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
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! from the manual: ” DESCRIPTION This is a Commodore 64 port of the 1985 game SUPER MARIO BROS. for the Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System.…
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
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 🙂
Baracuda sent in the following news today: V12 of Tropyx will reduce his scene activity to minimum, because he must focus on a job. All the best to you and your job situation, Pawel!
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.org! 🙂 Since some changes beyond our control in last December, that had rendered the website partly broken, which we…
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…
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…
