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Scene World Podcast #171 – Bitmap Bureau
It’s time for another episode of our podcast and this time we welcome Mike Tucker from Bitmap Bureau. Their shooter game Xeno Crisis is a hit on many retro consoles like the Mega Drive, Neo Geo or Dreamcast – at the moment it is even getting ported to SNES! Listen to some new insights.
The interview starts at minute 11:10 Enjoy!
video & audio versions: https://scene.world/xenocrisis
Sarah Christina (Kitty) opened a follow-up news site for the recently defuncted VITNO: https://www.commodoreblog.uk, which means a step back to its roots, as before VintageIsTheNewOld, it used to be just “CIA” (CommodoreIsAwesome) just ran by Sarah herself!
Game Boy Photographer & Modder Christopher Graves recently done their “dream camera” as they Xted:
Recently on X.com (the social media platform which got rid of its bird), they/them announced the creation of a new GB mini camera, they wrote:
I reduced the overall size of the cart PCB and integrated the sensor into an all-in-one board. This has been my dream camera cart for a while
including some photos for reference.
Even more photos can be found in the Mastodon toot of the same news
https://c64.tv/1818/
As VintageIsTheNewOld is shutting down, I’ve decided to resume the work on this newsportal here.
Got any news? Feel free to send them to me via contact[at]c64.tv, thanks! 🙂
The following unboxings and reviews have been uploaded to youtube now:
Evercade:
https://youtu.be/pilFJzHWIOM
SID Chip Club:
https://youtu.be/PExXpMWejDs
SNES Mini unboxing:
https://youtu.be/0zn2HKwhMTk
In the world of retro reproductions, the Commodore 128 is the red-headed stepchild, with the least attention from enthusiasts. That is, until now! Johan Grip joins AJ and Joerg to talk about the C128 Neo, a replica PCB designed to help preserve these vintage machines. (interview starts at 13:40)
https://scene.world/c128neo
In the world of retro reproductions, the Commodore 128 is the red-headed stepchild, with the least attention from enthusiasts. That is, until now! Johan Grip joins AJ and Joerg to talk about the C128 Neo, a replica PCB designed to help preserve these vintage machines. (interview starts at 13:40) htt...
takes a look at latest strategy game by industry veteran !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCNZBfydQTw
It combines a lot we veteran players know from the 90s and adds so much more to it! :) Enjoy!
takes a look at latest strategy game by industry veteran ! It combines a lot we veteran players know from the 90s and adds so much more to it! 🙂 Enjoy!
There has been a new version of the cross-platform C64 PETSCII image editor, released.
0.8.1 comes with the following changes:
Petmate 0.8.1 (2020-01-04)
Add support for setting up custom fonts when exporting a stand-alone assembly file.Add CA65 and c64jasm support for assembly export ( #166)Fix gif export bug with more than 64 frame gif anims ( #166)
Get it from:
https://nurpax.github.io/petmate/
Your C64 source
Quoting Scene World:
Kick-Off II is one of the most difficult football (or soccer, if you're NTSC) games to master. Oliver Stender and Frank Fuhrmann have done just that, though, and their skill has lead to them being two of the highest ranked players to take part in the Kick-Off II World Cup -- championships that are still being held today. AJ and Joerg talk to them about what draws them to this game, as well as the challenges of keeping a vintage game championship series relevant and entertaining in the 21st century. (Interview starts at 21:34)
https://scene.world/kickoff2
There is also a video version of this podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0RAid0giV0&feature=emb_title
Quoting Scene World: Kick-Off II is one of the most difficult football (or soccer, if you’re NTSC) games to master. Oliver Stender and Frank Fuhrmann have done just that, though, and their skill has lead to them being two of the highest ranked players to take part in the Kick-Off II World Cup — ...
Quoting Scene World:
Martin Ahman, AJ and Joerg look back at the games that were revived via retro IP successors. (Yes, PC retro is also retro nowadays!). Let's have a look together at what publishers and development studios showed us today!
