Author: Paulo Garcia
WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added until 08-19-2014. 2014-08-19 new: Apocalypse (Gods) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-08-18 new: Music Disk 1 (Mahoney & Kaktus) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-08-18 new: 5 Yards (Vision) done by StingRay (Info,Image) 2014-08-17 improved: Copper Master (Angels) Binary can be compressed again,…
Reset #04 is out now. Featuring reviews of Commando Arcade, Guns ‘N’ Ghosts, Bellringer III and the Protovision 4 Player Compilation. Frank Gasking presents his Where Are They Now feature trying to track down some Commodore 64 personalities who were well known after its commercial era. We also have an exclusive interview with Tomcat/Nostalgia about the making of Commando Arcade….
CBM prg Studio v3.1.0 has been released. There’s something for everyone in this version, including: * BASIC Code Snippets. * Improved VICE debugger support. * Support for the Plus/4 in the screen code builder tool. * BASIC 8 support for C128 projects. * Improved multicolour screen designer support for VIC20 projects. And of course not forgetting a ton of general bug-fixes. Link: http://www.ajordison.co.uk/
Having work with Microsoft BASIC most of the time, I have the clear idea how strings work in BASIC, but few moments after starting to work with Atari BASIC my world feel apart! First, in Atari BASIC you have to declare string variables before using it, giving the maximum size that string will need and for that you have to…
Are you looking for some Commodore 64 technique? Bad timing! We are in the midst of Retrochallenge Summer, and for the month of July I’m all Atari! Today I managed to draw the playfield, which is going to be a view of the goal area in 3D-ish view: The first concept that I had to grasp is the Atari colours…
In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. The event is very much open to interpretation… individuals set there own challenges, which can range from programming to multimedia work; hardware restoration to exploring legacy networking… or just plain dicking around. It really doesn’t matter what…
I’ve learned few weeks ago about the Retrochallenge that happens every winter and summer, which is , according to its website, a loosely disorganized gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. The challenge will be held from July 1st to 31st. Excited about it, and with tons of interesting stuff to do but very little…
My choice for Demo of the Month for June was hard. The month is still in its first half, but I think we already have a clear winner: Cookie from Commodore is Awesome. It is a nice single file demo, with a great tune and great graphics. However, what makes me choose it is the clever coding, matching the lizard’s…
This month I spent quite some time selecting a demo to show, and it was a hard choice to make. I think one of the criteria I use to select the demo is when I think: “How that guy can make something like that!”. Based on that, my choice is Wonderland XII by Censor Design. Check the video below or…
CBM prg Studio v3.0.0 has been released. The main new feature in this version is support for the 65816 processor, both in the assembler and debugger. This was a large piece of work which is why there has been a much longer wait than usual. Other new features include: Some support for the VICE debugger (transfer of labels and breakpoints),…
