Month: September 2014

Csabo (programming) and Chronos (graphics) released the Commodore Plus/4 version of the adventure game Temple of Terror. The original game was released in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum. Csabo removed a programming error and made the game much faster than the original. Download: temple_of_terror.prgWebsite: http://plus4world.powweb.comSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Paolo Besser announces the Icaros Desktop 2.0. The official release will be in a few months but you can already see new screenshots on the Icaros web page. New in this version: TLSF memory manager, an improved SDK, better M68K support, DirectoryOpus 5 Magellan and much more. Website: http://www.icarosdesktop.org

Relaunch64 is a program (text editor) for programming 65xx assembly on a modern computer. This editor works together with common cross assembler like Kick Assembler, acme, dasm, c64asm or ca65. Changes in this version: Improved the en-/disabled-status of “dont wait for process” preference. And the “find by typing” function is now working correctly. Website: http://www.popelganda.de

The Dutch Commodore User Group had a meeting on August 16th. This Commodore user group is a very active group with six meetings every year with around a hundred or more visitors at each meeting. You can look at the photos and see how the meeting was. Website: http://commodore.hcc.nl

The last couple of months there have been updates for Kick Assembler. The recent changes are: Additional config files are now possible. Improvements for the “==” and “!=” operators with Boolean values. Improved import of binary and text files. Added addAll, uget, the “+=” and “-=” operators. Website: http://www.theweb.dk

Timo Voutilainen developed an RTC module for the Commodore 64. An RTC is a Real Time Clock and can be connected to a computer to supply the actual time and date. Timo also included a program to set and read the time and date from the Commodore 64 and he also included a driver for GEOS. Website: https://sites.google.com

Hi65 is a high-level Commodore 65, BASIC 10 emulator. The Commodore 65 is a prototype 8-bit computer with a 4510 CPU (3.54 MHz), 256 colour graphics and 8 MB of RAM. This emulator does not emulate the whole C65, but it will run programs that are written in BASIC. Changes in this version: Incorporated the Ingo Berg’s MuParser routines into…

Welcome to episode 95 of the UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast show. This week we have a jam packed episode for you. MrSid talks about the C64 scene, Steve buys a sexy spectrum, Paul M talks cover disks and finally, we have the podcast that we recorded live from Revival earlier this month. Once again, a huge thanks to Chris…