Games we took a look at:
-Autonauts (3:07)-1985WorldCup (5:34) (thanks to Maennerquatsch Podcast!)-Comanche (17:21)-Beyond Blue (17:48)-Pro Evolution Soccer 2020 (20:43) (eFootball)-Highrisers (28:07) (update interview)-Deadly Days (29:36)-Encodya (31:54)-Contra Rogue Corps (35:20)-Wrath (52:09)-Desperados III (01:01:32)-Elder Scrolls Online – Elsweyr (01:07:14)-Intellivision Amico (01:12:15)-Necrobarista (01:16:05)-Memorrah (01:19:40)Intro promo by Valerio Cannone: https://kodai16.com
https://scene.world/gc2019podcast
There is also a video version available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6sOWnaAb4&feature=emb_title
Quoting Scene World: Martin Ahman, AJ and Joerg look back at the games that were revived via retro IP successors. (Yes, PC retro is also retro nowadays!). Let’s have a look together at what publishers and development studios showed us today! Games we took a look at: -Autonauts (3:07)-1985WorldCup ...
quoting the Guardian:
Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer known for his record covers for Pixies, Cocteau Twins and more, has died aged 62.Adrian Shaughnessy, a graphic designer who had worked with Oliver, announced the news on Instagram, saying Oliver had died with his partner Lee by his side. No cause of death has been given.
quoting the Guardian: Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer known for his record covers for Pixies, Cocteau Twins and more, has died aged 62. Adrian Shaughnessy, a graphic designer who had worked with Oliver, announced the news on Instagram, saying Oliver had died with his partner Lee by his side. No...
Next to the trainers, it allows also war without crashes, hence the 101% release, cheers!It can be downloaded at CSDb: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=185485
Next to the trainers, it allows also war without crashes, hence the 101% release, cheers! It can be downloaded at CSDb: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=185485
The diskmag issue #9 of their RapidNews has been released shortly before Christmas (AKA The Christmas Edition ) download it at CSDB: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=185290
The diskmag issue #9 of their RapidNews has been released shortly before Christmas (AKA The Christmas Edition ) download it at CSDB: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=185290
XentaX, announced in their blog, that they will release FAM-YAM batch no3 available in Q1 2020 to be purchased over protovision once finished!
They wrote:
Here's a bonus Christmas Present for the C64 game developers out there. Tape Master Pro V4.0. This is probably one of the best tape mastering tools around. Edit your own loader text and colours, load in and position your loading sprites. Select the border flash scheme, set up your filenames and master your games with a BASIC start with a high speed tape turbo with optional open borders, and with loading picture and music. Max file size of your game to master 193 blocks ($0801-$C7FF). Some examples included:
Rocket 'N Roll
Starfysh
Blastopia DX
Get it from http://tnd64.unikat.sk/download_utils.html
They wrote: Here’s a bonus Christmas Present for the C64 game developers out there. Tape Master Pro V4.0. This is probably one of the best tape mastering tools around. Edit your own loader text and colours, load in and position your loading sprites. Select the border flash scheme, set up your file...
Swiss game designer Pioneer Roman Werner released revised edition of his 2019 Black Jack Basic Game for Christmas downloadable for free (corrected revision) athttp://kingroman.com/c64/Blackjack2019.pdf
Inventor of the first low-cost CPU Chuck Peddle and computer engineer at Commodore and MOS was last video interviewed for the Scene World Magazine in 2014: https://sceneworld.org/blog/2014/06/29/video-interview-with-chuck-peddle/
Jason Scott of the Internet Archive also pointed out on Twitter that he did an interview that was unreleased for the unfinished MOS 6502 CPU documentary
(Check the 4th file of the batch for the actual interview).
Furthermore, he received an 59th Alumni award from the industry for his achievements! Well deserved chuck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwmZNPNsWLA
Inventor of the first low-cost CPU Chuck Peddle and computer engineer at Commodore and MOS was last video interviewed for the Scene World Magazine in 2014: https://sceneworld.org/blog/2014/06/29/video-interview-with-chuck-peddle/ Jason Scott of the Internet Archive also pointed out on Twitter that h...
