The Warriors of the Wasteland are searching for coders ... We have highly motivated graphicians and musicians! Apply on our website at: http://wow.c64.org ! Keep this scene alive!

xIII/WOW

All tunes now present, including the ones from Xentax members missing from the compo disk.
Get It Here!

waz/padua

Euro Beats 2. The story continues, and not only concerning the name! Again there are five tunes and with a bit of effort they all can find their sibling in the first collection. Don't worry - it's no recyclation, just the atmosphere of the collection is pretty much the same - and those who tried the first one (or at least read the review) know that it's a plus.

Discussion: 0 reactions   |  Written by Ugha Sid

We in Padua would like to introduce a new mailinglist to you, the SceneBiz list.

This list is meant for networking of sceners and ex-sceners about business related issues. It is open to anyone working in the IT/Multimedia/Internet/Games field. You can subscribe by sending an empty email to biz-subscribe@scenelists.com.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at lists@scenesight.org.

anonym/padua

DreamLoad has gone to Version 2.2. Updates include higher reliability so updating is recommended (Yeah, we optimized a little too much as well ;)). No complaints about this version so far...

The huge online-help "All_About_Your_64" was also updated again and finally a plain ASCII-version is introduced.

Hope it's useful to some ppl out there. Get it from The Dreams Homepage!

Ninja/The Dreams

Who needs a videocamera? Check out these pictures. It might be a good idea to contact CBA and have all the X2001 pictures located at this server. (Oxbow)

...since the c64.sk staff is sleeping... ;-) ...more pictures of the we-are-family X2001 party on the Digital Excess homepage (and of quite a few more parties aswell). (se7en)

Now that the X2001 Party is over you can have a look back with the pictures that I have put online. You can find them here. Enjoy. (FRaNKy)

Okay I've returned home, few hours ago and still I don't feel like writing reports, so I'm at least sharing this link with you: http://dosgames.nl/X/ . X-2001 photos by Sinister. (CreaMD)

And here comes another by WiDDY/Genesis*Project: http://www.widdy.de/x01tn1.html (CreaMD)

Last but certainly not least, the gallery of photos by Xenon dudes: http://xenon.c64.org/ - direct link here. (CreaMD)

Oxbow/Xenon, se7en /Digital Excess, FRaNKy/Role, CreaMD/Dmagic

There was some talk a long time ago that someone might be able to NTSC-fix these games, but so far I've heard no further development on that. I forgot the whole thing too but then I suddenly got an idea how to do it myself (deceptively simple; just dividing colorscreen-scrolling into two parts), so
Metal Warrior II NTSC-fixed
and
Metal Warrior III NTSC-fixed
have been released. In MW3 there's still the minor inconvenience of stars & character-bullets flickering at the top of screen but that's unavoidable I think.

Lasse ??rni

After a long time, the Padua Website is back online with a completly new design by Cupid/Padua and enhanced interactivity by Unlock/Padua. Get the latest Padua news and releases [the old releases will be added sooner or later too] and don't forget to sign our guestbook, we love hear from our old friends. You can find the site at www.padua.org - where else?

Unlock/Padua

The progress has to continue. If we want to make sure all our history is being kept we need your help. We need cracks, demos, mags transferred. For cracks we need to have more versions than a single one. Can you help send mail to Mason.

Mason

Coming soon
X-2001 report !
Get the releases at: ftp.scs-trc.net

X-2001 - THE RESULTS

Demos:
1) "Soiled Legacy 85%" by Resource
2) "Insomnia" by 64ever (unreleased)
3) "Drop The Basics" by Fairlight & Damage

Graphics:
1) "Olatunji" by Electric/Extend
2) "The Little Prince's Last Dream" by JailBird/Tempest/Padua/Onslaught
3) "Gloom Warrior 2" by Katon/Lepsi De

Musics:
1) "Electronic Transfer" by GRG/Shape/Protovision
2) "National Park Grave Danger" by Agemixer/Scallop & CreaMD/Dmagic (coop-tune)
3) "Varsity" by VIP/Role/WOW/Padua/64ever/CZP

