The Pop-Culture E-Zine
Back on April 25, we reported on the discovery and recovery of Andy Warhol’s digital artistic works from 30 year old Amiga diskettes. The Trapped: Andy Warhol’s Amiga Experiments documentary was shown this past weekend (May 10) at the Carnegie Lecture Hall in Pittsburgh. If you happen to have missed the première, don’t worry, we have it right here for you. Press play and enjoy.
source: nowseethis
Attention Retro Gamers! Get your diaries out and mark June 1 2014 as “I am busy”.
The Amazing Mill Markets in Geelong will be holding the first ever Australian Retro Video Gaming Championships! First prize is a whopping $500 voucher to spend on retro gaming goodies – it doesn’t get any better than that! Entry is free, so you have no excuse! If tangling in gaming championships isn’t your thing, don’t worry, the exhibition should keep you occupied.
So what will you be doing on Sunday, June 1 2014? Hope to see you at the Amazing Mill Markets!
source: The Amazing Mill Markets
Get excited gamers! Tickets to EB Games Expo 2014 go on sale tomorrow (April 24, 10AM AEST)!
Australia’s biggest video gaming event caters for all gamers, from the modern to retro! I can’t wait to check out the Retro Central Park Freeplay City area which will be run by our very good friends, Weird and Retro.
If you are in Sydney and are free between October 3 – 5, then you should get yourself down to the Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park precinct for one heck of a weekend! If you are from interstate or overseas, then I hope this event tempts you to come to Sydney! Hope to see you there!
All images sourced from and remain the property of: EB Games Expo 2014
In case you have been living off the grid for the past month, the Commodore 64: A Visual Commpendium Kickstarter campaign has been funded. Are we rapt? Of course we are! A huge congratulations to Sam Dyer and Bitmap Books for hitting their target.
With a week to go, you would think Sam would take it easy and take some well earned rest. But that is not how Sam rolls. After a fantastic response to the campaign, it doesn’t end there. Sam has been busy behind the scenes coming up with some great stretch goals, pulling together some new pledges and getting some new contributors on-board. Let the drooling begin!
New pledges
These include: signed Psytronik Software goodies, a personalised avatar by legendary C64 artist S.I.T, signed Oliver Frey goodies and a ‘one off’ framed Last Ninja print signed by original artist, Steinar Lund. There will be two more very special pledges coming this week – keep an eye out on the Kickstarter page!
New book contributors
Great news on the contributor front as some true legends of the industry have agreed to be involved in the book. The new contributors include:
Stretch goals
As the campaign goes further over it’s total, the extra money will be used to add extras to the print specification of the book. This will include adding a dustcover, spot varnish to the cover, extra pages to the pagination and finally, an enhanced PDF. All backers will benefit from hitting these goals.
If you have pledged already, these new rewards are quite enticing. If you have not yet pledged, then surely it is time to dig deep and support this wonderful Kickstarter campaign.
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About Sam
Sam has over 10 years experience as an award winning professional Graphic Designer, working for agencies in London and also in the South West of England. His passion for design and also the Commodore 64, mean that he is ideally placed to create this book to the highest possible standard.
Follow Sam (aka: MrSidc64) on Twitter
About Bitmap Books
A new publisher specialising in beautifully designed and produced books all about video games. Commodore 64: a visual commpendium is the first book by Bitmap Books.
With the Easter break fast approaching, don’t just gorge yourself on those lovely chocolate Easter bunnies, play some video games.
To get you started playing games, we have five Groupees Retro 3 Bundles to give-away. To enter, email us here and tell us what your favourite video gaming platform is. It is that easy! Hurry up, you only have till midday on Good Friday (GMT +10) to enter! The five lucky winners will be selected at random and will be notified via email.
Good luck!
What are your plans for April 26? You want to be part of a historic event? Do you love Atari folklore? Then make your travel arrangements to the Alamogordo Landfill in New Mexico (USA) and watch the Fuel Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment Studios production team excavate the landfill to search for some Atari treasure. What will they dig up – will it just be E.T cartridges or just a mangled mess of plastic junk? I do wonder. Perhaps we should let sleeping dogs lie. Better still, read the Atari Inc. – Business Is Fun book instead, it will save you from travelling to New Mexico.
What do you think about this landfill excavation event?
Alamogordo Landfill Excavation Details:
Saturday, April 26, 2014
9:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Alamogordo Landfill
4276 Highway 54 S
Alamogordo, NM 88310
image source: GotGame
OMG! This teaser video of Viva Amiga: The Documentary Film about the beautiful machine, has not only whet our appetite, but it has totally made us all drool in anticipation. Some true heavyweights feature in this video, one being RJ Mical – (one of) the inventing geniuses behind Commodore’s flagship model.