They wrote:
our very own Andrew Fisher had a look and unboxed / previewed the Project Sidologie boxset from C64Audio.com and ! Enjoy the ride!
https://youtu.be/ChVbl4QfnTw
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has created an and video of the game published by enjoy! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKbfBn0TFTI&feature=youtu.be
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Chris Abbott and Rob Hubbard are at it again! This time, they're working on the 8-Bit Symphony, a live concert featuring the Hull Philharmonic, celebrating the history of home computer gaming. They join AJ and Joerg for this special 64th episode to discuss bringing together this amazing project. (Interview starts at 22:27)
https://scene.world/8bitsymphony
https://scene.
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Retro Fusion Books announced recently, that there is their US Gold History book available for free for a limited time
Get it in their store while you still can:
https://fusionretrobooks.com/collections/pdf/products/pdf-the-story-of-us-gold?utm_source=List+1&utm_campaign=bef6b6dd17-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_14_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b556bb9253-bef6b6dd17-46462605&mc_cid=bef6b6dd17&mc_eid=c17e82dbd9
https://fusionretrobooks.us13.list-manage.
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Paco Portalo is a computer games pioneer from Spain when he and his friends create the computer game "Bugaboo (The Flea)" in 1983 under "Indescomp". Originally done for the ZX Spectrum as this one was just released in UK. The game was published by Quicksilver and caused a kickstart of the "Golden Era of Spanish Software" in which Spain became the second largest 8 bit computer entertainment software producer in Europe (just behind UK). The game was also the first game to ever use animated non-interactive scenes (later coined as "cutscenes" by game designer Ron Gilbert in 1987 when this technique gained wide audience awareness due to his point & click adventure "Maniac Mansion") In this interview, Paco Portalo also talks about the beginning of computing in Spain, correcting Spanish computer game history in 2009 by writing the book Bugaboo, un hito en la Historia del software español by Francisco Portalo Calero.
ZeroPaige this is the retro scene nickname of the guy who spent 7 years of his life, to get the source code of the NES game Super Mario Bros to run on any NTSC/PAL C64!
The original post on the LEMON64 Forums includes download URLs for the CRT and D64 image to download.
Since 1 of the download links is already shut down and another one under review, several scene people offer mirror hosts for the game:
https://tinyurl.com/y4s63eqw
https://anonfile.com/S5I9J1f1n2/Super_Mario_Bros_64_-_Zeropaige_zip
There is also a cart label and box available:
https://postimg.cc/3ym1652x
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Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott host the amazingly popular Retro Hour Podcast, as well as having awesome YouTube channels of their own. AJ and Joerg talk to them about how they do it, keeping retro fresh, and we trade some fun podcasting stories. (Interview starts at 24:50)
https://scene.world/retrohour
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Baracuda yet again supplied C64 demoscene news for us, thanks :)
- Raf left excess
- Softpres.org with an update. Wanted c64 games list upd.
- Twilight joined german excess as coder
Thanks for this :)
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C64.TV has been relaunched, thanks for the help of our contributor Juergen who also is with his family at Gamescom with our booth stuff, and the final small adjustments have been done on the server site by our great hoster scene.
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Scene World Magazine wrote: Video interview with John RomeroJohn Romero is one of the most famous computer game designers, most known for his 3D Ego shooters like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, and the jump'n'run series "Commander Keen"In this interview he talks about his history in the video game industry, how he happen to design the games he did, working together with other industry legends like Bobby Prince and Scott Miller, why he decided to make a successor of the bankrupt Muse's "Wolfenstein" games, talking about his upcoming game Sigil and a lot more! Video and audio version can be found at
https://www.c64.tv/1520/john-romero-interview-for-scene-world-magazine
Podcast Episode #58 - Richie Knucklez AJ Heller and Joerg Droege talk to Richie Knucklez who is very famous for his Donkey Kong-Off Arcade Competition events, his skills in repairing Arcades to make them look again like new from factory, and his strong bounds with good old Twin Galaxies, when Walter Day still ran it. We cover everything about arcades in this interview, Twin Galaxies, high score scandals, changes in the scene, his experience with Walter and the rest of the core founder gang of Twin Galaxies! The interview starts 30 minutes into the podcast:
https://www.c64.tv/1517/richie-knucklez
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