Intro Remakes:
1) "Trilight" by Padua
2) "Starion Intro" by Booze Design

Wild Compo:
1) "Dual Head" by Raiders

IK Plus Gold - Game Compo:
1) Ninja/The Dreams
2) SAV/Xentax
3) Groepaz/Hitmen, 8-bit Servant/Church 64 and MacGyver/DMAgic/Protovision


Links updated by MacGyver on 7th January 2007, 14:28 CET

Discussion: 81 reactions   |  Written by CreamD & MacGyver

Yes it's true, already you can get all the warez from X2001 from www.xenon.c64.org! Have some coffee while dl-ing all 1.63 MB's of it! You can find the releases in the warez section. Direct link to releases: Here! (.ed)

WVL/XeNoN

Royal Arte - first seen on Mekka-Symposium 2001 and taking the C64 demo competition by storm. Then, released a while later with a "slightly" unreliable loader and not giving a chance to fully admire it's great power. Now we are proud to finally bring you the final FINAL VERSION, presented & released at X-2001. Moreover, we bring you a review by The Dark Judge / Focus.

Discussion: 5 reactions   |  Written by The Dark Judge

You didn't have enough partying at X? Or you did not attend the X party for some reason? No matter - PROTOVISION invites you to the VISION 2001, a Protovision conference meeting opened to the public. This means: Party, fun, discussion with developers, presentations, and more! Visit the Vision homepage by VISION organizer Courage. Date is 11/31/01 - 12/02/01.

Thunderblade/PROTOVISION

The choice of the truly independent man. Added slide command, note trig rewritten from scratch, optimized one more rasterline (now peaks at 7 starting lines). Download

Aleksi Eeben

Serial Slave is a system that lets you use a PC or a workstation as a virtual HD on your C64. It'll also allow you to load URLs and mount D64s over TCP/IP.

Check it out at http://come.to/life

MagerValp

From 15-16. December 2001. The party of the diskmag Mail Madness. We have demos, music and fun ;) The location is in Hohenstein Ernsthal / Sachsen / Germany. The price for the 2 days will be just only 10 DM. Ok, if you want to come please send a mail to x-data@gmx.de!

lordnikon

... and it's good. Download and print it (600 dpi) from here!

electric

Go to the Creators Website to download the latest onefile demo from CTR.

Mermaid/Creators/Crest

Released at: http://www.student.oulu.fi/~loorni/software/goattrk.zip Goattracker reached the version 1.11, and brings a huge ammount of changes. To mention a few:

- "Game-playroutine" with sound effect support,
- "Scene-playroutines" with author info and with timing marks,
- DMC note-entry mode as an option,
- Configurable playroutine zeropage address,
- Comes with documentation for, instrument & sound effect data,
- formats and examples of usage of the playroutines,
- A standardised editing features as CTRL+X,C,V for copy & paste,
- SHIFT+cursor keys for selections
- and a *lots* of other enhancements & improvements.

Testing & feedback is welcome! E-mail: Lasse ??rni

CreamD

The CIA-IDE is yet another approach to connect an IDE hard drive to C64/128. It simply requires only 2 chips (or just one in case of C128), the documentation and software is for free (available in source code form under GNU GPL), comes with a ready to use GEOS 2.0 driver. Documentation, source codes and binaries made out of them are available here! "A word of explanation: This project was not meant to compete with IDE64 or any other similar project. I did it for fun and I want to share my work so other could benefit from it too." Maciej Witkowiak of Elysium - the author of the project

CreamD

Bop & rumble to one of the coolest demos I have ever produced. 'Euro Beats #2' consist of another 5 tunes, and another cool intro screen. There is a very nice user-interface and the tunes are lengthy. You can download Euro Beats #2 from here or visit The New Dimension Web Site. It is yet another Civitas production. Got any feedback about the demo, email me.

Richard/TND/Civitas/Protovision

Like in the past years, Out of Order's C64-only-Party takes place in South-Germany on 28.-30.12.2001 - the right thing to celebrate the end of the year. All Commodore enthusiasts and everybody who's interested are invited to attend the sixth edition of this scene party and end the year with the breadbox. Again, the party will be held in the sacred halls of Hoppst?dten-Weiersbach (near Birkenfeld, between Kaiserslautern and Trier).

