. It is open to all computer enthusiast and for everyone who is intersted in coding, electronics, graphics, music, etc.. Competitions: Demo: No size limit. The entry must be runnable on CPC 6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension. Intro (256b,…
Usually, CSDb has way too many amazing graphic works being published every week, so I rather not post them here all the time. Our visitor friends can always browse the CSDb database to see them and be amazed by the level of the artists from C64 Demoscene. Today I am making an exception, though. As a big fan of the ‘Monkey Island’ franchise,…
The Return of Heracles is an adventure game for the Commodore 64 (and other machines) written by Stuart Smith and published by Quality Software in 1983, where you can play as many heroes from Greek myth. Thirty-three years have passed and he Fairlight demoscene group has released a cracked version with a trainer and custom loader. You can download the game…
The Last Breakout was made back in the 80ies for the norwegian small company Data-Tronic by norwegian Fredrik Gløckner, and was actually not the last Breakout ever made, despite its name; it is not even one of the better ones, but Genesis Project will nevertheless keep on preserving nice finds for you all to check out. This one was dug…
Definitively this weekend has been very generous on new Commodore 64 releases. Yesterday we had ‘Megatron’ and today we have the new game ‘MAH’, developed by the CSDb user ‘saimo’. The game objective is to save the World, and to do so, you have to hack through several firewalls (called bitwalls) using the Peekpoker, a very powerful hacking tool. The…
With tears of joy, we present the new ‘Commodore is Awesome’ & ‘Hokuto Force’ coop intro, released today on CSDb. Credits: Code: Buddha of Commodore Is Awesome Music: Buddha of Commodore Is Awesome Graphics: Shine of Accept, CODE7, Delysid, Excess, Flood, Scene World Magazine, Score Charset: Crayon of Citadel, Commodore Is Awesome, Flood, Hokuto Force Test: Kitty of Commodore Is…
Our next guest for An Evening At The Museum in The Frankfurt Film Musem as part of the “Film & Games” exhibition will be long-time demoscener and party co-organizer responsible for the retro compos: Peter Smets AKA FraNKy. We will be talking about the demoscene, what it is about, the challenges of organizing a demoscene party and the compos and…
