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
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…
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)…
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…
Wolfgang Back – WDR Computer Club co-moderator and pioneer died at 76 on December 5th, 2019. The last video interview he gave about his times with WDR Computer Club was for the Scene World Magazine in 2017 (Both, English and German versions can be found at https://sceneworld.org/search.html?search=Wolfgang+Back&id=188). The last interview about the show HobbyThek can be found (also conducted in…
Hewson Consultants! Who doesn’t know them! (Later renamed to #21stCenturyEntertainment), we talk to Andrew Hewson who started all this and talk about the good old times, as well, as talking about what Rob Hewson does nowadays as an Indie videogame developer and publisher with Huey Games, releasing #HyperSentinel on the Switch before and currently working on Kickstarting their new game…
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
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…
John Mack is the designer and graphic artist of the 1984 edutainment program “Operation:Frog” by Scholastic. It was the first of its kind in which you were tasked to either dissect or put together a frog. Learn all about this program and how it came to be.https://scene.world/johnmack
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