The most important features:
- Out of Orderia is a Commodore-only party (read: PCs and other systems are okay as long as they're not the only computer you bring)
- the party place has separate sleeping space, a kitchen, restrooms for ladies & gents and a shower. Plus, there's a meadow behind the house that we can use as a playground!
- Demo, graphics, music and gaming competitions, and more!
- Auctions (sell any hard- or software)
- and many other surprises
- begins on friday, Dec 28; ends on sunday, Dec 30 at noon
- entrance fee is 20 DM / 10 Euro
- location: parsonage of the catholic community of Hoppst?dten-Weiersbach
- shuttle service from the station to the party place
- parking lot in front of the house

Reservation isn't mandatory, but strongly recommended due to place restrictions! Don't forget to bring your own cables, PSUs and so on!
You don't know anything about Out or Order parties?
Visit this site: http://www.murphys-world.de

Download a map guiding you to the partyplace here!

And for further information contact:
Volker Rust
Tel: 0049 6831 5582
Email: info@maerchenbraut.de

Volker Rust

Get Firstro at http://hoth.i8.com

Hoth

Balloonacy has now been fixed and thoroughly tested for any more bugs. I've spent hours testing the game, and I had to re-write routines. I have played the game myself and I would assume that it could be difficult to play, but quite addictive. I've added some lasers to Part 1 of the game, as it was too easy to play with the fixed movements of the enemies.

You can download the game from here or visit The New Dimension Web Site.

Richard Bayliss

We're having a multi-platform demoparty on 24-25 November in Italy, you can submit also via e-mail, read more at www.spoletium.org . C64 Rulez!

Lanch^Trinity

"‘Session’ is a strange puzzle game, written by More Gore Software. The game consist of loads of levels, a level editor and also a good choice of music." Says Richard Bayliss in the beginning of his review. How good the game is, what he thinks about the playability, graphics, sounds? Do you want to learn more about this game? Read on.

Discussion: 0 reactions   |  Written by Richard Bayliss

Probably the most succesfull crossplattform coding compo ever - Minigame compo, organised by Matthew Westcott (Gasman/Raww Arse) is finally resolved. Look at the results at: http://demo.raww.net/minigame/ and have a beautiefoolish day.

CreamD

In case people here aren't already aware, I feel that I should mention that we are organising a very exciting party called "The Alternative Party". Basically it's a party that is trying to return to the original oldskool basics: meeting people, competing and having fun without necessarily bumping into Quake and CS.

We support all alternative platforms. C64s, Ataris, SGIs, Amigas, Vectrexes, old PCs etc. etc. We are also combining that with a list of experimental artists playing live on stage during the 3-day event. F.ex. Tero (who plays synths and a C64 live).

It takes place in Helsinki, Finland. For more information contact setok@fishpool.com, or visit our website: www.altparty.org

Setok / Aggression

I don't want to over-hype or anything but I just wanted to tell that now my next C64 project has taken definite shape: it will be a conversion from my PC overhead shooter game "BOFH:Servers Under Siege" As you can see there's already the quite cool feature of not seeing behind walls. Estimated development time is definitely less than half year, I thought it would be nice to do something smaller for a change. :-)

Lasse ??rni

Double Dragon Crt 100% with the original music, sfx and the complete docs from the cartridge is available now at www.nostalgia.c64.org.

6R6/Nostalgia

Hi to all who sent a mail to JTR (Jakob Voos) of Protovision and still wait for a reply. Due to technical problems some mail got lost on the mail server. So please: Who has sent a mail to JTR and still waits for a reply, please send again - to: jaktrip@gmx.de ! Thanks.

Jak-T-Rip

I have written V1.1 of Balloonacy, as there was a major bug in part 1, which was related to sprite collision detection. Therefore the played died in thin air. This bug is now fixed, so now you are able to play the game without this sort of problem. Apologie for the problems. You can download the game here or you can visit The New Dimension website Apologies for the bugs left in the previous game :( Rich!

Richard/TND/Civitas/Protovision

This I got in my e-mailbox today: Hi there, I attached a puzzle game for the C64: The Session V1.4. Release date is *now*. There are some old cracked versions of this game around, which only have 18 levels. What you find in the attachment is a new original version that comes with 35 levels and an editor. I am not particularly proud of the technical quality of this one, but maybe you like it anyway. Feel free to spread it if you want. Additionally, you will find yet another update of Space Battle Deluxe (V2.2) in the second attachment. Some more minor bugs have been fixed, and the game should be at 99.9% now. I don't have any plans to create more C64 games, but maybe there will be an extra level disk for The Session if I receive enough feedback. Cheers, Jan. I've glimpsed on the game and eventhough (as Jan says) it's technically mediocre, it has a style and atmosphere. Thanx for nice sending, Jan.