The Kickstarter campaign was funded back in July 2011, so this teaser video serves as a reminder of what is to come. For those that funded the project, you lucky, lucky b*$7%^&$! For those of us that didn’t, let’s hope pre-ordering opens very soon!
source: Viva Amiga
The “Australian Made” campaign has been going strong for decades. There is nothing like the sense of pride you have when consuming something that has been made in your own country. That is exactly how I feel about the new Commodore 64 publication, RESET.
Reset Magazine is an Australian made (with a sprinkle of international flavouring), free, non-profit publication, designed to give the modern Commodore 64 user a light-hearted insight into the current world of the Commodore 64. We spoke to the editor, Kevin Tilley, to find out a little bit more about the team behind this awesome magazine. So here they are:
Kevin Tilley (Unkle K – Australia) – Editor, Staff Writer and Design
Kevin has been a Commodore fanatic since the ‘80s. Retro gaming is something that Kevin does to relax and unwind. The aim of Reset was (still is) to put together a magazine that is full of contributions from people who love the C64 and to let readers know that the little 8-bit is still very much alive and thriving. Kevin has been involved in a number of C64 related projects over the years, culminating with this latest venture, the Reset magazine – a magazine that he enjoys producing and reading.
Vinny Mainolfi (UK) – Co-Editor and Staff Writer
Vinny runs the c64endings site and is an active game hacker – releasing his ‘crazy hacks’ under the Hackersoft label through the Hackersoft website. Vinny’s job at Reset is to give Kevin good advice, review games, proof read, additional design and contribute his C64 endings column in conjunction with his c64endings website.
Nick Dibble (Plume – UK) – Staff Writer
Plume loves gaming and retrogaming. He is genuinely a really funny guy who injects humour into the magazine with his dry British wit! He contributes game reviews, The Day The Universe Died column, proof reading and apparently has a very close relationship with The Mighty Brain. He also runs his own blog, funnily enough called The Day The Universe Died.
Paul Morrison (PaulEMoz – UK) – Staff Writer
Paul is an expert on C64 games and the history of the programmers behind them – he has a passion for the untold stories of the development teams behind the games. He contributes game reviews and developer features such as interviews, as well as proof reading. He is currently writing a book called They Were Our Gods which is the story of the games and the people behind them. Paul runs his own blog at They Were Our Gods.
Shane Wood (Zap – Australia) – Webmaster
Shane quietly plugs away at the Reset website which he coded entirely from scratch, the old school way. He has a million ideas which he will slowly implement. Shane runs Commodore 8-bit and also contributes to several other projects. He also organises the annual Brisbane Commodore Night!
Kevin went on to tell us that, “each submission by staff and contributors isn’t necessarily following a particular formula or request by me, but in fact the author writing about their particular specialty and passion about the computer we all love. Hopefully that passion and love for the scene comes out in the writing, because it is completely genuine. Most of the writers/contributors come up with their own ideas and go for it, so they are genuinely writing about their area of expertise and what they love about the C64”. That sounds pretty good to us!
If you are a regular on Commodore related forums, you will recognise the above Reset folks – very knowledgeable people indeed. Even our good friends, Anthony Stiller and Cameron Davis contribute regularly on the magazine. You never know, even yours truly might submit a few Commodore loving articles for future Reset issues – stay tuned!
If you are a Commodore fan, user, dabbler or whatever category you fit into, RESET is for you. It will no doubt provide you with enjoyable content, no matter which corner of the globe you reside in. Head on over to the RESET site and download the first two issues now!
image source: Reset Magazine
Commodore 64: a visual commpendium is a book that celebrates the beauty of the greatest home computer ever made.
A campaign to create this book will launch as a Kickstarter on April 1, 2014. This is a call to action and is no April Fools’ Day joke! Mark this date in your diary and support this great campaign.
Created by lifelong Commodore 64 fan and Graphic Designer Sam Dyer, the final book will feature 200+ pages of lovingly designed and beautifully printed artwork. Unlike other Commodore 64 books, it will celebrate the visual side of the computer in a way that has never been seen before.
It will be packed full of artwork by Oliver Frey, game art, reviews, loading screens, game maps and photography. The foreword will be written by legendary Sensible Software Graphic Artist Stoo Cambridge.
source: MrSid64
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About Sam
Sam has over 10 years experience as an award winning professional Graphic Designer, working for agencies in London and also in the South West of England. His passion for design and also the Commodore 64, mean that he is ideally placed to create this book to the highest possible standard.
Follow Sam (aka: MrSidc64) on Twitter
About Bitmap Books
A new publisher specialising in beautifully designed and produced books all about video games. Commodore 64: a visual commpendium is the first book by Bitmap Books.
If you are a pinball fan, then this one is for you!
Best Things on Earth (BTOE) are on a mission to discover what the best pinball game on Earth is – will it be Twilight Zone or The Addams Family?
To have your say and directly influence the result, go and vote here for your favourite pinball game of all time. I’ve cast my vote!
source: Back Alley Creations