CreamD

Released on 2nd OCTOBER 2001, GOAT TRACKER came from version 0.9 to current v1.2. To give it's developer feedback and support this interesting piece of software C64.SK organised a competiton lasting since the 8th to 22th october 2001. 11 tunes were submitted, 9 competed, 41 votes collected. And here comes the results:
GOAT RESULTS .D64? ZIPPED .SID & .SNG PACK

Discussion: 23 reactions   |  Written by CreamD

Whatta? Anubis have released a graphic collie by Exile (Holland). Note that SAD, Lord Hypnos and Factor6 left this Czech-Dutch group a few weeks ago (first two joined Padua later on). Exile's favourite graphic mode is multicolor and his shading techniques are quite simplistic, but still I'm sure you will love this collie which brings cute graphic in combination with SAD's (surprisingly) happy music & Lord Hypnos's decent code.

CreamD

14-16'th of December it's time for Mastersystem. It's a retro party, most designed for the C64. It's located in Oskarshamn/Smaaland/Sweden. Read more at: http://mastersystem.amiga.tm.

kind regards, Johan Svensson (Johey of D4rkn3ss)

C64see is a plugin for the Windows based picture viewer and browser ACDSee (for version 3.0 and above). It enables your ACDSee to browser trough C64 pictures like you can browse trough your normal PC format pictures. C64see bases on the sources of the older VicShow. Kmeg/Albion/Shape did a nice job with those programs. On his website http://thegallery.c64scene.org you can also find tools for ripping c64 graphics and of the course the VicShow program aswell as the C64see plugin. Additionally, there is a betaversion of the HVGC (High Voltage Graphic Collection, a collection similar to the HVSC containing C64 graphics) available.

Unlock/Padua/Albion

Well, it's taken me long enough but the Cosine site has finally been dragged into the 21st century! So now you can all see the shiny, new site at www.cosine.org.uk and get 4-Mat's Dentro and read lots of stuff!

Are we good to you lot or what? =-)

T.M.R/Cosine

Just to remind you there's one week left to send in your votes for the Minigame competition (you know, the contest to find the best 8-bit game written in 512 bytes or 2K of code), to decide upon a winner. A lot of sterling work has gone into the entries from all sides, so it's well worth checking out - and clear instructions for running the emulators are included, in the download pack and on the http://demo.raww.net/minigame/ The deadline for voting forms is Friday 9th November...go on, take part. You'll like it, oh yes you will. (Rewritten from comp.sys.cbm, GoatCompo results comming asap, CreaMD)

Matthew Westcott

At long last, the full game is finally released. This is one of the best C64 games, which Richard Bayliss has ever created.

The game features 16 levels of madness (8 levels split into 2 parts), Plenty of C64 music, playability and also puzzles - sort of.

Fly your balloon to the switch and flick it, then run to the exit, before time runs out.

You can download the game at The New Dimension C64 web site - downloads section.

Planned before Christmas 2001, is a new demo, which will be started. Euro Beats #2 is going to be yet another Civitas production with another selection of C64 tunes for you to bop and rumble to. The user-interface will look a lot more better and the overall result should be good.

Richard/TND/Civitas/Protovision

Well, another nice month. This time 34 Alpha-News full of interesting news about The Scene activity. You all participated on another huge release list full of interesting demos, games, tools, and other yummy things. What was the most interesting news of the month? Probably the return of Cadaver (Lasse ??rni) to activity, and controversial The Dark Court which provoked more reactions than anyone of us expected.

Discussion: 2 reactions   |  Written by Wotnau & CreaMD

Thorgal stopped swapping on c64! NOVEMBER 25 2001
Classic video games inspired MP3 & Video HERE! 14. NOV 2001 18:01
CBMGallery-of your own Commodore machine(s). 11. NOV 2001 23:16

Discussion: 10 reactions   |  Written by